Mispronouncing acronyms

[Tony Duell]

> The other one I used to here about ASCII, was when a program crashed 
> with a corrupted text screen it would be described as "my screen was 
> full of ASCII characters" Well duuuhhh what do you think the normal ones 
> are(1). Actually more often than not it was full of extended ASCII....

I think I'd be more likely to say 'Myt screen was full of non-ASCII 
characters', meaning (in this case) ones from the IBM PC exteneded 
character set with bit 7 set.

ASCII is a 7 bit code, after all..

-tony