Mispronouncing acronyms
Sridhar Ayengar
ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Aug 20 18:57:03 CDT 2010
Chuck Guzis wrote:
>> I pronounce a wide variety of IBM mainframe mnemonics. For example
>> BALR -> Bal-err.
>
> I'd start to worry if you began pronouncing CDC 6000 CPU memonics...
To be honest, the only reason I don't is because I've never written that
kind of code on a daily basis. No matter how unpronounceable the
mnemonic, I guarantee that, after a while at least, I'd start
pronouncing them.
Peace... Sridhar
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