Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:50:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: OLOCA: YANALATEYHSMBSI pronounciation In-Reply-To: <3F967423.8040809@timesys.com> Message-ID: References: <3F967423 DOT 8040809 AT timesys DOT com> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Please don't send personal email with Cygwin questions and suggestions. All Cygwin-related correspondence should go to the main Cygwin list at . More below. On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, La Monte H.P. Yarroll wrote: > In http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#YANALATEYHSMBSI you wrote: > > "Don't try to pronounce it. Just... don't" > > Clearly a challenge if ever I heard one. This is a remarkably simple > acronym to pronounce: > > YANA-LATEY(almost LADY)-HISSEM-BISSEE Thanks for the suggestion. Well, let's see how well it bodes with the Cygwin community. If it gets accepted, this might go into the OLOCA. I wish you sent the original to the Cygwin list, so I could link to it in that case... Oh, well. > IANAL, but I play a Linguist on television. IANALBIPALOT? Na-ah... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/