"Mark H. Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 08:09:37 EDT, IBM Mainframe Discussion List > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >A lighten-up topic for Friday which was, like, inspired by conversations with, > >like, my 8- and 11-year-old grandsons who are currently, like, visiting with us. > > >What if the dry, sometimes boring Principles of Operation had been written > >in the pop American style of spoken English? We might see something like the > >following: > > > >"LOAD, you know, ADDRESS?? [1] > >Like, the address specified by the, you know, X2, B2, and, you know, D2 > >fields is, like, actually placed in general register R1?? The address > >computation, like, totally follows the rules for address arithmetic?? In the > >24-bit addressing mode, the address is, you know, like totally placed in bit > >positions, like, 40-63, bits 32-39 are actually set to, like, zeros, and bits > >0-31 essentially remain unchanged?? Check it out, Dude! [3]" > > > >Thankfully, technical writers do not write the way people speak. > > > >Bill Fairchild > >Plainfield, IL > > > >[1] The double question mark indicates that the declarative statement, > >if spoken, should end with a rising tone of voice indicating extreme > >tentativeness > >[2] on the part of the speaker. > >[2] The speaker must never give any indication that a dogmatic value > >judgment has just been stated, such as a belief that the statement might > >be true. > >[3] An emphatic, non-tentative tonal quality is permitted if the statement > >ends with "Dude!". > > > > Fer shure.....like.....dude?! > Oh the doo-dah day..... > > Speaking of POPs (gray old guys like us), but Principles of Operations for this > discussion.....I remember a number of years ago when the two guys who write > the code of IOF found an error in their Assembler instructions after we reported > a problem. Upon futher research, they concluded that it was due to a > misreading of the "Principles of Operations" manual. So they sent us a sign... > ...a black & white pic of a Mickey Mouse head/face with a scowl, grimace > and frown on his face.....and below it, the caption read: > > "Thou Shall NOT Disobey the Principles of Operations." > > I keep it hanging in my office to this day. > > > ....mhyI >
I still remember from decades ago, when we still received the UCC7 source on microfiche, that the comment was full of nice and spicy American slang and pop-talk: "yeah, go back to ye olde home" (from a subroutine) and many similar phrases. Kees. ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
