On Sunday 08 December 2002 23.10, Steve Harris wrote: [...] > > My personal preference is for something that doesn't have to be > > spelled to be spoken. I know most people say VSTi as 'visty'. > > Agreed, our German brethren seem to want to spell out > El-Ah-Dee-Es-Pee-Ah, which is pretty inconvenient.
Same in Sweden - although we tend not to spell "acronyms" that long... Anyway, that's another advantage of TLAs; just three letters to spell, if you're into that. :-) > OTOH I think Joern was amused when I insisted on pronouncing luss, > as in "can you just ls that directory". *hehe* //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate .- The Return of Audiality! --------------------------------. | Free/Open Source Audio Engine for use in Games or Studio. | | RT and off-line synth. Scripting. Sample accurate timing. | `---------------------------> http://olofson.net/audiality -' .- M A I A -------------------------------------------------. | The Multimedia Application Integration Architecture | `----------------------------> http://www.linuxdj.com/maia -' --- http://olofson.net --- http://www.reologica.se ---