On 03/27/2011 11:25 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
On 03/27/11 19:52, Scott Ferguson wrote:
And Double-U Double-U - I know that is how it's supposed to be, but
I've spent years (delighting in) saying wuh wuh wuh (as in the
Magyar w).
How about combining all three of them into 'hexa-u?
Marc
On 2011-03-27 21:52:29 Scott Ferguson wrote:
And Double-U Double-U - I know that is how it's supposed to be, but
I've spent years (delighting in) saying wuh wuh wuh (as in the
Magyar w).
World Wide Web = 3 syllables.
www = double-u double-u double-u = 9 syllables.
Abbreviation FAIL!
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On Mar 28, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
World Wide Web = 3 syllables.
www = double-u double-u double-u = 9 syllables.
3dub works -- 2 syllables, and less work required from the mouth :-)
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On 28/03/11 16:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On 2011-03-27 21:52:29 Scott Ferguson wrote:
And Double-U Double-U - I know that is how it's supposed to be, but
I've spent years (delighting in) saying wuh wuh wuh (as in the
Magyar w).
World Wide Web = 3 syllables.
www = double-u double-u
On 03/27/2011 08:35 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
An apt-get update for Squeeze gives the following error message:-
dpkg: syntax error in file triggers file `/var/lib/dpkg/triggers//File'
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
The machine is a fairly standard KDE Squeeze i386 -
* On 2011 27 Mar 21:13 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
That's a double *slash*. The backslash (on my US small Enter
kb) is under the pipe.
We know this because typewriter keyboards only had one such key and
so Lower Left To Upper Right became the slash key. When IBM added
another key, that
On 28/03/11 13:12, Ron Johnson wrote:
You touched one of my pet peeves
Thanks - I assure you it was unintentional, I have now washed my hands
and disinfected the keyboard.
:-)
On 03/27/2011 08:35 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote:
snipped
Is the double backslashes a clue?
That's a double
On 28/03/11 13:26, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* On 2011 27 Mar 21:13 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
That's a double *slash*. The backslash (on my US small Enter
kb) is under the pipe.
We know this because typewriter keyboards only had one such key and
so Lower Left To Upper Right became the slash
On 03/27/11 19:52, Scott Ferguson wrote:
And Double-U Double-U - I know that is how it's supposed to be, but
I've spent years (delighting in) saying wuh wuh wuh (as in the
Magyar w).
How about combining all three of them into 'hexa-u?
Marc
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