Re: [libreoffice-users] HSLQLDB syntax

On 7/15/2013 12:25 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, anne-ology wrote:
>
> >       And just what is HSLQLDB  ;-)
This is not an acronym. It can't be pronounced as a word. (See dictionary
definition in URL below.)
> >       oh, memorizing acronyms seems to me a mighty complicated way to
> > organize one's thoughts ...
> >                wouldn't it be simpler - easier - to just state the
> > object(s) rather than leaving the listener trying to interpret what's 
> > being
> > meant by what's being said  ;-)
> >
> >      see -  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym
> >
> >       AND - did you happen to notice in that URL, this phenomenon only
> > started in 1943 ;-)
>
> do you know SPQR? or INRI? or Q.E.D.?
None of these are acronyms either.

Senatus PupulusQue Romanus: did you know that the Roman street catchbasins
and manhole covers are marked SPQR? Yes, today.

Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum

Quod Erat Demonstrandum

--doug


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