[OT] Re: [libreoffice-users] HSLQLDB syntax

On Sun, 14 Jul 2013, Doug wrote:

> 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.)

the definition says:

-----
 : a word (as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or 
letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound 
term; also : an abbreviation (as FBI) formed from initial letters : 
initialism 
-----

I'm missing the part about being pronounced as a word.

> > >       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.

interesting; never been to Rome, sorry to say.

> Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum

I just read today that according to one author, this was supposed to 
be a description of his 'crime', viz. insurrection against Roman 
authority.

anyway, off topic; my apologies.

F.

> Quod Erat Demonstrandum
>
> --doug

--
Felmon Davis

What a strange game.  The only winning move is not to play.
                -- WOP, "War Games"

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