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See now this is my kind of acronym. Things like "gnu's not unix" are too arbitrary; you can replace the 'g' with anything and still get an acronym that works. X
by z1mm32m4n 11y ago
See now this is my kind of acronym. Things like "gnu's not unix" are too arbitrary; you can replace the 'g' with anything and still get an acronym that works. XINU is nice, elegant, and unambiguous.
- nmikhailov 11y agoSame with WINE - Wine Is Not an Emulator
- swsieber 11y agoHow about: WINE - Wine is no emulator?
- mongol 11y agoI don't see the difference..?
- krick 11y agoHe is pointing out that leaving out "is" in "GNU is not Unix" is pretty lousy way to make an acronym (if that could be called acronym at all), as "is" is as much word as "not" or "Unix" are and omitting it is arbitrary. It isn't a preposition or something.
- nailer 11y agoRemoving one and two letter words from acronyms is commonplace.
- krick 11y agoYeah, you mean prepositions, which "is" isn't. I don't really care, btw, just clarifying what parent (probably) tried to say.
- nailer 11y ago> Yeah, you mean prepositions No I don't. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Numerals_and_constituent_words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Numerals_and_constitue... and also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette
- credit_guy 11y agoMaybe he means that Xinu is Unix backwards.
- such_a_casual 11y agoIt's a recursive acronym that is also UNIX backwards: XINU Is Not Unix
- mtgx 11y agoIt's also UNIX written in reverse.
- bcook 11y agoI completely missed that. Now my OCD's thirst has been slaked. Thanks.
- asdfaoeu 11y agoGINX is not UNIX?
- aceperry 11y agoGenuino is not UNIX
- colordrops 11y agoHmm, they look like identical forms of wordplay, with GNU having the added advantage of being an actual word.