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I don't see the difference..?
by mongol 11y ago
I 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