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My SO works on a project with leeeeeegacy software that still uses an RDBMS/OS combination (yes, it's one product. don't remember the name) in French. `SELECTI
by black_puppydog 7y ago
My SO works on a project with leeeeeegacy software that still uses an RDBMS/OS combination (yes, it's one product. don't remember the name) in French.
`SELECTIONNER * DE clients TRIER PAR ...`
- usrusr 7y agoSo, an SMBDR/SO? ;) (sorry for the bad joke, I'm just kind of fond of French acronym mangling. The vocabulary is similar enough to English to to keep the letters the same in many cases, only the order is off. It's bit like verlan for the rest of the world)
- black_puppydog 7y agoYeah it's amazing. My favorite is maybe "UTC" [1] in which case the French and English versions clashed so hard that they formed a full new acronym that makes no sense in either language. :D [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#Ety...