[OT]Silly weekend LC poll

Devin Asay devin_asay at byu.edu
Sat Aug 25 15:35:51 EDT 2018


“Care” and “loke”. Habits from way back in the HyperCard days.  

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> On Aug 25, 2018, at 1:28 PM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
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> 
> CHAR  rhymes with far
> LOC rhymes with lock.
> 
> This is at least how i pronounce them. But i am native German and not native English.
> 
> Btw.: due to the fact that LC language is english like,  you should see my comments  and variable names in my scripts.
> They are mixed, some comments are in english some in german, even in one and the same script. It could be that i use tDate in one script and in another  one tDatum as date var.
> But that´s an other story.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
>> Am 25.08.2018 um 21:07 schrieb J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
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>> I wonder how people pronounce two common LC abbreviations. In print you never notice but in real life I always have to translate what they're talking about.
>> 
>> How do you pronounce:
>> 
>> CHAR
>> Rhymes with "care"
>> Sounds like smoldering wood
>> 
>> LOC
>> Rhymes with "smoke"
>> Sounds like a deadbolt
>> 
>> I suppose there are others.
>> -- 
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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