[OT]Silly weekend LC poll

[Colin Holgate]

I’m with Matthias on this. Some abbreviations are their own thing, and you don’t want to reminisce over where the short version came from. LOC is spelled LOC, not Loke, and CHAR is not spelled as Chare or Care.

But it’s your choice, I don’t char.


> On Aug 25, 2018, at 3:35 PM, Devin Asay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> “Care” and “loke”. Habits from way back in the HyperCard days.  
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Aug 25, 2018, at 1:28 PM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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>:
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> -- 
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