[OT]Silly weekend LC poll

[Richmond Mathewson]

I tend to name variables in Scots or Bulgarian, mainly because calling a 
field "field" (whichever way you pronounce it)
throws a "bluey" with LiveCode (and I have no way of knowing LiveCode's 
internal pronunciation of these terms).

Richmond.

On 25/8/2018 10:27 pm, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode 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.
>> -- 
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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