[linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)

David Olofson david at olofson.net
Sun Dec 8 19:34:01 UTC 2002


On Sunday 08 December 2002 23.10, Steve Harris wrote:
[...]
> > My personal preference is for something that doesn't have to be
> > spelled to be spoken.  I know most people say VSTi as 'visty'.
>
> Agreed, our German brethren seem to want to spell out
> El-Ah-Dee-Es-Pee-Ah, which is pretty inconvenient.

Same in Sweden - although we tend not to spell "acronyms" that long...

Anyway, that's another advantage of TLAs; just three letters to 
spell, if you're into that. :-)


> OTOH I think Joern was amused when I insisted on pronouncing luss,
> as in "can you just ls that directory".

*hehe*


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