8 Dec
2002
8 Dec
'02
8 p.m.
Steve Harris wrote:
Agreed, our German brethren seem to want to spell out
El-Ah-Dee-Es-Pee-Ah, which is pretty inconvenient.
OTOH I think Joern was amused when I insisted on pronouncing luss, as in
"can you just ls that directory".
- Steve
Yeah, when I went to buy a SCSI Zip disk a few years ago when I was
living in Austria, I was surprised
to learn that they pronounce SCSI Es-Tseh-Es-I (in other words, exactly
as the individual letters are pronounced
in German.) In the US we say "scuzzy". I kept saying "Haben Sie ein
scuzzy Zip-Laufwerk?" and getting strange
looks.
I've not heard anyone pronounce ls "luss" before, though.
-dgm