>-----Original Message----- >From: John Woodgate [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 2:01 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: docopocoss > > > >I read in !emc-pstc that Price, Ed <[email protected]> wrote (in ><[email protected]>) about >'docopocoss' on Tue, 5 Nov 2002: > >>In view of the elegance of "docopocoss", drawing & quartering >comes to mind. > >Look, I didn't invent 'date of cessation of presumption of >conformity of >the superseded standard' - that's probably down to someone in the >Commission's legal department. I just balked at typing it out over and >over again, so I just copied the 'doa', 'dop', 'dow' system. The >initials might have produced an even less elegant 'word'. >--
Sorry, John. Try to remember that linguistic pioneers sometimes catch an arrow. I had also done a Google search, and found your name at the top of a very short list of references. The first thing about getting a newly minted word into general usage is to have a snappy pronunciation. Let's take a hint from Spanish, and accent the second syllable. That yields an English-friendly doh coh' poh caws. Maybe we could come to admire DOCOPOCOSS more if we could rhyme it with something. Hmmm: DOCOPOCOSS Don't forget to floss A dirty double-cross Help an old lady across A rock with no moss Here comes the boss And on that note, I realize I better get back to work. Regards, Ed Ed Price [email protected] Electromagnetic Compatibility Lab Cubic Defense Systems San Diego, CA USA 858-505-2780 (Voice) 858-505-1583 (Fax) Military & Avionics EMC Is Our Specialty Shake-Bake-Shock - Metrology - Reliability Analysis ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
