General Tee-esS-Oh is a favorite IT dad joke around here. (Never in front of a waiter.) BTW that dish has nothing to do with the historical general nor with Hunan, his home base.
On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 10:22 AM Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 09:37:00 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote: > > >Newbie auditors are notorious for 'spelling out' abbreviations that over > >the decades have become actual names. And yes, idiocy is only one > >consequence. The result can be gibberish. > > > A long time favorite is a local newscaster who read a story attributing > a DC-10 crash to a failure of an "eh-eff-tee cargo hatch." > > >My favorite basket case is 'TSO', which was in ancient history Time > Sharing > >Option. For as long as anyone can remember, TSO has not involved 'time > >sharing' in any meaningful way. > > > What would you say? "Time Slicing"? "Divided Property Ownership"? > > > ... Nor is it remotely optional. Spelling out > >the words contributes nothing to any discussion. > > > So you pronounce it as in "General TSO's Chicken"? > > -- gil > -- Skip Robinson 323-715-0595 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
