OT: pronouncing www (was: Re: ... as a term)
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Bart Lateur wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:21:00 -0700 (PDT), Larry Wall wrote: If you want to save the world, come up with a better way to say "www". (And make it stick...) "The world"? This problem only exists in English! We pronounce it something similar to "way way way". Personally, I've always said it "dub dub dub". Dave
Re: OT: pronouncing www (was: Re: ... as a term)
The "www" in e.g., "www.netscape.com" is pronounced, IMO, in the same way as other useless, should-be-obvious punctuation. It's silent. Seems like something you should take up with RFC 819, or maybe with RFC 881, considering that they and their ramifying successors all seem to be in flagrant disagreement with you. In short, if foo.bar eq www.foo.bar, someone has high-jacked port 53. --tom
Re: OT: pronouncing www (was: Re: ... as a term)
"foo.bar" ne "www.foo.bar"
pronounce("foo.bar") eq pronounce("www.foo.bar")
As in, "Surf to www.perl.org and read the new ..."
sounds like
"Surf to perl dot org and read the new ..."
=Austin
--- Tom Christiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The "www" in e.g., "www.netscape.com" is pronounced, IMO, in
the same way as other useless, should-be-obvious punctuation.
It's silent.
Seems like something you should take up with RFC 819, or maybe with
RFC 881, considering that they and their ramifying successors all
seem to be in flagrant disagreement with you.
In short, if foo.bar eq www.foo.bar, someone has high-jacked port 53.
--tom
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Re: OT: pronouncing www (was: Re: ... as a term)
Thus it was written in the epistle of Austin Hastings,
"foo.bar" ne "www.foo.bar"
pronounce("foo.bar") eq pronounce("www.foo.bar")
As in, "Surf to www.perl.org and read the new ..."
sounds like
"Surf to perl dot org and read the new ..."
=Austin
Just to be absolutely certain, could you say that again, using www.perl.com
as the example?
Thanks,
Ted
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