From: "Marc Serra" <mad93@majomo.com>
To: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Re: cvs commit: quick-samba-howto.xml
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 07:30:40 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40380.130.206.42.45.1128317440.squirrel@webmail.majomo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4340B6EC.7020100@gentoo.org>
I suggested the change because i pronounce it as a word itself, Fak (never
heard it pronounced diferent, but here isn't too much people speaking
english ><). Sorry, i'm not a native english speaker, as you can see :P
> Shyam Mani wrote:
>> Curtis Napier wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Yes indeed, ciaran is correct. You go by the "sound" not by the
>>>spelling. That's why we say "an honor" instead of "a honor" (the h is
>>>silent). But in the case of FAQ he is incorrect because it's pronounced
>>>fa-ack not ef-ack. Silly en_GB speakers. :-)
>>
>>
>> Ummm, we pronounce it af eff a que. Not Fak. It is an acronym and eff a
>> que is how you say it :) So, he's right and it is an FAQ.
>>
>>
>>>http://www.drgrammar.org/faqs/#36
>>
>>
>> And from the above site...
>>
>> According to The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style, "The
>> indefinite article a is used before words beginning with a consonant
>> sound, including /y/ and /w/ sounds. The other form, an, is used before
>> words beginning with a vowel sound. Hence, a European country, a Ouija
>> board, a uniform, an FBI agent...
>>
>> We say Eff Bee Eye agent, not Fubby agent or EffBee or EffBye, right? So
>> it's Eff A Que :) not fack or you know where I'm going :p
>>
>
> No, when you use the first letters of a series of words that is going to
> be pronounced as a series of letters like F.B.I then that is an
> abbreviation or an initialism. An acronym is the first letters of a
> series of words put together to form a new word. FAQ is an acronym not
> an abbreviation so it is pronounced as a word not as the letters F.A.Q..
> If it was supposed to be pronounced as a series of letters it would be
> written F.A.Q. but it isn't.
>
> http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9354382?query=acronym&ct=
> http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=acronym&x=0&y=0
> http://www.answers.com/topic/acronym
> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/acronym
> http://www.answers.com/acronym&r=67
>
> This is silly. Just leave it up to the person who writes the doc. What
> difference does it make to any of us? Rane already changed it and
> changing it back would be redundant.
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2005-10-02 23:26 ` [gentoo-doc] Re: cvs commit: quick-samba-howto.xml Alin Dobre
2005-10-02 23:44 ` Ioannis Aslanidis
2005-10-02 23:55 ` Łukasz Damentko
2005-10-03 1:07 ` Curtis Napier
2005-10-03 2:39 ` Jack Dark
2005-10-03 4:14 ` Curtis Napier
2005-10-03 4:21 ` Shyam Mani
2005-10-03 4:43 ` Curtis Napier
2005-10-03 5:30 ` Marc Serra [this message]
2005-10-03 6:02 ` Shyam Mani
2005-10-03 8:24 ` Ioannis Aslanidis
2005-10-03 13:06 ` Peter Humphrey
2005-10-04 2:00 ` Jack Dark
2005-10-03 12:59 ` Peter Humphrey
2005-10-03 4:17 ` Shyam Mani
2005-10-03 13:18 ` Peter Humphrey
2005-10-04 16:15 ` Sven Vermeulen
2005-10-04 21:58 ` Xavier Neys
2005-10-05 15:48 ` Sven Vermeulen
2005-10-05 9:15 Trembleau, Alain
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