[thechat] who thought *this* was a good idea?

Joel Canfield Joel at spinhead.com
Fri Feb 22 00:10:01 CST 2002


>>Yeah that's how I pronounce it (ess cue ell). Know of 1 person who
>>calls it sequal and that's a lecturer at Uni so he must be wrong!

I'm a chameleon. When I'm around *nix/MySql folks, I say each letter. Around
Windows folks I say sequel 'cause that's how all my Windows associates say
it.

>
>Most everyone where I work, pronounces it sequel.  My boss
>alternates between sequel and ess cue ell, but they all say,
>"sequel server."
>
>I got 24 on the color test.  PC here with a Viewsonic Graphics
>series monitor.

17. Got a Mitsubishi Diamond Plus. Wish they'd tell you which ones you got
wrong.

>
>More likely attributed to my color matching course at NYSID
>and years spent in the garment industry shading swatches.  My
>favorite color from back in those days was aubergene.  I'd
>never heard of it, and still don't know what an aubergene is,
>but the color is an eggplant purple.

Um, isn't 'aubergine' French for 'eggplant' ?

joel


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