Why do people think it's cute to invent their own phonetic alphabets? They always manage to find pairs that don't distinguish well - was that b as in beer or v as in veer? Mock or nock? Fault or salt?
Someone spent a lot of time avoiding that problem when they developed the standard one - why not use it?
Hierarchy. The word you're looking for is "hierarchy". If you don't believe me, walk it round the block and see who salutes or some other tired 90s cliche. Mmmmmkay?
"The word "nazi" indeed started out as an abbreviation..." Thank you for admitting I was right.
I didn't. As you're so obviously an expert on grammar you'll no doubt understand what tenses are. They differentiate when an action takes place. Hence you have a concept of time and ought to be aware that "started out as" != "is".
Is an apostrophe necessary? No, but it is ACCEPTABLE
Maybe it's acceptable to people who want to write like greengrocers. But if you don't want to look like a gibbon who thinks an apostrophe is an advance warning that an "s" is coming, you'd do better to leave it out and avoid the ambiguity.
So what is "pizza" an abbreviation of? Or is that link totally pointless? The word "nazi" indeed started out as an abbreviation but it's become an acceptable word in its own right. There is no need for the apostrophe.
choose 2 or 3 people and send them to take a course and certificate on the technology (some kind of Linux administrator cert. on http://www.lpi.org/ [lpi.org] for example) and then arrange some time to let these guys teach the other people in your place.
I wonder how long it will before copyright law gets extended to make that illegal?
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Ah, but who made Xenu?
Why do people think it's cute to invent their own phonetic alphabets? They always manage to find pairs that don't distinguish well - was that b as in beer or v as in veer? Mock or nock? Fault or salt?
Someone spent a lot of time avoiding that problem when they developed the standard one - why not use it?
Regards,
Bill.
Er, taking your pr0n to the office and/or re-downloading it there sounds like a potential career limitation exercise.
Unless the dog can pull the chain, you'd only be delaying the inevitable.
Humans: NOOOOOO0000ES!
"He never really said that" posts in 5,4,3...
That's no cat!
But which is cause and which is effect?
So what is "pizza" an abbreviation of? Or is that link totally pointless? The word "nazi" indeed started out as an abbreviation but it's become an acceptable word in its own right. There is no need for the apostrophe.
No, he eats until the local warlord comes along, steals his animals, burns his crops and rapes him with a bayonet.
I don't think so, where's the parentheses?
[note to self - patent that]
I could see a use for it (or a derivative based on it) for warehouse type applications.