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| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: tooki on December 22, 2022, 03:56:23 pm --- --- Quote from: themadhippy on December 22, 2022, 01:08:22 pm --- --- Quote ---I wonder which came first, SCSI or SCPI ("skippy")? --- End quote --- skippys been bouncing around since 1968 --- End quote --- Every source I’ve found says the SCPI standard was published in 1990. --- End quote --- Yeah, I'm old enough to get his references.. |
| TimFox:
--- Quote from: ebastler on December 22, 2022, 03:29:53 pm --- --- Quote from: TimFox on December 22, 2022, 02:54:52 pm ---I reject the following syllogism: "An acronym is a specific type of abbreviation. Therefore, all abbreviations are acronyms." --- End quote --- That's not a syllogism but a fallacy in my book. --- End quote --- That's why I rejected it. |
| ebastler:
--- Quote from: TimFox on December 22, 2022, 04:42:47 pm --- --- Quote from: ebastler on December 22, 2022, 03:29:53 pm ---That's not a syllogism but a fallacy in my book. --- End quote --- That's why I rejected it. --- End quote --- I understand that you don't subscribe to the wrong conclusion. But I found it funny that you called it a syllogism, after harping about careful use of words and dropping an above-average number of greek and latin loan words. ::) |
| TimFox:
I stand corrected: a syllogism requires two propositions and a conclusion. If this fallacy were worth defending, I would have to construct it differently, splitting the first sentence into two propositions. (PS: almost everything in modern English is a loan word, giving it hybrid vigor.) |
| IanB:
--- Quote from: ebastler on December 22, 2022, 01:43:07 pm ---That one is easy -- "ull-dee" and "leedl". :) But I assume an anglicized pronunciation is normally used in the UK and US? --- End quote --- Yes, but probably a bit similar, for instance "al-di" and "lid-l". Unlike, say, BMW. |
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