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Do *you* pronounce the L in SOLDER ? (In the USA?)

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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")?
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skippys been bouncing around since 1968

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Every source I’ve found says the SCPI standard was published in 1990.

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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."

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That's not a syllogism but a fallacy in my book.

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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.

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That's why I rejected it.

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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?

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Yes, but probably a bit similar, for instance "al-di" and "lid-l". Unlike, say, BMW.

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