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I keep writing things down everywhere: OSX Notes, org-mode, Evernote, paper. Having it in one (public) GitHub repo is a great idea!
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I blame that I've been writing "SQL" all day and have unconsciously associated three letter non English words and "Is acronym". (Although I guess "git" is a word, although not typically part of my colloquial vocabulary... Maybe if I was a curmudgeon ~50 years ago as opposed to being a curmudgeon now) Regardless, your pedantry is excused :)
> I blame that I've been writing "SQL" all day and have unconsciously associated three letter non English words and "Is acronym". Hyperpedantically, "SQL" is an initialism, but not an acronym.
> Hyperpedantically, "SQL" is an initialism, but not an
> acronym
OED's first entry on "acronym, n":
> A group of initial letters used as an abbreviation for
> a name or expression, each letter or part being
> pronounced separately; an initialism (such as ATM, TLS)
> A word formed from the initial letters of other words
> or (occas.) from the initial parts of syllables taken
> from other words, the whole being pronounced as a single
> word (such as NATO, RADA)
> The use of initials; a significative group of initial
> letters. Now spec. a group of initial letters used as
> an abbreviation for a name or expression, each letter
> or part being pronounced separately
This is great. As an extension, I was discussing with a friend a while ago how great Stackoverflow is at capturing the contents of expert's brains. Is there a way to achieve that on a broader scale without requiring the question-asking side of things? Say you're a lab scientist and you have a small trick or bit of informal insight, how could you be prompted in the right way to share it?
Stack Exchange sites would love you to ask the question and then answer it yourself. It's not exactly primary use-case though so I suppose it's not obviously acceptable behaviour.
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> I blame that I've been writing "SQL" all day and have unconsciously associated three letter non English words and "Is acronym". Hyperpedantically, "SQL" is an initialism, but not an acronym.
> Hyperpedantically, "SQL" is an initialism, but not an > acronym I really wish people would stop posting this - I feel like I only ever see it posted here, too. OED's first entry on "acronym, n": > A group of initial letters used as an abbreviation for > a name or expression, each letter or part being > pronounced separately; an initialism (such as ATM, TLS) OED's second entry on "acronym, n": > A word formed from t…
Helps both commit the information to memory and help others in the future. Who said blogging had to be long form posts anyway?
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Perhaps even more pedantically, SQL is actually an abbreviation of an acronym. It was originally conceived as SEQUEL for Structured English QUEry Language[0], only being abbreviated to SQL for legal purposes (SEQUEL was already trademarked). For this, and sheer convenience, I take the stance that it should always be pronounced as "sequel" rather than pronouncing each letter. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#Hist…
So, on top of this, they have since decided SQL is no longer Structured Query Language--it's just SQL.
I skimmed the Wikipedia article and didn't notice any mention of removing the initialism. I did find a note that the original language standard did define the "es queue el" pronunciation, but since no one is standards compliant anyway, I think I'll still stick with "sequel" (:
Git looks to be an awesome idea. Thanks for your efforts.
This will filter all commits (ie. lines changed by the commit) by the REGEX and report back the log for those.
With -S, commits with equal number of matches in added and removed lines are ignored.