| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
I have just learned why my SPRs used to be virtually ignored
(except for those that were really ignored, those that were
permanently paged out, and one that was answered properly).
I thought that SPR stood for Software Problem Report. Now,
where in the world could I have gotten that idea?
I have just learned that SPR stands for Software Performance
Report. We aren't supposed to submit them when software
doesn't perform; we're supposed to report when it DOES perform.
Silly me.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 882.1 | Silly Personal Request | SONATA::DUBIE | My name isn't DUBIE! | Fri Apr 26 1991 16:57 | 20 |
According to my acronym database, it's South Pacific Region (of course,
I just ADDED it to my acronym database this morning -- see
GBMMKT::ACRONYM Note #25) and it will appear in _digital today_ Volume
II, Issue 14.
But a more important question -- at least, to me -- is there any
corporate Style Sheet? Specifically, how is "on line" spelled?
According to Random House and Webster's Collegiate, it's "on-line"
while the AP Stylebook, 'Computer Terms' chapter says "online". MY
style guide (based on the SOFTbase style guide says "online" as an
adjective and "on line" as an adverb.
CD-ROM is hyphenated according to AP but I've seen it as CDROM and CD
ROM.
Is there any place to check proper Digital usage?
Thanks
Ben Day
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| 882.2 | POWDML::SATOW | Fri Apr 26 1991 19:51 | 10 | ||
A few product announcements ago, KO went on a tangent, and told the following anecdote, in a very sarcastic tone of voice (paraphrase, not a quote): A while ago we had a great deal of trouble figuring out whether to spell "disk" d_i_s_k or d_i_s_c. But then our friends at IBM, after a great deal of discussion among some very important people, issued a document telling us the correct spelling. We will always be grateful to them. Clay | |||||
| 882.3 | 8^) Isn't it? 8^) | AYOU86::ISMITH | Off to Severance City | Mon Apr 29 1991 14:13 | 5 |
And the correct way is...
DASD
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| 882.4 | DECWET::GETSINGER | Eric Getsinger | Sat May 04 1991 02:35 | 1 | |
CDROM and online. At least according to our Corporate Style Guide. | |||||
| 882.5 | And the Corporate Style Guide can be obtained from: | SUPER::MATTHEWS | Tue May 21 1991 00:15 | 6 | |
CLOSET::W12_:[CDH.PUBLIC]APR91_CORPSTYLE.PS
(At least that's the location announced to the organization I work
for.)
Val
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