| 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 |
My daughters, home from California for Thanksgiving, report that in the
Valley, the above-noted new orthography for "S.O." has arisen -- a
rather monstrous back-formation, imho.
I can only think of one other thing even vaguely like it -- and it's
50% longer: "S.O.S." which has taken on a meaning larger than the
original Morse Code "Save Our Ship."
Are there any others?
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| 1122.1 | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Thu Nov 24 1994 16:19 | 6 | |
Karaoke, as written in English and noted elsewhere in this conference.
(Oke comes from the Japanese pronuciation of okesutora.)
Anime, again when written in English.
OK?
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| 1122.2 | Trivium | SMURF::BINDER | vitam gustare | Mon Nov 28 1994 16:11 | 16 |
Re .0
S.O.S. never did mean "Save Our Ship" except in the minds of human
pattern recognizers. The real distress call is not supposed to be
given as three distinct International Code characters, thus:
... --- ...
It is supposed to be one symbol, thus:
...---...
It was chosen for being easy to remember, easy to transmit, and easy to
fish out of radio hash.
-dick
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| 1122.3 | Other "Monstrosities" | wook.mso.dec.com::mold.ogo.dec.com::lee | Wook like book with a W | Wed Sep 20 1995 23:44 | 2 |
What about "Emcee" or "Jaycee" or "Scuzzy"? Wook | |||||
| 1122.4 | Okesutora | GVPROD::BARTA | Gabriel Barta/CIO-GPS/Geneva | Fri Sep 22 1995 07:36 | 2 |
Re .1: I assume "okesutora" is orchestra, but I admit I missed it the first four times round. | |||||