Re: My way of remembering the nmcli initialism

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On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 6:17 AM ToddAndMargo via users
<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2020-08-02 23:39, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > On 08/03/2020 12:24 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> >> It never occurred to me for the longest time that
> >> that was what it was an initialism for.  I thought
> >> is was some funny name like grep for the longest
> >> time.
> >
> > You mean Global Regular Expression search and Print?
>
> Holy crap!  Someone really wanted it to say GREP.
> Hmmm.    GRESP stinks
>
> My favorite is Common Unix Scanning System.  But
> they chose "sane" instead.  Huh.  I wonder what
> they do not like about "CUSS"?
>
> :-)

      Of the acronyms, one of my favourites is GNU: Gnu is Not Unix.
Now, if you want to see  silliness in action, check US military ones:
they love them acronyms because they think it makes them sound clever,
and want them to sound badass. So they come with a few which are made
by forcing together words that have no business being near each other
when using normal words would have made more sense.
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