On 10/8/17 12:45 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Andy Burns" wrote

| ASCII is standard in all uses
|
| Except when UK users want a pound sign £ and get a hash symbol # (yes I
| realise Americans may call that a pound sign)

But isn't your pound sign encoded in the ANSI 128+
range?

I don't say pound for #. It's used in things like price
signs on produce sometimes and people recognize
it in context as meaning pound, but I call it a hash
sign. Microsoft, with their maddening habit of misusing
language in marketing, hijacked it to mean "sharp".
Of course in music it means that, but they named
a programming language C# and then insisted it must
be pronounced "C sharp". It's a sort of passive
aggressive way of forcing people to describe the
language as superior. A play on C++.

That reminds me of a comedian I once saw talking
about pretensious use of language. He was complaining
about a flash-in-the-pan musical group named Sade, but
pronounced Shah-DAY: "Shah-DAY. Give me a break.
S-A-D-E doesn't spell Shah-DAY.

I'm not especially fond of Sade, but they were hardly a flash in the
pan. And that's really how to pronounce Sade Adu's name in Yoruba.

I spell my name
D-A-V-E, but I don't pronounce it "Bob".

He gets points for not saying "Da-VAY".

--
Jerry Friedman