in reply to Re: Perl in Fall
in thread Perl in Fall

Somewhere during my young and innocent BASIC days, annoyed at the lengthy (even more so in German) "dollar sign", I picked up the habit of pronouncing $ as "string". I have never been able to shake it since. :)

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re: Re^2: Perl in Fall
by batkins (Chaplain) on Jan 16, 2003 at 11:31 UTC
    same here, aristotle. :)

    sometimes i even find myself pronouncing it in UNC shares: \\server\share$ ("share string")

Re^3: Perl in Fall
by Reverend Phil (Pilgrim) on Jan 21, 2003 at 16:13 UTC
    I have not developed via habit a wonderful shortcut for dollar sign (or just dollar). I think if I'm going to give it the verbal chop, I'll try training myself to use Buck. You know, buck as in dollar. If I can knock it to one syllable, I'll get more ! for my speaking $.
    =)

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