Toggle navigation
Collections
Fun
Jokes
Fortune
Photo
Nicknames
Blog
ﻮﺑﻻگ
Iran
Good Authors, Too, Who Once Knew Better Words Now Only Use Four-letter Words Writing Prose .
Home
›
Fortune Cookies
›
Quotations By Famous People
Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose . . .
Anything goes.
-- Cole Porter
Related:
Cursor: An expert in four-letter words...
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I don't. -- Cole Porte
TLA /T-L-A/ n. [Three-Letter Acronym] 1. Self-describing abbreviation for a species with which computing terminology is infested.
2. Any confusing acronym. Examples include MCA, FTP, SNA, CPU, MMU, SCCS, DMU, FPU, NNTP, TLA....
TLA: /T-L-A/ [Three-Letter Acronym] n. 1. Self-describing abbreviation for a species with which computing terminology is infested.
2. Any confusing acronym. Examples include MCA, FTP, SNA, CPU, MMU, SCCS, DMU, FPU, NNTP, TLA....
You may be redneck... if all of your four-letter words are two syllables.
A lot of software developers are seduced by the old "80/20" rule.
It seems to make a lot of sense: 80% of the people use 20% of the features....
In my opinion I think that an author when he is writing shouldn't get into the habit of making use of too many unnecessary words that he does not really need.
-- Writing Rule 16...
When I was in college, there were a lot of four-letter words you couldn't say in front of girls.
Now you can say them. But you can't say "girls"....
Personally, I'd have a far better time writing scripts if I had some more creative shells to script in.
.. ASMsh: The Assembly shell. Commands include MOV, SHL, SHR, JNE, etc....