30 Sep
2010
30 Sep
'10
12:27 p.m.
On 9/30/10 3:17 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Does the "evolution" of language due to imprecision and "not giving a
shit" legitimately apply to proper names?
If so, I'm going to go read some more works of William Shake-a-Wanker.
Hey, if you knew who I was talking about, it must be ok, right?
It's The X Window System, or X, or X11. Period.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
The
correction's appreciated - I knew it was wrong, but was being lazy in
looking up the right terminology :-)
The term "X Windows", as "improper" as it is, is very widely used
and
understood.