Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder5.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Making Forth official Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 20:16:04 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <528e0962$0$26909$e4fe514c@dreader37.news.xs4all.nl> <52c349f6$0$9249$e4fe514c@dreader35.news.xs4all.nl> <7xfvp87h1f.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <52c42262$0$25047$e4fe514c@dreader37.news.xs4all.nl> <2014Jan2.184654@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <7xiou2drk3.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:27613 On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:03:56 -0500, Paul Rubin wrote: > anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes: >> the pan. And the next flash-in-the-pan might use .4th or .frt or .fth > > I really don't like .frt, which always makes me think of "fart". .frt makes me think of "fort", and .fth makes me think of "fifth" ... Do you really think 3 letters is going to be representative? RP