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• The meaning of PINA (Score:1)

  by mr_bean (3802)

  Perl Is Not (an) Acronym?
  
  I don't get it. What does PINA mean?
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Aristotle (5147)

    Who was talking about PINA? :-)
    • Re:The meaning of PINA (Score:1)

      by mr_bean (3802) on 2007.07.17 8:24 (#56302) Journal

      PINA is not a pathetic excuse for a real language? :-)
      
      That's the best antronym I've seen.

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      • Re: (Score:1)

        by mr_bean (3802)

        I went looking for where I found the backronym in the previous post. It was probably on the exim list from 2003. But I see some funny stuff with the same one.
        
        A funny list of backronyms and reinterpreted acronyms.
        URL: http://meta.uncyclomedia.org/wiki/UnSource:List_of_computing_and_technology_acro nyms [uncyclomedia.org]
        
        A zany rewriting of the history of perl at Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia:
        URL: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Perl [uncyclopedia.org]
        
        With some image alteration introducing perl:
        http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Image:Crest_ [uncyclopedia.org]
      • Re: (Score:2)

        by gabor (1626)

        Have you tried to look it up in your nearby Hungarian dictionary [freedict.com]?
        

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        • The meaning of Aho in Japanese (Score:1)

          by mr_bean (3802)

          Ho! Ho! That's pretty hot. I expected it to have reference to the male, rather than female sex.
          
          Another funny translation is of Alfred V Aho of awk fame's name into Japanese. Aho means 'idiot' in Japanese.