BE: as wonky as it gets

[John Bailey]

Great find, Monte.

"In unix, the "tilde" (i.e. the grapheme ~, ascii U+007E) is a shorter
way of referring to the user's home directory in pathnames."

007 again... but that's probably just a coincidence.

"And "home", aside from being where the heart is, is the term for the
unix directory associated with each user."

Nothing to do with BE.

"But "CD tilde home"? On a standard unix system, as of 2001 as well as
today, the command "CD" will get a response like

-bash: CD: command not found"

Bleeding Edge isn't the 2013 equivalent of Sinatra warbling "New York,
New Yoooork", I guess.

No home.


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:
> Details of IT jargon usage: spoilers for 294, 404
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> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=7420#more-7420
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