Our Sister

[Bill Hicks via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 28 May 2016 at 04:31:22 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 27 May 2016 at 02:11, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d 
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> I've been working on RCStr (endearingly pronounced "Our 
>> Sister"),
>
> Ah, I totally skipped over this thread...
>
> Wow... this really doesn't work in any accent I'm close to, but 
> I can
> hear it if I imagine you saying it ;)
> If I said RCStr, it sounds like 'are'-'see'-strrr, but 'our 
> sister'
> would be 'hour'-sistə... isn't it strange that word recognition 
> seems
> to work pretty much reliably down a sliding scale until an 
> arbitrary
> point where it just drops off. There's not a lot of fuzzy area 
> in the
> middle.

The joke is revealed when you consider the fact that there are no 
females in this community, let alone sisters.  A kind of joke 
that's funny only to certain types of men.

Now let's get back to fixing things before the world finds out 
that D is full of holes.