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reminds me of some of the first commands i learned in unix
a string -- look, touch, unzip, mount, gasp, yes, unmount, zip, sleep. (it might have been longer..)
i didn't really ever learn unix-- just hung out with a bunch of unix nerds--i was complete accepted at the time.. so i guess i am, or am close enought to pass for a nerd.
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and i forgot to mention, the command Yes, just repeats-- again and again. i forget the command to stop it. oh and now i remember.. come is a valid unix command..
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Here it is Sunday morning and two of my plants are hanging over and all the rest are potted! Tsk Tsk.
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Tsk Tsk.
Where does that phrase come form, and how is it pronounced?
Apologies for a possible yart. This may have been discussed in a May 4 thread, but I'm not picking up the May 8 postings - perhaps I mis-search. In any event, that discussion seemed to focus more on pronunciation than derivation.
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...or as a liguist might pontificate, "a labio-dental implosive /t/"  BTW, today I thought of the ideal 'welcome' mat for a linguaphile - it would have its name printed on it, and it would be ONOMAT 
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Cute, aunt mav! But...is it, "Oh, no--guests!", or "The guests are ON A MAT"?
And I still say that tsk, tsk, is pronounced tisk, tisk!
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UNIX commands also include: kill truss nice strip finger more head tail uptime and whoami. By choosing appropriate variable names, one could make quite a story. We used to name variables so we could write endless loops as:
Do until the-cows-come-home
Do until hell-freezes-over
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And I still say that tsk, tsk, is pronounced tisk, tisk! Thanks, but looking for more.
MaxQuse me: does anyone have info on the derivation of "tsk tsk" (or is it "tsk, tsk", with a comma)?
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