[tdwg-tag] namespaces
Richard Pyle
deepreef at bishopmuseum.org
Mon Nov 15 20:00:14 CET 2010
> Its glorious advantage is that its mnemonic and pronunciation
> are "mermaid". mrmd is far more evocative than dwc ("dwick"
> too close to "dweeb", or worse), ncd (sounds like somebody
> stole something), or sdd (which we continually have to
> explain is not meant to be a homonym for the acronym of
> Sexually Transmitted Disease).
This paragraph *COMPLETELY* made my morning! Thank you!
Rich
(who is both a dweeb, and who has a first name which, decades ago, was
commonly substituted with a word that rhymes with "dwick")
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