[AccessD] Access and SQL Server

David McAfee davidmcafee at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 15:08:47 CST 2011


:)

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Debbie <delam at zyterra.com> wrote:

> This reminds me of a story that may help:
>
> A professor in college was not a native English speaker. He took a class
> when he came to the US as a grad student. Being a class for science majors
> in English as a second language, physics words figured prominently. The
> instructor told them the difference between revolving and rotation. Rotation
> spins on an axis and revolving is moving the whole object around a central
> point.
> My professor asked why a revolver was named thus.
> The instructor (who was English) started muttering about bloody Americans.
>
> The moral: it may be proper English, but I will never be understood if I go
> into a gunshop and ask for a Rotator.
> Likewise, Jim will never be understood if he insists that an autonuber can
> never be a PK.
>
> Jim, you have met your revolver.
>
> Debbie.
>



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