Video titles and Greek letters
SmashTV said:
Once again, Francois, you've struck gold! Another outstanding effort to add to the collection. Only 21 more videos to go, then youve done the whole alphabet!! Tally Ho!!!
Actually, it's more like 19 videos. The letters in my video titles are Greek letters, and the Greek alphabet has only 24. There used to be more, and to my knowledge there was once as many as 28 (maybe more, for all I know). But a few were dropped since then.
So far the tickling videos I have are:
Last Laugh Alpha
Last Laugh Beta
Last Laugh Gamma
Last Laugh Delta
Last Laugh Epsilon
If I were to manage to release enough videos to cover the whole alphabet, I'd eventually have Last Laugh Omega. But I seriously doubt I'll ever get there. Most likely I'll never run out of Greek letters. If I did reach Omega and needed more, I guess I could use the obsolete letters, though they wouldn't be in the same order as they initialy were (for instance, digamma used to be between epsilon and zeta). In any case, I'm more worried about running out of sufficiently unique colors for the labels than running out of letters. But I don't think either issue will be a problem in practice.
One problematic issue I didn't think of when I first decided to use Greek letters is the acronym system I often use. I mean LLA, LLB, LLG, etc. In most cases it works just fine. But starting with Last Laugh Eta, which will be my 7th video, it won't work quite as well, because I already have Last Laugh Epsilon for LLE. I can't use LLE for Last Laugh Eta, or there will be confusion. Even using LLE for Epsilon may turn out to have been a bad idea when I get there. In most cases it's better to write the full title (especially for orders), or at least the fully-spelled letter. However, the thing is that the acronyms are not only convenient when discussing videos, but I also use them myself very frequently for file names, folder names, etc. You know, for personal reference. I wonder how to deal with it.
This is rather off-topic, and it will probably bore most people to tears, the same way I assume a good part of the above text already has (sorry about that), but just for the fun of it, I'd like to see what I can do with the acronyms. Now, everything goes perfectly well up to Zeta:
Last Laugh Alpha = LLA
Last Laugh Beta = LLB
Last Laugh Gamma = LLG
Last Laugh Delta = LLD
Last Laugh Epsilon = LLE
Last Laugh Zeta = LLZ
But then one realizes that there's a problem, because eta also starts with "e". Let's put it aside for now.
Last Laugh Eta = ?
Last Laugh Theta = LLT (for now)
Last Laugh Iota = LLI
Last Laugh Kappa = LLK
Last Laugh Lambda = LLL (heh, ever seen Revenge of the Nerds?)
Last Laugh Mu = LLM
Last Laugh Nu = LLN
Last Laugh Xi = LLX
Last Laugh Omicron = LLO (for now)
Last Laugh Pi = LLP
Last Laugh Rho = LLR
Last Laugh Sigma = LLS
Last Laugh Tau = ???
Uh oh! Another conflict. LLT would seem perfectly logical for Last Laugh Tau, possibly even more so than for Theta (since theta is kind of a "th" sound, whereas tau is a real "t" sound). But theta comes well before tau, and even if I used a substitute, what would it be? I guess I could call it LLH, but not only would it still be a bit confusing, but there'd also the fact that I was thinking of using LLH for Last Laugh Eta. That's because the upper case eta is "H", and the lower case is similar to "n", but still not far from "h". Also, a long time ago, eta was associated with an "h" sound, if I'm not mistaken. But it changed a lot over the years, and became an "ee" or "ay" sound, depending on the period and source (the letter itself is pronounced "ay-tah" in English). If I don't use LLH for Last Laugh Eta, I don't know what to call it.
So I have problems with Last Laugh Eta and Last Laugh Theta that I can't completely fix, even if I decide to use LLH for either video. But since tau is the 19th letter, I may never have to deal with the LLT issue, and I might as well use it for Last Laugh Theta and use LLH for Last Laugh Eta.
Let's see the rest of the alphabet:
Last Laugh Upsilon = LLU
Last Laugh Phi = ?
Last Laugh Pi is already LLP, and I see no reason to change that. But since phi is an "f" sound, and no Greek letter starts with "f", using LLF makes sense. I do call my lone foot video LLF1 (Last Laugh Feet 1), but because of the number it doesn't matter much. So...
Last Laugh Phi = LLF
Last Laugh Chi = LLC
Last Laugh Psi = ?
Damn! Still can't use LLP. The only possibility I can think of is to use LLY, because the symbols for psi look a bit like a "y". The upper case upsilon is even closer, being "Y", but whatever. Let's accept LLY for Psi.
Last Laugh Psi = LLY
Last Laugh Omega = ?
Well, there is a conflict here, because of omicron, but no big deal, I can easily use LLW since the lower case omega is very much like a rounded "w". So:
Last Laugh Omega = LLW
I'm still unsure what to do with Eta, Theta and Tau, and I'm not entirely satisfied with Phi, Psi or Omega. There's still potential for confusion there if used by people in general. It's best that I use the acronyms mostly for myself, when messing around with files. But even then I have no solution for Theta/Tau. As you can see, your petty personal problems are nothing compared to mine (just kidding).
Anyway, I realize this entire issue is of very little importance, totally irrelevant to the whole TMF thing, so I guess I wasted everybody's time, heheheh! Ah well, I just wanted to put one of my personal little concerns about The Last Laugh in written form.
Oh, btw, SmashTV, I didn't mean to be rude by correcting you about the video titles. It obviously inspired me. And thanks for the compliments.
