Re: The Sound of Qurtle

David Wood wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2011, at 08:56, Lee Feigenbaum wrote:
> 
>> On 3/4/2011 7:32 AM, Peter Frederick Patel-Schneider wrote:
>>> From: Ivan Herman<ivan@w3.org>
>>> Subject: Re: Semantics of Qurtle (N3 vs TriG), Graph Literals again.
>>> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 02:55:26 -0600
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> I am not sure how does one pronounce "Qurtle" :-)
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Rhymes with turle and yertle, but starts with a "kw" sound.
>>>
>>>      *kwur*-tl
>>>
>>> peter
>> In deference to the new subject of this thread, and with apologies to
>> Simon and Garfunkel[1]:
>>
>>
>>  Hello turtle my old friend
>>  I've come to you to now extend
>>  Because I've seen my share of triples
>>  Whose potential impact slowly ripples
>>  Across the Web, needing not three parts, but more
>>  Perhaps four
>>  Demands the sound of qurtle
>>
>> Lee
> 
> 
> OK, how about this?
> 
> First we started with just three,
> Triples, then, enough for we.
> "But quads are needed", someone said
> to put some issues now to bed.
> "Five!" said Steve before the year was out,
> How many more?, we hear some shout.
> Perhaps a flexible quantity we can guess.
> Then we'll have an RDBMS.

wonderful, well put! and there's the importance in making a distinction 
between a quad, and a set of triples associated to a name, the two are 
quite different, even though the latter is expressible as the former.

Received on Friday, 4 March 2011 16:42:07 UTC