Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words - gradually going OT :)

2007-04-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 06:35:50AM -0400, Max Hyre wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > My first words were Cum-By-Ya > >Well, you just got blocked by millions of spam filters right there. > :-) I've always sung ``coom-by-ya''. > >And then again---my spell checker objected to `coom';

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words - gradually going OT :)

2007-04-02 Thread Max Hyre
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > My first words were Cum-By-Ya Well, you just got blocked by millions of spam filters right there. :-) I've always sung ``coom-by-ya''. And then again---my spell checker objected to `coom'; its first option was `cum'. Go figure. (Or, as my daughter says, go th

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words - gradually going OT :)

2007-04-01 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 03:18:19PM EDT, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:37:30PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > > Hopefully some UNIX aethnologist (or would that be ethnologist?) will > > stick a mike in the face of the old meisters and record their idiolects > > while there's s

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words - gradually going OT :)

2007-04-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:37:30PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > Hopefully some UNIX aethnologist (or would that be ethnologist?) will > stick a mike in the face of the old meisters and record their idiolects > while there's still time. Ethnologist, that's the word I was looking for. All I could thin

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words - gradually going OT :)

2007-04-01 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 07:28:51AM EDT, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:11:21PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 01:38:06AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 04:18:33PM -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote: > > > > Canadian (7th g

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words - gradually going OT :)

2007-04-01 Thread Kent West
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > he points out that each person builds their own language pattern or > idiolect. What'd'ju just call me?!! Them thar's fightin' words, Buddy! ;-) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words - gradually going OT :)

2007-04-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 11:28:51AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:11:21PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 01:38:06AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 04:18:33PM -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote: > > > > Canadian (7th

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words - gradually going OT :)

2007-04-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:11:21PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 01:38:06AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 04:18:33PM -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote: > > Canadian (7th generation, North Atlantic [St. Mary's, West Irish, > Highland Scott] descen