On Wednesday 16 August 2006 23:15, Ryan Tucker wrote:
> I found in a pronunciation guide in a Greek dictionary that the
> diphthong "ae" is pronounced with a long "e" sound so I think that you
> should pronounce it demon.
or deeemon even
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I found in a pronunciation guide in a Greek dictionary that the
diphthong "ae" is pronounced with a long "e" sound so I think that you
should pronounce it demon.
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> From: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> If you met Linus Torvalds, would you call him Lie-nus, the traditional
> American/Australian pronounciation? You might, but I personally would
> not as I think it would be rude. His name is pronounced Lee-nus; ...
It depends whether you're speaking i
> ahhh, it's humour I believe:
> "Day-bee-enne" is spelled GNU/Debian.
I called my Debian system "Debby Anne". : ) I do pronounce it as
debby-in, though. : )
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> ... I pronounce "Linux" as [Day-bee-enne]
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What is day-bee-enne?
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brian belabored,
> People with Asian names
> usually just give up and adopt a new name because the pronunciation of
> their given name was impossible for non-Asians to reproduce.
:) Living in graduate student housing, I was stunned to find (after
more than a year) that my friend whose name
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:52:35 -0800 (PST), George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
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grep> > can download the recording of him saying it from sunsite.
grep> > The same applies to Linux.
grep>
grep> No, Ham
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 03:16:42PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote:
> > Because his name is Linus, pronounced Leenus. Hence Leenux.
> > If you pronounce his name as Lie-nus (as native English speakers
> > would tend to), then Lie-nucks is reasonable -- but wrong.
>
> It is pronounced as Leenus in his na
> Because his name is Linus, pronounced Leenus. Hence Leenux.
> If you pronounce his name as Lie-nus (as native English speakers
> would tend to), then Lie-nucks is reasonable -- but wrong.
It is pronounced as Leenus in his native country (in many European
languages, i's have ee sounds almost excl
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:09:07AM -, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> accent. Finns say it one way; English speakers another; both are equally
> valid as would any other accent.
An old anecdote deserves to be retold in this context.
Niklaus Wirth, swiss and inventor of Pascal, on being asked
how to pr
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:09:07AM -, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> all the time. So the pronounciation of Linus and Linux is a question of
> accent. Finns say it one way; English speakers another; both are equally
> valid as would any other accent.
If you met Linus Torvalds, would you call him Lie-
[snip]
> would tend to), then Lie-nucks is reasonable -- but wrong.
>
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Its not wrong. Most English speakers pronounce Linus with a long i.
Indeed, people like the scientest Linus Pauling were born and raised using
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:56:38PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
> but what swayed me was hearing Linus Torvalds pronounce it himself at the
> Silicon Valley LUG meeting ... what, almost two years ago. He says
> Lin-icks.
Because his name is Linus, pronounced Leenus. Hence Leenux.
If you pronounce h
If you read the FSF literature, in particular the emacs manual
you find they (who chose the Gnu as the mascot) want it pronounced
with a distinct GA-Noo (I approximate.) The g is hard, and the
rest is like the animal.
Cheers
David
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Matt Folwell wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 200
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:31:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> Is gnu pronounced with a y-glide, like news (nyooz)? I always thought
> that it was also pronounced guh-noo (without that glide), but I could be
> wrong. 'dict gnu' isn't clear.
Chambers gives two pronunciations for gnu (the animal) o
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Egbert Bouwman) wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:06:56PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
>> The English word gnome has the gn as the first part of knee; in the case
>> of GNOME I pronounce a hard 'g' separated from the 'n', so guh-NOHM (not
>> proper phonetic alphabet, but it should
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:06:56PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
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> The English word gnome has the gn as the first part of knee; in the case
> of GNOME I pronounce a hard 'g' separated from the 'n', so guh-NOHM (not
> proper phonetic alphabet, but it should suffice ...), by analogy with
> GNU.
>
Th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Egbert Bouwman) wrote:
[OT, but anyway ...]
>On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:32:33AM -0500, Simon Law wrote:
>> For reference...
>> The New Oxford Dictionary of English says...
>> daemon (2) /di'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ (also demon)
>
>I don't have this dictionary,
>and I don't know the
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:32:33AM -0500, Simon Law wrote:
> For reference...
> The New Oxford Dictionary of English says...
> daemon (2) /di'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ (also demon)
>
I don't have this dictionary,
and I don't know the meaning of these pronunciation symbols.
Remember the non-natives.
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For reference...
The New Oxford Dictionary of English says...
daemon (2) /di'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ (also demon)
noun {Computing} a background process that handles requests for
services such as print spooling and file transfers, and is dormant
when noot
"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 04:47:13PM -, Pollywog wrote:
> >
> > On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote:
> > > Silly, but... How do you pronounce "daemon"? I thought it was
> > > pronounced "day-mun", but an online dictionary I checked said it had the
> > > sa
At 11:35 AM 1/25/00 -0500, Brian J. Stults wrote:
Silly, but... How do you pronounce "daemon"? I thought it was
pronounced "day-mun", but an online dictionary I checked said it had the
same pronunciation as "demon".
I've always pronounced it day-mun. No reason why. I guess if you look at
oth
Hi Brendan,
Am 25 Jan 00, um 11:54 schrieb Brendan Cully:
> People
> who pronounce it Lie-nucks have probably just been using it since
> before the Great Pronunciation Controversy...
... or may just be coming from an other country ;-)
Friedemann
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 04:47:13PM -, Pollywog wrote:
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> On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote:
> > Silly, but... How do you pronounce "daemon"? I thought it was
> > pronounced "day-mun", but an online dictionary I checked said it had the
> > same pronunciation as "demon".
>
> I pronounce i
Pollywog said:
> I pronounce it "demon" but I have heard a few people pronounce it "day-mun".
> Since they also say "Lie-nucks", I went with "demon". :)
Then there are a few demented souls (like me) who say "demon" and "lie-nucks"
- you can't escape that easily!
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On Tuesday, 25 January 2000 at 16:47, Pollywog wrote:
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> On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote:
> > Silly, but... How do you pronounce "daemon"? I thought it was
> > pronounced "day-mun", but an online dictionary I checked said it had the
> > same pronunciation as "demon".
>
> I pronounce it "d
On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote:
> Silly, but... How do you pronounce "daemon"? I thought it was
> pronounced "day-mun", but an online dictionary I checked said it had the
> same pronunciation as "demon".
I pronounce it "demon" but I have heard a few people pronounce it "day-mun".
Since t
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