From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 10 4:24:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1525837B8BE for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 04:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (r18.bfm.org [216.127.220.114]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 06:24:39 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000410062218.008786c0@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 06:22:18 -0500 To: Brad Knowles , Marco Molteni From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: BSDCon East Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, giffunip@asme.org In-Reply-To: References: <20000409124408.C15826@sofia.csl.sri.com> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> <38EE4C97.B9B83C7A@asme.org> <20000407143054.A9684@sofia.csl.sri.com> <3.0.6.32.20000407225406.0087de50@mail85.pair.com> <20000409124408.C15826@sofia.csl.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:27 10-04-2000 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > I am familiar with American-style pizza (both Chicago and New=20 >York types ;-), and the musical term "mezzo" as applied to "piano"=20 >and "fort=E9" to indicate the volume level at which a particular=20 >section should be played. > > To my ear, these two uses of the doubled "z" sound exactly the same. Well, in Italy and in America not only is pizza not the same thing, the word is also pronounced differently. At any rate, the difference between the zz is that in mezzo it is voiced, in pizza it is not. In other words, pizza is pronounced pits-tsa and mezzo medz-dzo (using English transliteration for Italian pronunciation, not for English pronunciation). By the way, I like the American pizza, too. :) Cheers, Adam ----------------------------------------------------------- "I think, therefore I am." - Seventeenth Century Philosophy "I publish what I think, therefore I have." - Twenty-First Century Action Details at http://www.OnlinePublisher.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message