From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Apr 7 20:37:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9885837B931 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 20:37:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from asme.org ([216.252.134.50]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA1FF3; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 22:36:46 -0400 Message-ID: <38EEA9B9.8BE1D8A0@asme.org> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 22:38:33 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marco Molteni Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marco Molteni wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > ... > > Anyway, in Italian there is a one-to-one mapping between the pronounce > of "gn" and the spelling of it, so, at least for practical purposes, > there is no difference between spelling and pronunciation. > "ci" is also an interesting case. > > I also understand you (actually we, since in theory I am Italian > > also) don't extrictly have a "z" since in Italian this is pronounced > > "ts". > > I am not sure I understood. The "z" is pronounced more or less like US > americans pronounce it in the word "pizza" (I think we call it "hard > z"), and it is the "real" "z" for me :-). The english "z" sounds to me > like an "s". > "Z" in english (and in spanish) is very sharp compared to the "S". Think of the noise a bee makes.."Bzzz". Let's see if I forgot my Italian. Carlo V ha detto che il Francese e per parlare su diplomasia, il spagnolo e per parlare con Dio e il tedesche e per parlare con gli animali. :-). cheers, Pedro. > Marco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message