Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:09:59 -0800 From: "'Alfred Perlstein '" <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> Cc: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>, Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, Peter Lai <PeterL@resnet.uconn.edu>, "'David Talkington '" <dtalk@prairienet.org>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG '" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pronunciations Message-ID: <20001130160959.E8051@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011301540420.31931-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>; from beattie@aracnet.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:41:05PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001130173532.96910E-100000@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011301540420.31931-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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* Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> [001130 15:41] wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Chris Hill wrote: > > > > > What about ~? In grade school I learned that it was pronounced "TIL-duh" > > but I have a friend who calls it "TIL-day." > > > > twiddle "ok, now hit tilde" (til-deh) "what?" "the curly line thing" "the what?" "y'know the accent thing above the back-tick..?" "back.. tick?" "argh!" *WHAM* *WHAM* *WHAM* (slamming phone on desk) "hello? hello? what was that?" "*nothing*, y'know the spanish accent thingy on the upper left hand side of the keyboard?" "uh...?" *WHAM* *WHAM* *WHAM* (this time it's my head hitting the desk) "oh! i found it! nice homepage..." "yeah, great... bye!" *CLICK* Moral of the story: Depending on technical ability you may have adapt your pronunciation. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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