Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:11:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How is "TeX" typically pronounced? Message-ID: <20000517111151.A22008@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpsnvjhnad.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <200005141603.SAA97395@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <xzpsnvjhnad.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Monday, 15 May 2000 at 16:59:38 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> writes: >> In the first case, the sound is produced by the middle part of >> the tongue (between tongue and palate), in the second case it >> is produced by the back part of the tongue (it comes from the >> throat). The latter is the correct pronunciation for "chi" and >> "TeX". > > Technically speaking, the first is unvoiced, the second is voiced. Well, no, they're both unvoiced. There aren't many voiced equivalents in European languages, though I'm not sure about the "G" in Dutch "Genever". Arabic has kha (unvoiced) and ghain (voiced). The sound is similar to guttural 'r' in German or French. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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