From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 14 9: 3:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6919837B75A for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 09:03:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA97395; Sun, 14 May 2000 18:03:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:03:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200005141603.SAA97395@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How is "TeX" typically pronounced? X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: <8fkslb$105l$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Organization: Administration TU Clausthal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In list.freebsd-chat Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 13 May 2000 at 15:16:19 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Just for the record, me and most of my friends pronounce TeX > > like the German "Technik" (sorry, I don't know an English word > > that has that sound). > > I know it's not correct, but it's much easier for my German > > tongue. :-) > > Based on the TeXbook, that would be correct. It isn't. According to the TeXbook, it's pronounced like the Greek letter "chi". Germans usually don't pronounce "chi" correctly either. > "It's the 'ch' sound in ... German words like ach". What's the > problem? The "ch" sound in the German words "Technik" ("ich", "echt", ...) and "ach" ("suchen", "Krach", ...) is different. I think it depends on the vowel preceding the "ch". 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". Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message