Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:29:37 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD logo Message-ID: <20100725172937.GB85893@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20100725134730.GA5685@RawFedDogs.net> References: <E1OcU31-0002Iw-00.vic_sk-mail-ru@f138.mail.ru> <20100724185925.GA69480@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20100724214725.GA82251@guilt.hydra> <20100725134730.GA5685@RawFedDogs.net>
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--wq9mPyueHGvFACwf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 08:47:30AM -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 03:47:25PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > =20 > > Actually, "daemon" is a Latinization of the Greek "daimon". Daimon is > > pronounced something more like "die-mahn", but (being from the Latin) > > daemon is prounounced "dee-mohn". Unix tradition holds that "daemon" is > > pronounced similarly to the Latin fashion (in practice, roughly like > > "dee-muhn" by English speakers). >=20 > I guess that depends on which period of Latin one studies. From Latin > Pronunciation Demystified: >=20 > http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/latinpro.pdf >=20 > ae like English ai in aisle >=20 > Which is how I pronounce ae in Latin. On the other hand, I've always > pronounced daemon like day-mohn, probably from hearing Jon Pertwee > pronounce it that way in the Doctor Who episode The D=E6mons. Without downloading a PDF and reading it . . . do you know what Latin variant is used in that document? Is it classical, church, or scientifically bastardized Latin (for instance)? I'm curious. I know that in at least some contexts the Latin pronunciation is more "dee" than "dai" for daemon, and that "dee" is the pronunciation generally considered "correct" for server processes in Unix systems. Beyond that, it's entirely possible there are other pronunciations of which I am not aware -- though I'm pretty sure "day" is solely an artifact of people trying to figure out how to pronounce terms that contain the ae (or the =E6 ligature) without actually trying to look it up. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --wq9mPyueHGvFACwf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxMdIEACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKXfawCgybrxbpE2POLwks1h04CsRJa3 B3AAnR0RppJOdesQwZHCmN/pNtn9MQhE =8ocr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wq9mPyueHGvFACwf--
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