Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:10:15 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <3686A237.E0701780@uk.radan.com> References: <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com> <Your <4.1.19981224112052.05a31740@127.0.0.1> <4.1.19981224174155.03dd8670@127.0.0.1> <368378AB.969463E2@uk.radan.com> <4.1.19981225181200.05a201b0@mail.lariat.org> <xzpg1a3mzhe.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <19981226131644.I12346@freebie.lemis.com> <4.1.19981226104824.05822710@mail.lariat.org> <36854A89.B393D402@uk.radan.com> <19981227112355.B12346@freebie.lemis.com> <4.1.19981227111018.057c04c0@mail.lariat.org> <4.1.19981227112512.059b06e0@mail.lariat.org>
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Brett Glass wrote: > > At 01:25 PM 12/27/98 -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > >pah-ehh-yah is more like it... > > Somewhere in between, I think. It's not QUITE pronounced > as a short "e". > Which was the point I was making in my post. It's bloody difficult for Engish speakers (and a few other languages by the sound of it) to pronounce it _exactly_ right, as a Spanish speaker would because that sound doesn't exist in English. Therefore, when some words come into common use in another language the pronounciation changes, which is what I said in reply to Brett stating "....when the English adopt a word from another language, they cannot seem to use it as-is. They seem to feel COMPELLED to shift at least the accented syllables and often the vowels.". > --Brett > > Father: No, son, THAT's the fruit cake and THAT's the yule log. > Son: But, Dad -- it's heavier, it's harder, and it lights > much more easily. Are you SURE it's the fruit cake? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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