Re: How to pronounce "Debian"?
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:30:58AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 12:22:23AM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > for example, how should 'calliope' be prounounced, eh?
> > CAL-ee-ope? sure looks that way -- but no, it's
> > cal-EYE-o-pee.
>
> Actually, no. To me, it looks like it should be
ak-TWAL-ee, no. tew mee, it LOW-ox lih-KE it sho-ULD bee
> pronounced like the latter.
PRON-o-UN-sed lih-KE the la-TER.
english is of course a language saturated in exceptions to every
pattern. how else could you add one letter and get two new
syllables?
are => area
that said, my familiarity with english syllabification patterns
still differs from yours.
fellatio -- fel-lay-shee-o, not fell-a-tee-o
callous -- kal-luss, not ka-luss or ka-louse
medicine -- med-ih-sin, not med-ih-see-nay
tube -- toob, not to-bay or to-bee
but
calliope -- looks like cal-ee-ope given above patterns,
but 'spozed' to be cal-eye-o-pee instead
as sid caesar was wont to say,
put the em-PHA-sys on the right syl-LA-ble.
all that remains is determining the 'right' sylLAble (and finding
the etymological heritage of each and every word). :)
> --
> Baloo
do you pronounce that ba-LOW-oh?
and give mowgli my regards.
--
I use Debian/GNU Linux version 2.2;
Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #83 from Kieren Diment <kieren@mailandnews.com>
and USM Bish <bish@nde.vsnl.net.in>
:
GOT GIBBERISH? And wondering what to do next, to clear the
mess? Clear your command-line buffer with control-C (in case
you'd entered something that might be harmful), and then enter
reset
which is a symlink to /usr/bin/tset which is a portion of
"ncurses-bin" package. ("apt-get install ncurses-bin")
Also see "man tset" for more info.
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
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