----- Forwarded message from Alexander Tsyplakov -----
> Have any of you ever actually heard Dr. Kolmogorov or his parents
pronounce > his name? If not, then you cannot really be sure of the
proper way to > pronounce it. My name is fairly simple, yet I have
heard at least 13 > variations on its pronunciation. Only one of them
is correct. It is the > way MY PARENTS and I pronounce it!
Theoretically you are right. But in this case there is no
ambiguity for Russian - Kalma_go_raf.
"O" without stress is pronounced as "a".
----- End of forwarded message from Alexander Tsyplakov -----
I don't know about Russian, but some languages are a lot more phonetic
than English (not that it would take much). I believe John Kemeny
(mathematician and past president of Dartmouth) was amazed at the time
American students spent learning to spell in comparison with his
native Hungary.
Now, does anyone have anything to say about teaching statistics?-)
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