[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Rich Shepard wrote:
The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though...
I suspect that the sound snippet where Linus Torvalds pronounces "linux"
helped promote linux quite a bit...
Not to mention settling more than a few arguments -- as the developer
and benevolent god of Linux, he gets the last word on how it's
pronounced. I suppose Matthias Ettrich would be the official arbiter of
pronunciation here? (And, by the way, you don't want to know how we
Americans pronounce "Matthias".)
It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the
difference between the vowel sound Swedes/Norwegians make when
pronouncing "LyX" compared to eg "licks".
Some of us can. We just can't reproduce it. Anyway, the official
American policy on language is (a) pronounce it any way we damned well
please and then (b) tell you that you're pronouncing it wrong, even if
the word comes from your native language. :-) (In the case of the
Brits, we will also take time to point out that they spell a lot of
words incorrectly, such as "programme".)
[* ] The advantage with a long vacation is that first you can go away
with your significant other and then you can also get some playtime on
your own. In a few days I'll be off to see Vienna and Innsbruck in
Austria :-)
Now, let me think... in the US you typically have... what.. two weeks?
;-)
Three months (college professor), although I only have one month left. ;-)
/Paul
