Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread John Sessoms
From: Toine Simple question difficult answer, if you know how to pronounce Antoinette, Toine should be easy. Twone maybe. My last name "Kuiper" is difficult. Sometimes I hear my name on Discovery and such if they have something about astronomy and "the Kuiper belt", the place where comets come fr

Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]

2011-07-21 Thread Darren Addy
I think it is worth mentioning that photojournalism can be SIMULTANEOUSLY exploitation and exposé. Seeing it only as one or the other is not seeing the whole picture. I think of the famous photo of the people falling from the collapsing fire escape of the burning building (one to their death). htt

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread John Sessoms
Pronounced "John" ... except by my Latino friends who pronounce it "Hwan". And then there was that cute little French exchange student who sat behind me in English class my last year in High School. I can't even begin to reproduce the way she pronounced it, but it was MUSIC! Last name is pron

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Ralf R. Radermacher
It's Liza, with a Zee... SCNR, Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Jaume Lahuerta
Since I already tried to explain this to Boris prior to my visit to Israel, I'll just past what I told him at that time: Jaume is a Catalan name, that in Spanish is Jaime, James in English, Jacques in French, Giacomo in Italian...Actually, my offical name (as in Passport and Spanish ID) is Jaim

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Mat Maessen
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > My sen?  [My rhymes with "high"]? > Dan Matyola Nope. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the dire

Re: Today's score of things Pentax and questions..

2011-07-21 Thread John Sessoms
From: "P. J. Alling" On 7/20/2011 5:56 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: 3 Lenses: (In apparently fine shape and I tried it on my ist d ) SMC PENTAX FA 28-105 zoom f4-5.6. Auto focus works on my ist-d. BLACK There were three different versions of this lens in FA livery all available in bleak, a Powe

Re: GESO - The Boys of Summer

2011-07-21 Thread Ann Sanfedele
How fun! lovely little series, Frank I think I like the Pitcher picture the best (or maybe I just wnated to say that :-) ann On 7/21/2011 08:15, frank theriault wrote: A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/boys-of-summer.html

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Jaume Lahuerta
> >De: Bong Manayon >Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >Enviado: jueves 21 de julio de 2011 1:23 >Asunto: Re: OT How do you pronounce your name? > >On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: >> >> >> - No, it's pronounced "ee-gor"! >> - But they told me i

Re: GESO - The Boys of Summer

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Very nice set. I especially like the one of the kid sliding into the base. Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:15 AM, frank theriault wrote: > A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
My sen? [My rhymes with "high"]? Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Mat Maessen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a >> lot of fo

Re: PPG news...

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I have had no images either accepted or declined in the past two weeks, although a couple have been under review for about a month. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Bong Manayon wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Ann Sanfedele

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Mat Maessen
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a > lot of folks with names > that I can only guess at the pronunciation.  Names which may be common in one > culture are pretty > rare in Central California. You get

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
"Dan" rhymes with "Ann." Matyola is a Rusyn (Ruthenian) name, originally written in Cyrillic, and it is pronounced pretty much like it is spelled: Mat-ee-o-luh. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > We've got peop

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Fernando
I'll delurk te-rra-'zzi-no 'te' like in 'ten' 'rra' the 'rr' sound like in 'wrong', 'a' sound like in 'ash' 'zzi' i sound like in 'hit' 'no' 'o' sound like in 'on' Italians usually get it right ;-) 'Fernando', like in the Abba song -I know most of you are old enough to know that one. On Wed

Re: GESO - The Boys of Summer

2011-07-21 Thread Bruce Walker
On 11-07-21 8:15 AM, frank theriault wrote: A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/boys-of-summer.html Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank You caught some great moments there, Frank. My faves: #2, #3, #4.

Re: GESO - The Boys of Summer

2011-07-21 Thread Paul Stenquist
Excellent. Paul On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:15 AM, frank theriault wrote: > A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/boys-of-summer.html > > Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. > > cheers, > frank > > > -- > "Sharpness is a

Re: MBOI find a stolen camera

2011-07-21 Thread Eckehard Wegner
That is because you're the Stig and when you order a K-5 from Nikon you'll actually get one =) 2011/7/21 SV Hovland : > If I enter my old K-7 serial number, I got a message that my Nikon D90 is > stolen :-) > > Stig Vidar Hovland > > > Fra: pdml-boun...@pd

GESO - The Boys of Summer

2011-07-21 Thread frank theriault
A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/boys-of-summer.html Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept."  -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net h

Re: MBOI find a stolen camera

2011-07-21 Thread SV Hovland
If I enter my old K-7 serial number, I got a message that my Nikon D90 is stolen :-) Stig Vidar Hovland Fra: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [pdml-boun...@pdml.net] på vegne av Eckehard Wegner [overpenta...@googlemail.com] Sendt: 21. juli 2011 08:34 Til: Pentax-Di

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Subash
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Bong Manayon wrote: > We also follow popular trends and personalities, so I know quite a > number of ladies (my age) born in the early 1960s named "Marilyn" or > for that matter "Diana" in the early 1980s.  I wonder why?  :-) i was born in 1963 and in college, th

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Joseph McAllister
On Jul 21, 2011, at 02:17 , Tim Øsleby wrote: > Maritim is not pronounced, Tim should be easy. > > My last name on the other hand. Don't even try it. You will probably > say something very dirty ;-) > > -- > MaritimTim Oh! The old "silent" "Maritim" before the Tim. Joseph McAllister pentax...

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Bong Manayon
Oh, I should have mentioned "Bong" (my spiel on "Pedro" is boring; you don't know me by that name anyway). It is pronounce "bong" and it doesn't really mean anything. I come from a country with door-bell names. Bang (usually a girl), Bong (usually a boy--a junior...more on that later), Bing (gir

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Toralf Lund
Larry Colen wrote: We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. I find that people in most European/Western cou

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Tim Øsleby
Maritim is not pronounced, Tim should be easy. My last name on the other hand. Don't even try it. You will probably say something very dirty ;-) -- MaritimTim My private photo blog: http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ My photo class blog: http://z-fotokurs.blogspot.com/

RE: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Bob W
> >>> We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and > >> there > >>> are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the > >>> pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty > >>> rare in Central California. > >>> > >>> I haven't heard much variation i

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Larry Colen
On Jul 21, 2011, at 1:27 AM, Bob W wrote: >>> We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and >> there >>> are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the >>> pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty >>> rare in Central California. >>> >>> I

RE: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Bob W
> > We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and > there > > are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the > > pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty > > rare in Central California. > > > > I haven't heard much variation in the pronuncia

RE: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Bob W
> We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there > are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the > pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty > rare in Central California. > > I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry

Re: Today's score of things Pentax and questions..

2011-07-21 Thread Larry Colen
On Jul 20, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > Despite the scorching heat , I -had- to get out.. so I slowly crawled over to > my favorite "boutique" the Salvation Army store across from the post office > where I go to mail my ebay sales... > > This is what I got, for a total of $40. >

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Larry Colen
On Jul 20, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Subash wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:41:22 -0600 > steve harley wrote: > >> har as in bar, ley is in tree, emphasis on the first syllable (it's >> irritatingly easy to say "like the motorcycle", but that might not >> ring a bell for everyone) > > > su as in 'fu

Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?

2011-07-21 Thread Toine
Simple question difficult answer, if you know how to pronounce Antoinette, Toine should be easy. Twone maybe. My last name "Kuiper" is difficult. Sometimes I hear my name on Discovery and such if they have something about astronomy and "the Kuiper belt", the place where comets come from. It's alway

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