eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) (02/05/90)
I wrote: >Now that an end is near, it would be sensible to talk about >subscribing to ClariNet. First, does UofT want it? If you, as a >user, do send me mail saying "I want clari", or "I don't want clari." Well, I got a whopping response of 19 replies, plus 3 oral replies as people caught me in the hallways. Results: Want ClariNet: 21 Don't want ClariNet: 1 Who will pay for it? Well 3 people said they would NOT pay for it, and 2 said they WOULD pay for it if someone was to collect money (!). Several people suggested that UTCS should/could pay, but I haven't contacted them, and they haven't contacted me. I only did this poll to see if there was an interest. Someone else (with $$) may wish to pursue this further. Again, the price was (around) C$250/month for the whole campus. Interesting quotes: "I don't want clari. It's lousier than TV news." "I like it, but I'm not sure if it's worth money." "I like the Eastern Europe news." [From a Czech (sp?)] "Where's the Kinsey sex features?" "The phonetic spellings from Broadcast News are amusing. I though people in radio were quite literate?" BTW, I'd like thank Brad for giving us the opportunity to sample ClariNet. -- Doug Eastick -- eastick@me.utoronto.ca
bstempleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Brad Templeton) (02/05/90)
I think the phonetic spellings are actually a great idea, but nobody ever has the guts to put them in newspapers or magazines. How else do you learn (other than by listening to radio announcers who got a report like you see in clari.canada.general) how to pronounce foreign or unusual names? I thought it was Jim Backer who married Tammy Faye for a long time, not Jim Baker. Newspapers seem to feel it would be demeaning to tell people the pronunciation of slavic names, for example, but I don't see why. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont. (519) 884-7473