tswift@well.UUCP (Theodore John Swift) (10/18/87)
<comdisco@cae780.TEK.COM>'s question about 'char' has injected a lot of
fairly useless bandwidth into the group in the form of reposted quotes of
his whole posting, BUT I think it's worth finding out about. I *mailed*
my reply, hoping to avoid just what happened. If other quasi-trivia
questions come up, maybe the poster should offer to summarize for the net?
Simpler idea than finding a floating handle, eh?
"It looks like a thermopod, but it's a very bad design"
-another from Buckaroo Banzaii
--
Ted Swift (well!tswift) "Why is there watermelon there?"
"I'll explain later"
- from "Buckaroo Banzaii"itkin@stsci.EDU (Elliot Itkin) (11/11/87)
While we are wasting time on the correct pronunciation of "char", we should also worry about the pronunciations of "bin" and "lib". Both of these should be pronounced with a long i sound, since they were derived from binary and library.
rjchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Raymond Juimong Chen) (11/11/87)
In article <92@ra> itkin@stsci.EDU (Elliot Itkin) writes: >"bin" and "lib".... >Both of these should be pronounced with a long i sound, since >they were derived from binary and library. Stop it! The pronunciation wars over "char" and "*" were bad enough. I say "bin" should be pronounced "dwat" and "lib" should be pronounced "frutz". And the word "snap" should clearly be pronounced "schnapp" since it is obviously a derivative of the Middle Low German word "snappen" which is pronounced "schnappen". Seriously, folks, stop it. I say "tomato" and you say "tomato". Let's call the whole thing off. -- Raymond Chen UUCP: ...allegra!princeton!{pucc|phoenix}!rjchen BITNET: 6101695@pucc, rjchen@pucc ARPA: rjchen@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU "Say something, please! ('Yes' would be best.)" - !sfmaable.7