home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!unlinfo.unl.edu!cse!gberigan
- From: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)
- Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.045651.8409@unlinfo.unl.edu>
- Sender: news@unlinfo.unl.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: cse.unl.edu
- Organization: Ursa Minor Beta, 402-476-8047 @ 2400
- References: <1992Jul20.080858.145@sdg.dra.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 04:56:51 GMT
- Lines: 19
-
- sean@sdg.dra.com writes:
-
- >The business section of the Sunday (July 19) New York Times had an article
- >on BBS's. Overall a pretty standard intro to BBS article. But one thing
- >caught my attention, the pronunciation of the word "sysop." I've always
- >heard "sysops" pronounced as "sis-ops", not "sigh-sops" as written in the
- >article. Is this a New York accent?, or have I been saying it wrong for
- >the last twelve years?
-
- I pronounce it "sis-ops", but I don't pronounce modem "mah-deem"
- (modulator-demodulator). :-)
-
- -- gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)
-
- /// ____ \\\ "Sorry, did I say something wrong? Pardon me for
- | |/ / \ \| | breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't even
- \\_|\____/|_// know why I bother to say it oh God I'm so depressed.
- \_)\\/ Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors.
- `-' Life... don't talk to me about life...."
-