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- From: gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)
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- Subject: Re: New York Times article on BBS's
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- Date: 21 Jul 92 19:16:04 GMT
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- jrjohns@eos.ncsu.edu (JOHN RICHARD JOHNS) writes:
- >gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...) writes:
-
- >>I pronounce it "sis-ops", but I don't pronounce modem "mah-deem"
- >>(modulator-demodulator). :-)
-
- >Very good. That's because you can pronounce demodulator "dee-mod-you-late-or"
- >or you can say "deh-mod-you-late-or."
-
- Can you say "dee-mode-you-lay-tor"?
-
- >Other examples? When you say
- >demonstration, do you say "deem-on-stray-shun"? How about calling a
- >delegation a "Dee-leh-gay-shun"? The pronounciation of de- can vary between
- >dee and deh. System, on the other hand, I have never heard pronounced
- >"Sigh-stem."
-
- The "de" in demodulator is a prefix, whereas the "de" in the other words
- you cited was merely the beginning syllable.
-
- % webster de-
-
- de- pf prefix [ME, fr. OF de-, des-, partly fr. L de- from, down, away
- (fr.] de) and partly fr. L dis-; L de akin to OIr di from, OE to- to - more
- at TO, DIS- 1a: do the opposite of {devitalize} 1b: reverse of
- {de-emphasis} 2: remove (a specified thing) from {delouse} : remove from (a
- specified thing) {dethrone} 3: reduce {devalue} 4: something derived from
- (a specified thing) {decompound} : derived from something (of a specified
- nature) {denominative} 5: get off of (a specified thing) {detrain}
-
- I don't pronounce modulator "mode-you-lay-tor" either. I don't
- "mode-ih-fy" my code. I don't assemble "moh-dels". I'm not proposing
- the "moh-der-ay-shun" of comp.binaries.apple2.
-
- I do however use a "moh-dehm", not a "mah-deem".
-
- >- John
-
- Besides, "mah-deem" is too reminiscent of the movie Dune. :-)
-
- -- gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Life...)
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