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- From: ncherry@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (neil j.cherry)
- Subject: Re: Pronouncing GNU (was Re: New York Times article on BBS's)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.140559.20124@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <1992Jul24.165041.6652@ac.dal.ca> <Jul.24.22.40.29.1992.17740@pilot.njin.net> <1992Jul29.143929.18879@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:05:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.143929.18879@wraxall.inmos.co.uk> des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) writes:
- >In article <Jul.24.22.40.29.1992.17740@pilot.njin.net>, pfaffman@pilot.njin.net (Jay Pfaffman) writes:
- >>hobbit@ac.dal.ca writes:
- >>
- >>>What I'm curious about, is how do you folks pronounce 'GNU'?
- [...]
- >
- >"i'm a Gnu, i'm a Gnu
- [...]
- >
- >where the G's indicate a pronounced G. i've forgotten
- >what animal the <??> is and i think i've also missed out
- >a couple of lines ... but you get the general idea.
- >
- >
-
- (Not picking on Dave) I took electronics because I couldn't speak English.
- I then branched off into Computers because I didn't have to worry about
- English. I now can not speak English correctly, so I don't care how we
- pro-nunce anythin'! I got me a moe-deem (care of Dune) and use G N U
- M acks (emacs).
- So since I ain't no English major, I ain't gonna care, is I.
-
- [Take that with tongue in cheek, you stupid english people!] ;-}
-
- NJC
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-