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- From: TSOS@uni-duesseldorf.de (Detlef Lannert)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: discs, was Re: Presently
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:04:43 GMT
- Organization: Universitaetsrechenzentrum, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Duesseldorf
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- In article <8350@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> briand@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Brian D Diehm) writes:
-
- >>And what about the new "RISC" computers? Should they be "RISK"?
- >
- >I presume you are making a joke here, but on the off chance that you are
- >serious:
- >
- >RISC is an acronym (not just an initialism) for "Reduced Instruction Set
- >Computer." Thus, until we spell it "komputer," it remains RISC.
- >
- >Anyone here from Germany who votes to change "computer" to "komputer"?
-
- I don't (fwiw). Btw, the korrekt spelling should be "Kompjuter", and all
- acronyms would have to be changed ("PK"; "Kuh" for "kompjuterunter-
- stuetzte Herstellung"="computer-aided manufacturing")...
-
- Of course CD would be renamed as KP = "kompakte Platte" -- no, this used
- to stand for "communist party" -- sorry, that's out.
-
- But come to think of it, I shouldn't be too sure that these things won't
- happen. Years ago some highly relevant institution decided that the German
- pronunciation for "hi-fi" ought to be `hi-fee' because the first vowel
- in "fidelity" is pronounced as an `ee' [well, not really, but sort of].
- And all those nitwits on radio and TV seem to follow this rule.
-
- To my ears, hi-fee sounds ridiculous. Or would anyone in the English-
- speaking world say so??
- [It was not intended to allude to the usually high prices of hi-fi
- equipment ...]
- --
- Detlef Lannert DC3EK E-Mail: tsos@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
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