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- From: briand@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Brian D Diehm)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: discs, was Re: Presently
- Message-ID: <8383@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:24:07 GMT
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- >>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")...
-
- Nice rise to the bait, Detlef!
-
- >To my ears, hi-fee sounds ridiculous. Or would anyone in the English-
- >speaking world say so??
-
- This is interesting, because the "fi" sound in English is similarly
- ridiculous. The word is not pronounced "FI-del-i-tee" where the first
- syllable rhymes with "eye." The word is pronounced "fih-DEL-ih-tee"
- with a short "I" sound and the accent on the second syllable.
-
- (U.K. usage may differ.)
-
- So, saying "hi-fi" or "hi-fee" equally misrepresents the word being
- abbreviated. Neither can be more ridiculous than the other, IMHO.
-
- -Brian
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- Brian Diehm
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