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- From: pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN)
- Subject: Re: discs, was Re: Presently
- Message-ID: <C1C1H4.2rt@ecf.toronto.edu>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
- References: <8350@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <TSOS.260.727689883@uni-duesseldorf.de> <8383@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:31:52 GMT
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- In article <8383@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM writes:
- >>>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.
- >
- Yah, but "hi-fi" *rhymes*
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