--- Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote: > > > > > > >--- The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [I think the post-line isn't correct for my snippage, > so I'm putting little tags for who I think wrote...]
You are correct > [F] > http://news.com.com/2009-1088-984352.html?tag=fd_rndm#38 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > China raises the red tag > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > RFID tags aren't just for tracking > > consumer goods any more. > > > > > > > > The Chinese Communist Party is > > experimenting with tagging and tracking people. > > > [J] How is this any different than on StarTrek? > > [me] I think because as a member of Starfleet, you > have chosen to go into dangerous space/situations, and > it is an added safety factor [considering all the > abductions and holodeck problems... ;} ] Nope. On several episodes people ask the computer where family members or business associates on the ground are. > <snip> > [R]> > > "Geordie" is not pronounced the same as > "Gordy", either. > > > [J] How so? > > [me] "Geordi" has a "j" sound, as in "jump;" I > *think* this is a "voiced G." "Gordy" has a > 'less-voiced' "g," as in "go get." If anyone's really > curious, I could ask my speech pathologist friend for > the technical terms/descriptions. Ok, I buy that, but how would you know without a doubt that this is the case? Tell me the algorithm for determining the pronunciation without storing the information as data. After some searching I find that geo usually sounds like 'j'. But what about my sister-in-law's name Geogk? Besides, his name is "Jodee" not jeeardee and "geo" makes the jeea sound in every other case that I can find. Maybe it's "Ge" that makes the 'j' but if that were true then "get" and "jet" would sound alike. The gentle and gentile geriatric German general was a genuine genius at geography, geology, and geometry. As do many of his generation, he likes to make generously loud gestures with gerunds, ~and~, he has very small ............geraniums. ===== _________________________________________________ Jan William Coffey _________________________________________________ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
