Re: pronunciation of daemon

2006-08-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 23:15, Ryan Tucker wrote: I found in a pronunciation guide in a Greek dictionary that the diphthong ae is pronounced with a long e sound so I think that you should pronounce it demon. or deeemon even -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To

Re: Re: pronunciation of daemon

2006-08-16 Thread Ryan Tucker
I found in a pronunciation guide in a Greek dictionary that the diphthong ae is pronounced with a long e sound so I think that you should pronounce it demon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-15 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you met Linus Torvalds, would you call him Lie-nus, the traditional American/Australian pronounciation? You might, but I personally would not as I think it would be rude. His name is pronounced Lee-nus; ... It depends whether you're speaking in

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 21:52:35 -0800 (PST), George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] was crying out from somewhere about: Re: pronunciation of daemon grep can download the recording of him saying it from sunsite. grep The same applies to Linux. grep grep No, Hammish. I have heard Linus pronounce Linux

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-11 Thread hawk
brian belabored, People with Asian names usually just give up and adopt a new name because the pronunciation of their given name was impossible for non-Asians to reproduce. :) Living in graduate student housing, I was stunned to find (after more than a year) that my friend whose name I

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-11 Thread Patrick Kirk
-- - Junichi Uekawa, a.k.a. dancer a member of the Dept. of Knowledge Engineering and Computer Science, Doshisha University. ... I pronounce Linux as [Day-bee-enne] What is day-bee-enne? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-11 Thread mheyes
/BerisfordPlc) Subject: Re: pronunciation of daemon -- - Junichi Uekawa, a.k.a. dancer a member of the Dept. of Knowledge Engineering and Computer Science, Doshisha University. ... I pronounce Linux as [Day-bee-enne] What

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-11 Thread Bart Szyszka
ahhh, it's humour I believe: Day-bee-enne is spelled GNU/Debian. I called my Debian system Debby Anne. : ) I do pronounce it as debby-in, though. : ) -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 GigaBee Interactive http://www.gigabee.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:56:38PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: but what swayed me was hearing Linus Torvalds pronounce it himself at the Silicon Valley LUG meeting ... what, almost two years ago. He says Lin-icks. Because his name is Linus, pronounced Leenus. Hence Leenux. If you pronounce his

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
[snip] would tend to), then Lie-nucks is reasonable -- but wrong. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome. Its not wrong. Most English speakers pronounce Linus with a long i. Indeed, people like the scientest Linus Pauling were born and raised using a

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:09:07AM -, Patrick Kirk wrote: all the time. So the pronounciation of Linus and Linux is a question of accent. Finns say it one way; English speakers another; both are equally valid as would any other accent. If you met Linus Torvalds, would you call him

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-10 Thread Egbert Bouwman
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:09:07AM -, Patrick Kirk wrote: accent. Finns say it one way; English speakers another; both are equally valid as would any other accent. An old anecdote deserves to be retold in this context. Niklaus Wirth, swiss and inventor of Pascal, on being asked how to

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-10 Thread Bart Szyszka
Because his name is Linus, pronounced Leenus. Hence Leenux. If you pronounce his name as Lie-nus (as native English speakers would tend to), then Lie-nucks is reasonable -- but wrong. It is pronounced as Leenus in his native country (in many European languages, i's have ee sounds almost

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-02-10 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 03:16:42PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: Because his name is Linus, pronounced Leenus. Hence Leenux. If you pronounce his name as Lie-nus (as native English speakers would tend to), then Lie-nucks is reasonable -- but wrong. It is pronounced as Leenus in his native

Re: pronunciation of daemon, GNOME and GNU

2000-01-28 Thread Egbert Bouwman
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:06:56PM +, Colin Watson wrote: The English word gnome has the gn as the first part of knee; in the case of GNOME I pronounce a hard 'g' separated from the 'n', so guh-NOHM (not proper phonetic alphabet, but it should suffice ...), by analogy with GNU. Thanks

Re: pronunciation of daemon, GNOME and GNU

2000-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Egbert Bouwman) wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:06:56PM +, Colin Watson wrote: The English word gnome has the gn as the first part of knee; in the case of GNOME I pronounce a hard 'g' separated from the 'n', so guh-NOHM (not proper phonetic alphabet, but it should

Re: pronunciation of daemon, GNOME and GNU

2000-01-28 Thread Matt Folwell
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:31:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Is gnu pronounced with a y-glide, like news (nyooz)? I always thought that it was also pronounced guh-noo (without that glide), but I could be wrong. 'dict gnu' isn't clear. Chambers gives two pronunciations for gnu (the animal) one

Re: pronunciation of daemon, GNOME and GNU

2000-01-28 Thread David Teague
If you read the FSF literature, in particular the emacs manual you find they (who chose the Gnu as the mascot) want it pronounced with a distinct GA-Noo (I approximate.) The g is hard, and the rest is like the animal. Cheers David On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Matt Folwell wrote: On Fri, Jan 28,

RE: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-27 Thread Simon Law
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For reference... The New Oxford Dictionary of English says... daemon (2) /di'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ (also demon) noun {Computing} a background process that handles requests for services such as print spooling and file transfers, and is dormant when

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-27 Thread Egbert Bouwman
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:32:33AM -0500, Simon Law wrote: For reference... The New Oxford Dictionary of English says... daemon (2) /di'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ (also demon) I don't have this dictionary, and I don't know the meaning of these pronunciation symbols. Remember the non-natives. In

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-27 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Egbert Bouwman) wrote: [OT, but anyway ...] On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:32:33AM -0500, Simon Law wrote: For reference... The New Oxford Dictionary of English says... daemon (2) /di'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ (also demon) I don't have this dictionary, and I don't know the meaning

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-26 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 04:47:13PM -, Pollywog wrote: On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote: Silly, but... How do you pronounce daemon? I thought it was pronounced day-mun, but an online dictionary I checked said it had the same pronunciation as demon. I pronounce it demon but I

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-26 Thread Friedemann Schorer
Hi Brendan, Am 25 Jan 00, um 11:54 schrieb Brendan Cully: People who pronounce it Lie-nucks have probably just been using it since before the Great Pronunciation Controversy... ... or may just be coming from an other country ;-) Friedemann

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-26 Thread Mark Wagnon
At 11:35 AM 1/25/00 -0500, Brian J. Stults wrote: Silly, but... How do you pronounce daemon? I thought it was pronounced day-mun, but an online dictionary I checked said it had the same pronunciation as demon. I've always pronounced it day-mun. No reason why. I guess if you look at other

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-26 Thread DWM
Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 04:47:13PM -, Pollywog wrote: On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote: Silly, but... How do you pronounce daemon? I thought it was pronounced day-mun, but an online dictionary I checked said it had the same pronunciation as

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-25 Thread Gordon Still
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RE: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-25 Thread Pollywog
On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote: Silly, but... How do you pronounce daemon? I thought it was pronounced day-mun, but an online dictionary I checked said it had the same pronunciation as demon. I pronounce it demon but I have heard a few people pronounce it day-mun. Since they also say

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-25 Thread Brendan Cully
On Tuesday, 25 January 2000 at 16:47, Pollywog wrote: On 25-Jan-2000 Brian J. Stults wrote: Silly, but... How do you pronounce daemon? I thought it was pronounced day-mun, but an online dictionary I checked said it had the same pronunciation as demon. I pronounce it demon but I have

Re: pronunciation of daemon

2000-01-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
Pollywog said: I pronounce it demon but I have heard a few people pronounce it day-mun. Since they also say Lie-nucks, I went with demon. :) Then there are a few demented souls (like me) who say demon and lie-nucks - you can't escape that easily! -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$