[Haskell-cafe] GADT rhymes with cat

2008-03-16 Thread Ashley Yakeley
GADT rhymes with cat. The d is silent, like the Danish godt, or the German Stadt, or the American trademark Bundt. -- Ashley Yakeley ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GADT rhymes with cat

2008-03-16 Thread ajb
G'day all. Quoting Ashley Yakeley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GADT rhymes with cat. The d is silent, like the Danish godt, or the German Stadt, or the American trademark Bundt. I pronounce it so that it rhymes with ADT. Cheers, Andrew Bromage ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GADT rhymes with cat

2008-03-16 Thread Jeremy Apthorp
On 16/03/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Ashley Yakeley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GADT rhymes with cat. The d is silent, like the Danish godt, or the German Stadt, or the American trademark Bundt. I pronounce it so that it rhymes with ADT. Clearly, this

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GADT rhymes with cat

2008-03-16 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Mar 16, 2008, at 6:01 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all. Quoting Jeremy Apthorp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Clearly, this pronounciation is gay dee tea. I always new those types were a bit queer. Not that there's anything wrong with that. A bit short of gaiety? -- brandon s. allbery

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GADT rhymes with cat

2008-03-16 Thread ajb
G'day all. Quoting Jeremy Apthorp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Clearly, this pronounciation is gay dee tea. I always new those types were a bit queer. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Cheers, Andrew Bromage ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GADT rhymes with cat

2008-03-16 Thread Marc A. Ziegert
GADTs always reminds me of the japanese word gattsu. ガッツ == ga-tsu-tsu == gattsu, spoken somehow like gah-t--ts... followed by a half spoken english u (second half). gattsu means in english guts. that in mind, i was just GADDing in StarDict, which translates gatsugatsu with burning with desire

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GADT rhymes with cat

2008-03-16 Thread Anton van Straaten
Ashley Yakeley wrote: GADT rhymes with cat. The d is silent, like the Danish godt, or the German Stadt, or the American trademark Bundt. As long as you don't pronounce it like gat in Dutch and Afrikaans, which literally means hole, but also has a vulgar sense which means anus or ass/arse: