On Friday, 03/11/2005 at 03:39 CET, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS Anyone know whether we need to spell YAST these days? It appears > that Novell write SuSE Linux as SUSE LINUX. In a call yesterday one of > my US peers suggested that they now can pronounce SUSE the American > way, and I fear they feel confident about doing the same with LINUX...
"You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." We Americans are permitted (under international treaty it seems) to pronounce any word any way we want, with emphasis on proper nouns. We will Anglicize the word upon first contact and then spell and pronounce according to our whim. "Cla-a-ss! Cla-a-ss! SHUT UP! (Pay attention, Senator!) Today we're going to learn to say the word 'Iraq'. Repeat after me: eye-rack." (like, gag me with a spoon. totally.). By the time we're done with a "foreign" word, no one will ever know it wasn't invented in Kansas or Nebraska. -- Chuckie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
