On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:11:39 -0400 Andre Langevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the last C d'I (some of you just stopped reading the post...) Yeah....C d'I is not terribly interresting. RP is, though, and is responsible for pretty much all my skills in reading french :) > they > report the *ist is being pronounced i-s-t. I guess in french. I went out buying an *ist in France a while ago for a family member. Granted, while I do speak French, it's my fourth language, so some misunderstandig were expected.... I tried every single pronouncation of *ist that I could think of, including various french, anglo-saxan and scandinavian ones, including spelling the name....in english and french...no luck.....until I thought of saying "that new reflex camera from Pentax", at which point the *ist came off the shelf :) > Will the anglo-saxons do the same once the camera in on the > shelves and in the hands of many? I-s-t a bit longer than ist, but > it sounds better to my ear. > Well, whichever way I pronounce it, it seems that it doesn't make any difference whatsoever :) I am worried as to what the future models of this series (beyond the *istD) will bring of pronouncation troubles.... --thomas > Andre > -- > > -- ------------------------------------------------ Thomas Heide Clausen Civilingeni�r i Datateknik (cand.polyt) M.Sc in Computer Engineering E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://voop.free.fr/ ------------------------------------------------
