On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 21:16:10 -0500, Jay Maynard wrote:
sweet is suss; sweets (as in candies) is Susse. (No, I don't know
how to enter an ess-tsett, but one should go in place of the two ses if
you're being pedantic.) Wonder how much that influenced the choice of
acronym...
Not a lot would be my
The problems with the umlauts is: they don't appear correctly
in most mail clients, so in Germany we often use (in mails etc.):
ue for u umlaut
oe for o umlaut
ae for a umlaut
ss for ess-tset
But my kmail client supports the umlauts, but they are different to
Phil's. ae = d, oe = v, ue = |,
On Wednesday, 08/06/2003 at 07:27 ZE8, John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linus bases the pronunciation of Linux on the way he says Linus, but we
pronounce Linus quite differently.
You know, I couldn't care less whether someone says LEE-nooks,
LEE-nucks, LIN-ooks, or LIN-uks, but I do
I think it is an abbreviation, and AFAIK, it's the abbreviation of
something like System- und Software-Entwicklung (see the litte u),
which is german for system and software development. Not very special.
But I'm not absolutely sure. I checked the SuSe web site, but didn't
find an explanation.
Well, not quite. The Rechtschreibreform threw away some strange
rules, but the sz still exists (not in Switzerland, but in Germany
and Austria). If the vowel before the sz is long, the sz remains,
otherwise the Rechtschreibreform changed this to double s.
Regards, Bernd
Am Mit, 06 Aug 2003
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:27:11AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Linus bases the pronunciation of Linux on the way he says Linus, but we
pronounce Linus quite differently.
To misquote Tonto: What's this 'we' stuff, white man?
I try to pronounce Linux the same way Linus does. Being a Texan,
Serendipitously, I have two visiting Swedes at hand. Confronted separately
with 'SuSE' written on a scrap of paper, they both said
TSOO-seh
with the accent, not a strong one, on the first syllable.
I suspect, however, that anglophones, Germans, and Swedes are going to
continue to pronounce it a
I suspect, however, that anglophones, Germans, and Swedes are going to
continue to pronounce it a bit differently. The precedents are bad.
Agreement about how to promnounce names and acronyms is hard to come by.
After many decades Brits pronounce 'CICS' as 'kicks', Americans say
like SONY did it :-)
Am Mit, 06 Aug 2003 schrieben Sie:
Perhaps they could be persuaded to change their name to something
whose pronunciation we all agree on!
Bob Matthews
University of Geneva.
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On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Alan
sweet is suss; sweets (as in candies) is Susse. (No, I don't know
how to enter an ess-tsett, but one should go in place of the two ses if
you're being pedantic.) Wonder how much that influenced the choice of
acronym...
Not a lot would be my guess. The 'u' in 'suss' has an umlaut, making it a
OK. I am at LinuxWorld Expo in beautiful, sunny, warm San Francisco.
SuSE has a large booth here (and is also in IBM's and a lot of other
booths). I will ask the SuSE team tomorrow how they pronounce SuSE!
Regards, Jim
, 2003 3:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: pronunciation of SuSE
Perhaps they could be persuaded to change their name to something
whose pronunciation we all agree on!
Bob Matthews
University of Geneva.
Perhaps they could be persuaded to change their name to something
whose pronunciation we all agree on!
Bob Matthews
University of Geneva.
Cough cough - altogether now:
You say potato, I say potato,
You say tomato, I say tomato,
Potato, potato,
Tomato, tomato,
Let's call the whole thing off...
In a recent post there was the statement;
... SuSE (pronounced SOOS-ah) ...
I was told that it was SOO-say.
Could someone from SuSE or any .de give a definitive and
authoritative correct pronunciation?
Thanks,
Dennis
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Dennis G. Wicks Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Per Jessen wrote:
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 07:27:11 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Could someone from SuSE or any .de give a definitive and
authoritative correct pronunciation?
Must we all pronounce it with a German accent?
Not necessarily with an accent.
Do the french
I mentioned this to my roommate, and he pointed out that the German word for
sweet is suss; sweets (as in candies) is Susse.
More likely S|ssigkeiten. Though I still tend to write S|_igkeiten.
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Phil Payne
http://www.isham-research.com
+44 7785 302 803
+49 173 6242039
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:55:58PM -0400, Jim Elliott wrote:
OK. I am at LinuxWorld Expo in beautiful, sunny, warm San Francisco.
SuSE has a large booth here (and is also in IBM's and a lot of other
booths). I will ask the SuSE team tomorrow how they pronounce SuSE!
I mentioned this to my
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Alan Altmark wrote:
On Wednesday, 08/06/2003 at 07:27 ZE8, John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linus bases the pronunciation of Linux on the way he says Linus, but we
pronounce Linus quite differently.
You know, I couldn't care less whether someone says
If not some other person pointed it out in the meantime:
there is a strong difference in german between u and u umlaut,
so SuSE does not sound like suess (written normally with
u umlaut and sz). So this did not influence the acronym,
in my opinion. Also, sweets is Suessigkeiten.
Regards, Bernd
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
The problems with the umlauts is: they don't appear correctly
in most mail clients, so in Germany we often use (in mails etc.):
ue for u umlaut
oe for o umlaut
ae for a umlaut
ss for ess-tset
But my kmail client supports the umlauts, but they are
Perhaps they could be persuaded to change their name to something
whose pronunciation we all agree on!
Bob Matthews
University of Geneva.
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Lucius, Leland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So what does SuSE mean? Anyting? How do the SuSErians pronounce it?
Leland
SuSE was established as Gesellschaft fõr Software-und
Systementwicklung mbH, and later
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 07:27:11 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Could someone from SuSE or any .de give a definitive and
authoritative correct pronunciation?
Must we all pronounce it with a German accent?
Not necessarily with an accent.
Do the french pronounce Paris the way the Greeks do/did?
Do
In a recent post there was the statement;
... SuSE (pronounced SOOS-ah) ...
I was told that it was SOO-say.
Everyone I know at SuSE pronounces it SOOS-AH. Even at HQ over
in Nuremberg.
Regards, Jim
So what does SuSE mean? Anyting? How do the SuSErians pronounce it?
Leland
SuSE was established as Gesellschaft fõr Software-und
Systementwicklung mbH, and later changed to Software und
System Entwicklung (Software and System Development),
providing the manageable German acronym by which users now
know and love the distribution.
Cool. Thx. Was always
Hello,
I'm native german.
It's difficult for me to explain to english speaking people my pronounciation
of SuSE in written english, but I give it a try:
the U as in smooth and the E as in eleanor (rigby) :-)
the S is NOT pronounced ts, never, but C is sometimes pronounced like ts,
see below. Z
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