Hallo, the thread seems already long enough, but as we talk so much about it, I have to say two things:
1. Bernhard has stated correctly, as to my language feeling, that the pronounciation should be like myu-zicks-tech, the first X like saying "musics", which does obviously make sense, and the final X like the Greek chi, which leads to: 2. TeX and the X pronounced as the Greek chi is absolutely NOT like "Bach" or "Loch"! There are two very different versions of "ch", the Bach and Loch version being more deep throat and ugly, and the chi and TeX version being softer and higher, it is somewhat a relative to "fffff". The vowel just before the "ch" in question decides about that: a, o and u call for the darker Bach/Loch pronounciation, and e and i call for the softer chi/TeX version. A well-known German example for this would be "ich" as well. Unfortunately, I have never heard anyone say "blecchhh", but from the rule above, it would be a softer version as well. By the way, this decision-from-vowel is the same for French and Italian, for the latter look at how a "c" is pronounced in voci ['vo:tshi] and Luca ['luka], and here the vowel *following* decides about the pronounciation of the "c". (Maurizio and Luigi may correct me if I am wrong.) So please forget about Bach and Loch, that's not it. I think we need a spoken version as mp3 or something which is commonly available... :-) Just like the file where you can hear Linus Torvalds pronouncing "Linux". Best regards, Jürgen > From: Bernhard Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [TeX-music] Pronunciation of MusiXTeX > To: Typesetting music with TeX <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > The difficulty seems to be that the two X do not have the same origin. > The first stands, as I think, for something like eXtended (in the sends > of enhanced). About the second Donald Kuth tells us in "The TeXbook", > chapter 1 "The Name of the Game": "Insiders pronounce the $\chi$ of > \TeX\ as a Greek chi, not as an `x', so that \TeX\ rhymes with the word > blecchhh. It's the `ch' sound in Scottish words like {\sl loch\/} or > German words like {\sl ach\/}; it's a Spanish `j' and a Russian `kh'. > When you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become > slightly moist." > > Thus, pronounciation should be perhaps myu-zicks-tech. > > bernhard __________________________________________________________________________ Erweitern Sie FreeMail zu einem noch leistungsstarkeren E-Mail-Postfach! Mehr Infos unter http://freemail.web.de/home/landingpad/?mc=021131 _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [email protected] http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
