Re: li! (Was: Re: Naming mp3 players and Yakuza was Re:

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:32:07PM -0500, Douglas Koller, Latin & French wrote:
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> >No, of course not.  He didn't choose the name, though; he wanted to call
> >it Freax ("free" + "freak" + "Unix"), but the administrator of the FTP
> >site where Linux was first released from thought "Linux" a better name.
> >Most Americans, at least, make the latter ['lInUks] although ['linUks]
> >is certainly acceptable.  People who say ['lainVks] are beyond the pale.
>
> Egads, am I beyond the pale? At least on the pre-vocal level, I read
> it to myself as if it were the Charles Schultz character with a binky
> [lainVks]. If I actually had to *say* it, I'd probably opt for
> [linUks]. All of this would assume I had the vaguest idea as to what
> I was talking about (well, it's something computery).
Linus Torvalds (not Schultz' Linus) himself pronounces his own name as
["linus] or ["linUs]. That's why John is saying that ["linUks] makes more
sense than ["lainUks].


T

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