Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-19 Thread Richard Heck
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the difference between the vowel sound Swedes/Norwegians make when pronouncing "LyX" compared to eg "licks". This kind of differen

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 16 July 2006 03:57 am, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:16:12PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... > > > > > >It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 05:16:12PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... > > >It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the difference > >between the vowel sound Swedes/Norwegians ma

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-18 Thread Richard Downing
Ed Gatzke wrote: Why can't computer people come up with pronounceable names like Windows, Word, and Excel? You do know that they are pronounced: Windowz, Wierd, and ExChill - don't you? R

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-17 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed Gatzke wrote: > Why can't computer people come up with pronounceable names like Windows, > Word, and Excel? Because we don't get to be as smug and superior. :p Dan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEu+k9lFI7BN

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-17 Thread Ed Gatzke
> > It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the > > difference between the vowel sound Swedes/Norwegians make when > > pronouncing "LyX" compared to eg "licks". I thought it was always "licks", but I could see people using "leeks". And LaTeX was always la-Tech, not lay-tech

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... I suspect that the sound snippet where Linus Torvalds pronounces "linux" helped promote linux quite a bit... Not to mention settling more than a few arguments -- as the

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-16 Thread Anders Dahnielson
On 7/16/06, Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ___/ On Sun 16 Jul 2006 01:16:12 BST, [ Rich Shepard ] wrote : \___ > On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... > >> It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-16 Thread Roy Schestowitz
___/ On Sun 16 Jul 2006 01:16:12 BST, [ Rich Shepard ] wrote : \___ On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the difference between the vowel sound Swedes/Norwegians make

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The pronounciation bit is pretty interesting though... It is also interesting how you Americans usually can't hear the difference between the vowel sound Swedes/Norwegians make when pronouncing "LyX" compared to eg "licks". More like "leeks,"

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juergen has written the page http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation that explains a bit about how "LyX" is pronounced. We are however missing sound files that examplify how different people, users and develo

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juergen has written the page http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation that explains a bit about how "LyX" is pronounced. We are however missing sound files that examplify how different people, users and developers, actually pronounce the word. Havin

Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi Juergen has written the page http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation that explains a bit about how "LyX" is pronounced. We are however missing sound files that examplify how different people, users and developers, actually pronounce the word. Since the developers are busy on more productive