Re: GIF prononciation. Word from the CREATOR!
/||_ _ |_ _ _ _ /~~ _ _ __ _ | _ , /~||_)|~(_|| )(_|| | ) (__)(_)| )/_(_||_(/_/_) writes: >Frankly, whoever invented >a new word should have the final say. yup. it really bothers me that almost everyone speaking English is pronouncing the vowels all wrong. like when the word "cow" was invented, it was supposed to be pronounced /ku/. but then came the Great Vowel Shift, and suddenly everyone was using weird diphthongs like /ei/ for long "a" instead of /a/. I wish everyone would pronounce vowels the way they're really supposed to be. (wow, this thread is lasting longer than the "show your sig" thread.) --
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,4c937612bafa20dd X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-01 19:56:13 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!psuvax1!psuvax1!flee From: fle...@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: GIF prononciation. Word from the CREATOR! Date: 02 Jan 1995 03:56:16 GMT Organization: Penn State Comp Sci & Eng Lines: 14 Message-ID: <FLE...@smalltalk.cse.psu.edu> References: <001...@nyo.com> <3e2sti$m1...@netnews.upenn.edu> <3e7qdu$1g...@nntp1.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: smalltalk.cse.psu.edu
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