Settings

The page will reload to apply your changes.
Theme

ASCII Art Font

ASCII Art Menu

Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 5 Jan 1995.
Re: GIF prononciation. Word from the CREATOR!

Re: GIF prononciation. Word from the CREATOR!

In article <3e9lta$c5...@hpscit.sc.hp.com>,
Mike Nakagawa <mik...@news.an.hp.com> wrote:
|> Point: How do you pronounce LaTeX?  Pronunciation rules say: 'lay teks';
|> computer users say 'la tech'.

Actually I think Don Knuth borrowed TeX from Greek, and in Greek it's
pronunced as 'tek'?  Since LaTeX is built upon TeX, it's naturally 'laytek'.

|> My vote has just changed from 'soft g' to 'both/either' as in 'gibberish'.

Agree ...
-- 
"A little Dobbs'll do you."
                - Emle O'Day

Original message headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f996b,4c937612bafa20dd
X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-05 15:45:41 PST
Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!news.amherst.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!uhog.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.starnet.net!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!beijing
From: bei...@garnet.berkeley.edu (Jennifer N. Young)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: GIF prononciation.  Word from the CREATOR!
Date: 5 Jan 1995 14:10:04 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 14
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3egujs$5p...@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <001...@nyo.com> <3e7qdu$1g...@nntp1.u.washington.edu> <3e84r9$kl...@netnews.upenn.edu> <3e9lta$c5...@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu
About this message. This message was posted publicly to the newsgroup alt.ascii-art in 1995 and is mirrored here unchanged as part of the Historic Archives – only email addresses are masked. The artwork and text belong to their original authors: if you copy a piece, keep the artist's initials or signature intact and credit them where you can. Are you the author? Contact us to get your posts attributed, connected to your artist profile, or removed.