[ale] pronunciation

[Jim Popovitch]

--- Christopher Bergeron <christopher at bergeron.com> wrote:
> Actually, people that say  "line" "ucks" for some reason 
> lose credibility...

What!?!  how so?  Is there really only one proper way to say 
every word?


> so either of your pronunciations work fine... using LINE UCKS you'll
> get
> corrected rather quickly...
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Frank
> Zamenski
> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 4:33 PM
> To: ALE
> Subject: Re: [ale] pronunciation
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for resolving that. I've read also that 'eiter' is correct.
> Related... I pronounce Linux as Lin-ucks.
> Others say Lee-nix, sounds like Kleenix... or Robert E. Lee[nux]? :)
> So, am I 'paper'?
> I guess I don't much care as it's said Linus himself doesn't care how
> its pronounced either. ;)
> 
> -fgz
> 
> 
> From: "Sue Bauer-Lee" <sblee at tazmania.org>
> To: "Christopher Bergeron" <christopher at bergeron.com>
> Cc: "Ale" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 3:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] pronunciation
> 
> 
> > I couldn't resist. :)  Eiter is correct.
> >
> >
> > daemon
> >
> > <operating system> /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ (From the mythological
> meaning,
> later
> > rationalised as the acronym "Disk And Execution MONitor") A program
> that
> is
> > not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some
> condition(s) to
> occur.
> > The idea is that the perpetrator of the condition need not be aware
> that a
> > daemon is lurking (though often a program will commit an action
> only
> because
> > it knows that it will implicitly invoke a daemon).
> ..snip..
> 
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