From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 0: 6:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A9537B8A7 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 00:06:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA82682; Tue, 16 May 2000 09:06:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 09:06:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200005160706.JAA82682@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How is "TeX" typically pronounced? X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: <8fnnfg$2idm$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Organization: Administration TU Clausthal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In list.freebsd-chat Greg Lehey wrote: > What vowel is in TeX? What you're effectively saying is that you'd > pronounce "TeX" and "TeXnik" with different sounds. Well, I don't know how "TeXnik" is supposed to be pronounced (whether it's like "TeX" or like "Technik"). Anyhow, personally I pronounce both the same, and I believe that I don't pronounce "TeX" correctly, according to Knuth. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message