From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 17:39:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B2937BA3D for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 17:39:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA00941 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 14 May 2000 10:10:25 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 10:10:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How is "TeX" typically pronounced? Message-ID: <20000514101025.B847@freebie.lemis.com> References: <8fjgg3$70b$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <200005131316.PAA50757@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200005131316.PAA50757@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 13 May 2000 at 15:16:19 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > In list.freebsd-chat Pat Lynch wrote: >> its "techhh" ;) >> haven;t you ever read the TeX book? ;) > > Just for the record, me and most of my friends pronounce TeX > like the German "Technik" (sorry, I don't know an English word > that has that sound). > I know it's not correct, but it's much easier for my German > tongue. :-) Based on the TeXbook, that would be correct. > PS: Yes, I've read the TeX book. "It's the 'ch' sound in ... German words like ach". What's the problem? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message