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#! rnews 1780 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!news.forth.gr!news-ath.forthnet.gr!news.compulink.gr!usenet From: Cpt.Iglo@Bigfoot.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 22:49:37 GMT Organization: CompuLink Network S.A. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <329f66bc.19193101@news.compulink.gr> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <steve.847913388@fastnet.prd.co.uk> <328bb47a.2221749@news.msn.fullfeed.com> <56n415$5k6@news.ece.nwu.edu> <mjl-2111961156310001@mjl3825.draper.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.compulink.gr X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26819 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1642 alt.folklore.computers:125391 On Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:56:31 GMT, mjl@draper.com (mj leblanc) wrote: > >...and then there are those of us who've been forced to take Latin in the past. > >The Latin dipthong 'ae' is pronounced, roughly, as /eye/, therefore >"daemon" would be pronounced d(eye)mon. > >If I try to pronounce it any other way, I half expect to be brutally >whipped by avenging nuns. > >:mj >-- >Hey, this post may or may not have contained SATIRE, depending upon my mood. For God's Sake, this is a Greek and not an Latin word! It is written as DAIMON (delta-alpha-iota-mi-omega-ni) and is is definitely pronounced as DEMON (I suppose just like lemon, with a clearly heard 'o'). Taking this into account, I believe that the whole conversation is meaningless, since every other pronouncement is incorrect. I would like to add that the GREEK dipthong (in ancient and modern Greek: 'difthongos') is 'ai' which is heard just like 'e' from 'echo'.