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From: m.welle@gmx.net (Michael Welle)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix, eunuchs?
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:19:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8764j5bjz7.fsf@hqltmwe01.nwc-services.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44843C2A.1010207@icpnet.pl> (Andrzej Popielewicz's message of "Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:14:02 +0200")

Hi,

Andrzej Popielewicz <vasco at icpnet.pl> writes:
[...]
> Well, I cannot "reproduce it" in my mind this funny feeling I suspect, 
> as not natively Enlish speaking.
> Hopefully it helped the Unix .Does it cause the smile every time You 
> hear it ?
> Even now knowing it I will probably ,hearing or reading the word "Unix", 
> not associate it with "eunuch".Probably because I have coded Polish 
> pronounciation in my mind, or in other words I mostly think in
> Polish.
same here. Except the starting syllable the terms sound totally
different for me. The form of my mouth is different if I speak the
words. That makes the whole story incredible for me.


>>>It is clear , that opinion of American/English linguistic/language 
>>>specialist would be neccesarry.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>I am not a specialist, but I am a generalist with a good understanding
>>of the domain.
>>
>>  
>>
> Your opinion is sufficient.I appreciate.
FACK.

Michael

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-13  7:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-03 13:57 Michael Welle
2006-06-04 20:44 ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-06-05 10:41 ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-06-05 11:20   ` Tim Bradshaw
2006-06-05 13:49   ` John Cowan
2006-06-05 14:14     ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-06-05 14:26       ` Wilko Bulte
2006-06-05 15:02       ` John Cowan
2006-06-13  7:19       ` Michael Welle [this message]
2006-06-05 15:13     ` Ian King
2006-06-13  7:40   ` Michael Welle
     [not found] ` <001001c6875d$69b02e60$2f01a8c0@myhome.westell.com>
2006-06-13  7:20   ` Michael Welle
2006-06-05 15:57 James Petts
2006-06-05 16:28 ` John Cowan
2006-06-06  3:41 dmr
2006-06-06  8:21 ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-06-06  8:24   ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-06-06  8:26     ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-06-06 10:56       ` Andrzej Popielewicz
2006-06-06  7:18 Jose R Valverde
2006-06-06 13:58 ` John Cowan
2006-06-07  2:32 dmr
     [not found] <mailman.5.1149732001.42765.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2006-06-08  5:22 ` John Chung
2006-06-09  8:30   ` Paul Osborne

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