Author: Albert Silver
Date: 08:43:05 07/27/99
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On July 27, 1999 at 08:40:34, Harald Faber wrote:
>On July 27, 1999 at 08:06:30, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On July 26, 1999 at 19:59:15, KarinsDad wrote:
>>
>>>Will's offhanded comment of a name of KDCP reminded me that I probably should
>>>come up with a name for my chess playing program.
>>>
>>>Does anyone have a recommendation?
>>>
>>>KarinsDad :)
>>
>>SubtleOne
>>
>>(this is actually the name of my ICC comp account but feel free :-) )
>>
>> Albert Silver
>
>You should really go on coffee drinking, seems as if you aren't awake yet. ;-)
>SubtleOne is neither easy to spell nor easy to pronounce :-)
It IS easy to pronounce, though perhaps not obvious at first.
/SU-tel-wun/ (remember the 'w' is not like the german one, which in English
would sound like a 'v') though in any case I should have separated both words as
it isn't a compound noun (the servers don't accept spaces in names which is why
they are together): Subtle One.
English pronunciation is a nightmare though for many words. I got a job last
year pronouncing words for a multimedia translation dictionary and I had never
previously realized just how many exceptions or alternate pronunciations there
are. Many words admit three or four different possibilities in which case the
only thing to remember isn't how it IS pronounced but how it ISN'T. A lot of
languages suffer from similar issues, though Portuguese, interestingly enough,
isn't one of them. Back in 1942 it underwent a major revision when mute letters
and odd spellings were entirely removed from the language. Words like
'telePHone' are now spelled 'teleFone' (the 'e' at the end is pronounced in
Portuguese BTW), plus the stress points were all clarified with accents placed
over the vowels of the pertinent syllables in order to immediately identify
them. Thus the word 'Psicologo' has an accent over the the first 'o' identifying
the stressed syllable, and the 'p' and 's' are both pronounced. It's very simple
once you master some of the language's more unique sounds. On the other hand,
it's grammatical structure is very similar to French's, and therefore leaves a
LOT to be desired.
Albert Silver
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