--- Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com> wrote:
> Rumor has it that Sellam Ismail may have mentioned these words:
>
> >Are you pronouncing it correctly, i.e. "tsoo-zeh"? Or in the Greek
> "Zeus" fashion?
>
> We could pull a Linus Torvalds and say "I don't care how it's said as
> long as everyone uses it! ;-)
Tomahto-Tomayto?
> ...I have a friend who's actually quite good with computers still says
> he's got an 800 MegaHurt machine...
Maybe he would learn how to pronounce it if you dropped his computer
on his foot 800 million times? :-)
> otherwise my vote is with the German enunciation; it still irks me to
> hear people call those German sports cars a "porch")
One of my housemates loves to joke when being passed by one... "look
(in the mirror)... it's a back porch... now it's a side porch...
now, I guess it's a front porch".
And, of course, the punchline, "I'm all done with the painting, but I
gotta tell ya, Lady, that ain't no porch, that's a Ferrari."
-ethan
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Received on Thu Apr 18 2002 - 15:32:58 BST