[plug] pronunciation, was Re: RE Misinformation and blah blah ...

[Daniel Pearson]

I've got that, its a 3mb .avi file, and can be found by googling it.

Regards,
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Meyer" <meyerri at au1.ibm.com>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:21 AM
Subject: [plug] pronunciation, was Re: RE Misinformation and blah blah ...


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> ----- Forwarded by Richard Meyer/Australia/Contr/IBM on 24/01/2003 08:18
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>                       Mike Holland
>                       <myk at plug.linux.o        To:
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pronunciation, was Re: RE Misinformation and blah blah ...
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> >On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Richard Meyer wrote:
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> >> While you had him, you should have asked him to pronounce Linux in
> English,
> >> 'cause I still prefer lie-nux to linnix (same sound both "i"s).
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> >Too late now, he has a Californian accent. Fortunately a recording exists
> >on one or two websites. eg
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> >http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/torvalds-says-linux.au
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> Is this a new one? There was a .wav going round the 'net at one stage
where
> the man said "Heloo, my name ees Leenoos Torvalds und I pronounce leenooks
> as leenooks". And before anyone tells him that I'm making fun of his
> accent, I freely admit that his English, even then, was streets ahead of
my
> Finnish or Swedish.
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> RichardM
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