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From: jkb@sdcrdcf.UUCP (John Barbee)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: SF Pronunciation
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Date: Mon, 25-Jun-84 17:13:43 EDT
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Subject: Pronunciation
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers

     I was having a discussion about the upcoming Dune movie with my
friend on the way to work this morning, and the conversation got around
to the pronunciation of people, places, and things in general in the
world of sci-fi.  She was saying that when she reads an "unpronouncable"
word, she stops trying to pronounce it altogether because a) she doesn't
want to go to the trouble every time of trying to remember how she said
it the last time or, b) doesn't want to mis-pronounce (read: pronounce
it differently than the author intended here) the word.
     I saw an interview with a relatively well-known sci-fi author (Asimov
or Bradbury or ?) sometime back, and on the same subject he said that he
didn't care how people pronounced the words in his books.
If he was concerned about how they were pronounced, he would include
a glossary/dictionary with pronunciations in the back of the book.  I'm
     I'm curious as to how y'all out there feel about and deal with this
problem.

                                        Yours until the gophers come home,

                                        jb