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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Pronunciation of 'anything'
Message-ID: <181@splut.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Oct-87 18:14:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: splut.181
Posted: Sat Oct 17 18:14:09 1987
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Summary: Mesa's not the only one...

In article <3084@ames.arpa>, eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene Miya N.) writes:
> //SYSIN DD DATA
> Added short note the Mesa Reference manual has an pronunciation guide in
> its Appendix.  Most amusing.  Perhaps all future language designs should
> do such. ;-)
> 
> I side with Doug Gwyn.  Any company who makes such a fuss must be a sorry
> place to work.  Was the poster from IBM?
> /*

Hm...Eugene, you have been hanging around the guys implementing NASANET too
long :-)...(I'm involved, peripherally, in that effort...)

I seem to recall that Forth was actually intended to be a spoken language as
well, with a (more-or-less) standard pronumciation set. Since it led to
oddities like '@' being pronounced 'fetch', etcetera, I suspect it's not
used much except by the folks at Forth, Inc...

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