Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!bstempleton
From: bstempleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: ut.general
Subject: Re: ClariNet subscription -- RESULTS
Keywords: who?
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Date: 5 Feb 90 06:46:06 GMT
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Reply-To: bstempleton@watmath.waterloo.edu (Brad Templeton)
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I think the phonetic spellings are actually a great idea, but nobody ever
has the guts to put them in newspapers or magazines.

How else do you learn (other than by listening to radio announcers who
got a report like you see in clari.canada.general) how to pronounce
foreign or unusual names?  I thought it was Jim Backer who married Tammy
Faye for a long time, not Jim Baker.

Newspapers seem to feel it would be demeaning to tell people the
pronunciation of slavic names, for example, but I don't see why.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont. (519) 884-7473