Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!tank.uchicago.edu!mitchell From: mitchell@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Mitchell Marks) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Hum sounds funny (was: A Hum Domain) Message-ID: Date: 12 Feb 90 23:54:01 GMT References: <3284@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <3285@iitmax.IIT.EDU> <7303@yunexus.UUCP> <_QK1FDExds8@ficc.uu.net> <1990Feb8.063809.21009@agate.berkeley.edu> <144@uncmed.med.unc.edu> Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago Computer Science Lines: 24 In-reply-to: unccab@calico.med.unc.edu's message of 9 Feb 90 14:38:01 GMT I don't understand. Is the problem people are having with 'hum' all based on the pronunciation just like the word? Goodness, haven't you ever been in a context where 'hum' is pronounced /hyum/, that is, like the name Hume? Or is it the case that you ARE pronouncing it that way and objections are based on even that pronunciation? Tell me, how are you pronouncing 'soc'? Surely not /sak/ i.e. "sock", right? Almost everywhere it's /sows^/, "sohsh". Actually, I don't hold with collapsing "humanities" and "human sciences". I still think of the latter under the more traditional and less French name, "social sciences". So from my point of view, it would make sense to scram the current soc.* groups off somewhere else under a new name, and divide the "academic/technical" groups into hum (Humanities), soc (Social Sciences), bio (Biological Sciences), and sci (Physical and Mathematical Sciences). Rationally comp might be argued to fall under the last of those, but this is after all a computer net and it's reasonable that comp should occupy a slot at the top level of the heirarchy. -- Mitch Marks mitchell@cs.UChicago.EDU My uncle is sick, but the road is green.