Re: [linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Plugin APIs (again)
From: David Olofson (david_AT_olofson.net)
Date: Mon Dec 09 2002 - 02:41:23 EET

On Monday 09 December 2002 01.01, David Gerard Matthews wrote:
[...]
> Yeah, when I went to buy a SCSI Zip disk a few years ago when I was
> living in Austria, I was surprised
> to learn that they pronounce SCSI Es-Tseh-Es-I (in other words,
> exactly as the individual letters are pronounced
> in German.) In the US we say "scuzzy". I kept saying "Haben Sie
> ein scuzzy Zip-Laufwerk?" and getting strange
> looks.

Then germans definitely *are* more in favor of spelling than swedes.
We almost exclusively use the US pronounciation. And we have a
tendency of shortening and simplifying ordinary words as well.
(Nothing like the danes, though! :-) I guess this is related.

It's also really rather off-topic, isn't it? :-)

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