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Re: Political Correctness

On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Krzysztof Kozminski wrote:

> Not to start a flamefest, but why bother to pronounce 'prz' correctly
> and horribly distort the rest (the whole thing should be: pshe-val-skee-ee)?

Touche. :)  'cause I wasn't a Polish major and have about half the memory
of what polish letters do. :)  (Illustrating my point, I guess, by a case
in point!) 
 
> My pet peeve is "rhododendrum".  Gag.   And any time the latin ending
> 'ii' ends up pronounced "ee-eye".  Yuck.

Yeah - but the ee vs ee-eye is a choice - different "scholarly" ways of
pronouncing latin; I forgot the names for the two schools.  I find the
ee-eye helpful because it distinguishes from plain "i" and "eae" which
is usually pronounced "ee-ee."
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