liveinabin Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 The XP in Microsofts little monster stands for Mac OS 'X' 'P'lagiarism Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eckhard Stolberg Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Russ Perry Jr: in Greek it's "chi" -- though I'm not sure if it's properly pronounced like "k" or like the "ch" in Jewish (as in "l'chaim", the toast) or German (like in "Bach"). I think in Greek "chi" is pronounced similar to the English "she", but with more of a hissing sound. Similar to the "ch" in "Bach", but with the tongue a bit more up. Basically you form your mouth to say the "e" like in "she" and then exhale a bit before you actually say the vowel. (Did anyone really try that? ) And the "Where do you want to go today?" slogan, that you mentioned, always sounded to me like something that William H. Wolf III. would ask Little Red Riding Hood when she was going to the grandmother's house. And we all know how that story ended. Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriana Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 Xype, rhymes with "hype." Somewhat appropriate, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 quote: Originally posted by Eckhard Stolberg: I think in Greek "chi" is pronounced similar to the English "she" I'm pretty sure that it rhymes with "eye"... but I could be wrong. My only source for pronounciation of greek letters is my engineering prof's, and some of them pronounce omega as "O-miga" (emphasis on the O), which is completely wrong as far as I know (I pronounce it "oh MEH ga", emphasis on MEH) --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liveinabin Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 If this gets to a third page, I swear I'm gonna become a Nun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted January 4, 2002 Share Posted January 4, 2002 In the phonetic alphabet "i" is pronounced as "ee". Now, I don't know if Greek is phonetic. Hmm, but if "chi" should be pronounced like "she", then the proper pronunciation of XP approaches "zero". Heh heh... (PS -- dig the "(Mac OS)XP(lagiarism)" suggestion :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 5, 2002 Share Posted January 5, 2002 quote: Originally posted by liveinabin: If this gets to a third page, I swear I'm gonna become a Nun. Yes, this has surprised me as well. I figured it was cut and dry as "Zype", no questions asked. Boy, was I wrong! Next time I need to choose a name for a company (or anything, for that matter), I'm going to be sure there's no ambiguity in how to pronounce it. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyp Posted January 5, 2002 Share Posted January 5, 2002 I'm not kidding with the xp xperience thing. There is a screen saver in windows xp which actually says Windows eXPerience. Go to screen savers, Flying Objects and there you go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liveinabin Posted January 5, 2002 Share Posted January 5, 2002 I'm not kidding you know!.. it's gonna be the Sound of Music all over again if this continues! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyp Posted January 5, 2002 Share Posted January 5, 2002 I'd love to see that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagMax667 Posted January 5, 2002 Share Posted January 5, 2002 Oh man! I'm confused. Zipe, hipe, shipe, zi-pee, or kzipe? Which is it? I always pronounced it "zipe." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skatepunk60 Posted January 5, 2002 Share Posted January 5, 2002 Know what would be a good idea type XYPE into one of those talking programs where you type a sentance and it pronounces all the words for you and then see how it says it. My neighbors used to have a old mac with that on it LATER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nateo Posted January 5, 2002 Share Posted January 5, 2002 I think that this is one of those things that you can pronounce in many different ways. Kind of like how us Americans say "skedule" and Britons say "chedule." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liveinabin Posted January 5, 2002 Share Posted January 5, 2002 Good suggestion, I typed Xype into my mac and got it to say it in lots of voices. It was more like Zype (oddly enough, the best rendition of it was in the voice' Albert' oooh), well - it really said Zy'te but the Zy bit was definately there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nateo Posted January 9, 2002 Share Posted January 9, 2002 Guess we're not going to see liveinabin become a Nun... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid_sky Posted January 9, 2002 Share Posted January 9, 2002 "Where do you want to go today?" Hello windows, i would like to go to the internet "Screw you, you are going to the blue screen" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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