Just a little amusement observed... :-)
Quite early today, Tuesday, I was having my breakfast and watching the
TV where they were having a discussion about AI (Not the original AI.
being Bull and Horse Sperm) but the modern one...
It was a bit past 5:00 and I wasn't really taking much notice, but I
nearly choked on my slurp of tea when someone was talking about Ada
Lovelace, but continued to call her Adder Lovelace during the chat.
What can one say... :-/
In article <5b648df214dave@triffid.co.uk>, Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
Just a little amusement observed... :-)
Quite early today, Tuesday, I was having my breakfast and watching the TV where they were having a discussion about AI (Not the original AI. being Bull and Horse Sperm) but the modern one...
It was a bit past 5:00 and I wasn't really taking much notice, but I
nearly choked on my slurp of tea when someone was talking about Ada Lovelace, but continued to call her Adder Lovelace during the chat.
What can one say... :-/
Well, in some sense she was an adder, having worked on the Babbage Engine.
In message <5b6506d57emec@npost.uk> Chris Newman <mec@npost.uk> wrote:
In article <5b648df214dave@triffid.co.uk>, Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk>
wrote:
Just a little amusement observed... :-)
Quite early today, Tuesday, I was having my breakfast and watching
the TV where they were having a discussion about AI (Not the
original AI. being Bull and Horse Sperm) but the modern one...
It was a bit past 5:00 and I wasn't really taking much notice, but
I nearly choked on my slurp of tea when someone was talking about
Ada Lovelace, but continued to call her Adder Lovelace during the
chat.
What can one say... :-/
Well, in some sense she was an adder, having worked on the Babbage
Engine.
You can't take anything away from her achievements.
continued to call her Adder Lovelace during the chat.
On 21/05/2024 3:28 pm, Dave wrote:
continued to call her Adder Lovelace during the chat.
FWIW, this is the standard pronunciation of the name "Ada" across much
of Europe. My daughter's name is Ada, and her mother and all that side
of her family are Czech; in _Češtiny jazyk_ and to all of them, and her Polish friends too, her name is pronounced "Adder".
On 17/07/2024 10:54 am, Harriet Bazley wrote:
"Ardour" with a long A, surely?
Nope. That sound doesn't really exist in Czech I think. The unstressed
"u" is also missing, and that's very widely used in English, as the
terminal schwa sound. We don't say "lett-er" or "butt-er", we say
"let-uh" and "but-uh".
My wife struggles terribly to make "butter" and "batter" sound
different; she says them as the same sound.
"Ada" is "ADD-ah" not "ADD-uh", and no, never ever "ARD-ah" or anything >similar.
"Ardour" with a long A, surely?
Nope. That sound doesn't really exist in Czech I think. The unstressed
"u" is also missing, and that's very widely used in English, as the
terminal schwa sound. We don't say "lett-er" or "butt-er", we say
"let-uh" and "but-uh
On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:00:16 +0100
Liam Proven <lproven+es@cix.co.uk> wrote:
On 17/07/2024 10:54 am, Harriet Bazley wrote:
"Ardour" with a long A, surely?
Nope. That sound doesn't really exist in Czech I think. The unstressed
"u" is also missing, and that's very widely used in English, as the >terminal schwa sound. We don't say "lett-er" or "butt-er", we say
"let-uh" and "but-uh".
My wife struggles terribly to make "butter" and "batter" sound
different; she says them as the same sound.
"Ada" is "ADD-ah" not "ADD-uh", and no, never ever "ARD-ah" or anything >similar.
The 'Ay' sound is physically harder to make than just 'A' of 'Ah', so
maybe some people are just lazy :P {ducks and runs for cover, weaving erratically to avoid missiles}
In my life, now well into dotage, I have met a few old ladies called Ada
and it was never ever pronounced Adder. :-)
In my life, now well into dotage, I have met a few old ladies called Ada
and it was never ever pronounced Adder. 🙂
I recall a TV programme, wasn't it called something like "For the love of Ada, she was always Ada too
On 17/07/2024 5:22 pm, Dave wrote:
In my life, now well into dotage, I have met a few old ladies called
Ada and it was never ever pronounced Adder. #
Ah, yes, but what languages did you speak with them in?
The English pronunciation is EY-duh but most of the world doesn't speak English.
Most names have different pronunciations in different languages.
"David" is "DAY-vid" in English but "dah-VEED" in French and Czech, for instance.
"Peter" is "PEAT-uh" in English
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In article <v7amb2$2b9ln$1@dont-email.me>,
Liam Proven <lproven+es@cix.co.uk> wrote:
On 17/07/2024 5:22 pm, Dave wrote:
In my life, now well into dotage, I have met a few old ladies called
Ada and it was never ever pronounced Adder. #
Ah, yes, but what languages did you speak with them in?
The English pronunciation is EY-duh but most of the world doesn't speak
English.
That's their problem :-)
No, it's not, it's Ay-da
Most names have different pronunciations in different languages.
"David" is "DAY-vid" in English but "dah-VEED" in French and Czech, for
instance.
"Peter" is "PEAT-uh" in English
Not round these parts, it is most definitely peat-er
"David" is "DAY-vid" in English but "dah-VEED" in French and Czech, for instance.
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