X-Received: by 10.66.84.164 with SMTP id a4mr1714140paz.26.1358549215484; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:46:55 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.7.244 with SMTP id m20mr1276067iga.14.1358549215245; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:46:55 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!ld4no9653413pbb.0!news-out.google.com!s9ni24pbb.0!nntp.google.com!ld4no9653407pbb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:46:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=130.76.32.218; posting-account=_7xgmwoAAADi7iXKBO-oX5zbCfSzsCV0 NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.76.32.218 References: <6dejf896q0649lkcdq4qgirvlvoo7tn8gc@4ax.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <8ab11792-2824-4f1f-a687-e86f7fad73e3@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Java digits pronunciation From: FredK Injection-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:46:55 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21548 On Friday, January 18, 2013 1:36:39 PM UTC-8, Daniel Pitts wrote: > On 1/18/13 1:08 PM, Tim Slattery wrote: > ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan = Ram) wrote: > > >> In fact, in another bus, later, I heard another person, = a >> boy, speaking English in an American way, who said =EF=BF=BDWhat did >= > he do/say?=EF=BF=BD (or something like this) pronounced as =EF=BF=BDWhat = did >> he do slash say?=EF=BF=BD - I never heard this use of =EF=BF=BDslash= =EF=BF=BD before! > > IM(NS)HO, that's ugly. It's certainly not typical her= e. > I've heard it, but more often that's pronounced "or" rather than "slas= h" when used in an utterance. But pronouncing the "slash" is getting more common, especially in light of= =20 the Web (Ugh!). What bothers me is when people say "forward slash" instead = of=20 just "slash".