Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Sven R. Kunze" Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Learning Python (or Haskell) makes you a worse programmer Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 12:23:10 +0200 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <56f9cffb$0$1614$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <56FA00EC.80909@gmail.com> <56FA537F.9090506@mail.de> <56FB0FF6.3000305@harvee.org> <56FBA577.6070607@mail.de> <56FBA719.5020105@timgolden.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de sWxNlKh25BgQ6i+2dxlVFgqSKuJUD5/iM1pQd5pz/HiQ== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.004 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'pycon': 0.03; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'variant': 0.07; 'anymore.': 0.09; 'python': 0.10; 'talks': 0.11; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'subject:Learning': 0.16; 'subject:programmer': 0.16; 'tjg': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'say,': 0.18; 'meant': 0.22; 'recognize': 0.22; 'slightly': 0.23; 'second': 0.24; 'tim': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'recorded': 0.29; "i'm": 0.30; 'too.': 0.30; 'subject:) ': 0.32; 'received:10.0': 0.34; 'quite': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; '(and': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:10': 0.37; 'say': 0.37; 'sure': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'still': 0.40; 'received:de': 0.40; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.62; 'hear': 0.64; 'american': 0.69; 'subject:you': 0.85 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=mail.de; s=mail201212; t=1459333391; bh=65ckCHOVT5x2yx0gD4t+cVgAj85a2MKoM72f+Il2Kq0=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=LGLiim8EsrshGKIXtptUTvpNwBm46/yzIsOfkUvCJFDFmluK/Xg06/SI8aiU5iwUK 22UUS3sMo1INZuOw82Rw9Ru7gGl5qpVayq3TALunbWp1xM8m9q1GHKW0S6ZPbnvmwG NkGlSyK/racO7UX6HyhQ3rZ/VLbZ3JyHKigRDcgM= In-Reply-To: <56FBA719.5020105@timgolden.me.uk> X-purgate: clean X-purgate: This mail is considered clean (visit http://www.eleven.de for further information) X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-Ad: Categorized by eleven eXpurgate (R) http://www.eleven.de X-purgate: This mail is considered clean (visit http://www.eleven.de for further information) X-purgate: clean X-purgate-size: 593 X-purgate-ID: 154282::1459333391-000018ED-F5800D3D/0/0 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:106043 On 30.03.2016 12:14, Tim Golden wrote: > Not that you quite meant this, but I'm always amused (and still a little > startled) when I listen to talks recorded from, say, PyCon and hear > people with American accents pronouncing Python with the stress on the > slightly longer second syllable. > > (I don't know how other English-speaking groups say the word, but in > England the first syllable is stressed and the second is the > conventional short "uh" sound). > > TJG I recognize this too. I also started with the England variant but now I am not so sure anymore. :D Sven