Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GNU Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2026 09:11:11 -0800 Organization: A place where nothing fits quite right Lines: 18 Message-ID: <20260304091111.00000429@gmail.com> References: <10o629v$1qssb$1@dont-email.me> <10o6emj$1uql3$5@dont-email.me> <20260303111343.00000572@gmail.com> <20260304080130.000068c7@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:11:15 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ec995a4b0a06fb33b396416dad06a9ca"; logging-data="3138860"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/rvOP8gFCCdbzcWgL8H+pn1oiNfOHU66g=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:07pD+YfnmRje78RCS7satSlaWqA= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82381 On Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:06:56 GMT Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > Yeah, that's an interesting question. I'm no professional linguist, > > but it seems to me that there's a pattern for words with a rising > > tone in the first syllable to have the stress on the second (e.g. > > as-SUME) and I i-MAG-ine it has something to do with that; then > > again, the pattern is already broken in my first sentence. Would > > love to know if there's a formal description of this... > > It's even worse. Consider KILO-gram vs. kil-OM-eter. In the > interests of consistency, I've changed my pronounciation to KILO- > meter. It nicely separates the "kilo" prefix from the unit. Besides, > kil-OG-ram just sounds too weird. Indeed. Very curious if the linguists/philologists have made a study of this at some point.