Re: SpaceShipOne News Coverage just a little rough on the edges

From: dave schneider (d_schneider_at_emulex.com)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: 25 Oct 2004 11:14:49 -0700

David Sander <surfren@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message news:<41632C03.C30868E4@bigpond.net.au>...
> Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote:
> >
> > The biggest insult to the world of astromomy

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Merriam-Webster gives the transliteration of the classical Greek as
"Ouranos", the modern spelling includes the tweeks done by the Latins.

>
> There's not much that can be done about it though - it's an integral
> part of the juvenile-sniggering element of language these days...

Yeah, but the pronounciation probably *originated* in misunderstanding
the Greek rules of pronounciation as practiced by upper class
Europeans 19-23 centuries later.

Amercian university included a wider variety of social classes
relatively early in the rise of the middle class, and were probably
quicker to drop classical languages from the course requirements, than
European universities.

/dps

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