Computer geek sentence

[nq:1]Can anyone suggest a sentence whose correct pronunciation indicates that you're a computer geek? Something with "Linux" and "ethernet" is all I can come up with this morning ... maybe after those odd IBM commercials maybe everyone will know how to say Linux?[/nq]
How many syllables are there in `coax'?

SAm.

[nq:2]Can anyone suggest a sentence whose correct pronunciation indicates that ... IBM commercials maybe everyone will know how to say Linux?[/nq]
[nq:1]How many syllables are there in `coax'?[/nq]
And then there are the pronounced unpronouncables like EBCDIC and SCSI.

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[nq:1]Can anyone suggest a sentence whose correct pronunciation indicates that you're a computer geek? Something with "Linux" and "ethernet" is all I can come up with this morning ... maybe after those odd IBM commercials maybe everyone will know how to say Linux?[/nq]
If you cannot come up with more geek terms then you're definitely not a geek )

[nq:2]Can anyone suggest a sentence whose correct pronunciation indicates that ... IBM commercials maybe everyone will know how to say Linux?[/nq]
[nq:1]If you cannot come up with more geek terms then you're definitely not a geek

[nq:1]If they read "ASCII" as "A-S-C-two", they're not computer geeks.[/nq]
I once heard it pronunced "asky 2". I guess he just wanted to make sure.

John Varela
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[nq:1]And then there are the pronounced unpronouncables like EBCDIC and SCSI.[/nq]
Any IEEE standard pronounced "I triple-E".
Which reminds me of the time a member of the National Transportation Safety Board a politician from Maine addressed the Air Traffic Control Association convention. When he came to ARTCC, a facility everyone in aviation refers to as a "Center", he carefully articulat

[nq:2]If they read "ASCII" as "A-S-C-two", they're not computer geeks.[/nq]
[nq:1]I once heard it pronunced "asky 2". I guess he just wanted to make sure.[/nq]
And NTSC is pronounced "Never Twice the Same Colour".

David
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[nq:1]I can't offhand think of anything that doesn't have regional variation within the community of computer people that also has a pronunciation that isn't the one likely to be used by outsiders. If they read "ASCII" as "A-S-C-two", they're not computer geeks.[/nq]
Or "A-S-C-eye-eye", captain.
I've heard "baud" pronounced to rhyme with "crowd" definitely not by a computer aficionado.

[nq:2]Can anyone suggest a sentence whose correct pronunciation indicates that ... IBM commercials maybe everyone will know how to say Linux?[/nq]
[nq:1]How many syllables are there in `coax'?[/nq]
That's not specific to computer aficionados, though; any (radio) ham or TV enthusiast would know that.

Ray Heindl
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[nq:1]And then there are the pronounced unpronouncables like EBCDIC and SCSI.[/nq]
I'm with Daniel here. No geek would have a problem with these two, yet they are probably unfathomable to the non-geeky.

DJ

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