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From: dasher@netcom.com (Anton Sherwood)
Subject: Re: pronouncing math
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Organization: That would be telling.
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Mark Anthony Beadles  <beadles@techsmith.com> says:
: I have noticed other differences between computer science jargon
: dialects.  For example, I pronounce the data type "char" (short
: for "character") as /kejr/.  But I have heard others pronounce
: it as /tSar/. I haven't noticed whether the speaker's geographic
: origian makes a difference.

The dialect boundary might not be on the map, but in quasi- or non-
geographic communities of graduates of different schools.  (Look at
the Hacker's Dictionary for differences between MIT jargon and
Stanford jargon.)  The Plato project (U.of Ill.) used /tSar/, and 
I'd expect people who were there in the Seventies to continue 
saying /tSar/.
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I wasn't always anarcho-capitalist, you know.	--   Ubi scriptum?
