army1987 comments on Little Johny Bayesian - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Darmani 18 March 2009 09:30PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 15 December 2013 09:21:41AM *  0 points [-]

See here about words like “fire”. IIRC he also considers “real” to be varisyllabic; and probably there are people out there who pronounce “Bayesian” with two syllables, to rhyme with (young people's pronunciation of) “Asian”¹. (I can find many posts about compression and smoothing but none which summarizes it all.)


  1. I read that some old people pronounce “Asian” to rhyme with “nation”.