Jack comments on Word Pronunciation - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Oscar_Cunningham 10 September 2011 02:25PM

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Comment author: Jack 10 September 2011 02:57:28PM *  2 points [-]

In the first two the o's are long and the u's and e's are short. "Mode"- "us" (like the english words) "Pone" (long o), "Toll" (as in booth) "enz".

Hofstadter I've heard pronounced with the second 't' silent and the 'a' pronounced as a short 'e'. The 'o' is short. Hoff- stedder. Jaynes, I believe is just a long 'a', silent e. Parfit is "par" as in "par for the course" and "fit" as in "you should exercise to get fit".

Comment author: Will_Newsome 10 September 2011 03:03:05PM 0 points [-]

Moar liek modus pwnens. "Fool just got modus pwned!" (Though modus tollens tends to pwn more in practice... logic doesn't make any sense.)