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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 April 2009 07:40:44PM 2 points [-]

Well now I'm torn. Damn it, in writing, "beisutsukai" looks far better than "beizutsukai" and it may even sound better.

Comment author: SoullessAutomaton 25 April 2009 08:20:07PM *  3 points [-]

Could always handwave something about the fictional world in which the beisutsukai exist as having drifted norms of English pronunciation such that a word-terminal "s" is never voiced, making "Bayes" sound like "base".

Other than that, though, beizu remains more accurate, unfortunately.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 26 April 2009 03:52:36AM 0 points [-]

Not to me. z's are inherently cooler than s's.

Comment author: JulianMorrison 27 April 2009 01:04:18AM -1 points [-]

You've already coined the word. Too late to change it!