Comments on: Space Linguistics https://globalspin.com/2005/01/space-linguistics/ a glimpse into the tiny mind of Chris Radcliff Sat, 01 May 2010 03:53:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 By: Deana https://globalspin.com/2005/01/space-linguistics/comment-page-1/#comment-650 Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:16:54 +0000 http://globalspin.com/wp/2005/01/16/491/#comment-650 Oh, Steve. (Eh, Steve!) Hoygens himself would be so proud! I’m laughing because I’m teaching a culture and language class and last Wednesday afternoon I had about 35 students making similarly throat-clearing sounds, all at the same time… :-)

]]> By: steevo https://globalspin.com/2005/01/space-linguistics/comment-page-1/#comment-649 Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:51:11 +0000 http://globalspin.com/wp/2005/01/16/491/#comment-649 I still can’t say it, but I’ve cleared my throat out a bit and brought my girlfriend into the room to see what the hell I was doing.

]]> By: Chris https://globalspin.com/2005/01/space-linguistics/comment-page-1/#comment-648 Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:38:07 +0000 http://globalspin.com/wp/2005/01/16/491/#comment-648 OK, so how would we transliterate that? Hau-heunss, with a bit of phlegm in the second h?

Reminds me of the “lee-noox”, “lie-nix”, “lih-nux” issue from the last decade. Linus pronounced it “lee-noox” in a much-shared “authoritative audio file”:http://www.safalra.com/science/linguistics/linux.html, but years later it turned out he’d gotten used to calling it “lih-nux” because most people around him did, and he didn’t even mind people calling it “lie-nix”.

]]> By: Karen https://globalspin.com/2005/01/space-linguistics/comment-page-1/#comment-647 Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:21:06 +0000 http://globalspin.com/wp/2005/01/16/491/#comment-647 Yay! Thank you, Deana. We were just talking about it this weekend. BBC America’s reporter on NPR pronounced it “Hoygens”, too. Ah, well. We can’t all speak Dutch. But we can try!

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