8 Dec
2002
8 Dec
'02
8:46 p.m.
On Monday 09 December 2002 01.01, David Gerard Matthews wrote:
[...]
Yeah, when I went to buy a SCSI Zip disk a few years
ago when I was
living in Austria, I was surprised
to learn that they pronounce SCSI Es-Tseh-Es-I (in other words,
exactly as the individual letters are pronounced
in German.) In the US we say "scuzzy". I kept saying "Haben Sie
ein scuzzy Zip-Laufwerk?" and getting strange
looks.
Then germans definitely *are* more in favor of spelling than swedes.
We almost exclusively use the US pronounciation. And we have a
tendency of shortening and simplifying ordinary words as well.
(Nothing like the danes, though! :-) I guess this is related.
It's also really rather off-topic, isn't it? :-)
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