I heard a little opinion piece on BBC Radio Four a few months ago talking about "jihad". They wre trying to say that it'd be nice if "jihad" could be re-claimed for "spiritual struggle", and they offered another word to use for terrorists. But I've forgotton what that other word was. Any ideas? The speaker wanted to make sure that terrorist actions were not associated with glory, the word was quite negative.
In August of 1992, some of the readers of the Usenet newsgroups sci.lang and alt.usage.english got fed up with common in which posters tried to describe how words were pronounced (by them or in dialects under discussion) by reference to how other words were pronounced (by the author). Since individuals pronounce different words differently, this tended to lead to (occasionally interesting, but often merely) long, fruitless threads.
There already was a scheme occasionally used for noting transcription, but it suffered from (among other things) the fact that it was highly skewed toward describing English. This made it less than useful for the denizens of sci.lang.
Since there already existed a notation (the International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA) for precisely specifying phonemic and phonetic values, several of us decided that it couldn't be too hard to put together a reasonable transcription scheme of IPA into 7-bit ASCII characters.
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HenryTMensch
New York, NY
December 2004
FEB 09, 2005 08:45 AM
EbolaMoca said:
And they were known as Tusken Raiders when I was little!@!
[Edited on Feb 09, 2005 by EbolaMoca]
George Lucas is a racist.
Star Wars is the ultimate orientalist fantasy.
boo.
EbolaMoca
Tustin, CA
February 2005
FEB 09, 2005 04:15 AM