'Pentium' Name to be axed?

[Phnom_Penh]

Often processor names are two syllables.

Pentium

:\ Pen-Ti-Um.

"Opteron" and "Optron"?

Opty?

the sempron comes from latin origin

Yeh, it means "always". Similar word in Itallian, sempre.

 

[nathan]

i was gonna say, i thought pentium has 3.

 

[Danni]

I say Pentium Pen-ti-um. I say Opteron either Opty or Op-ter-on. I say Aluminium Al-u-min-i-um

I also can speak with Received Pronunciation

 

[PV5150]

Received pronunciation, is that still the most popular way of speaking for non-native Britains? I actually heard it was on the decline, but I have also heard that a lot of young peeps are adopting it. Is this true, please enlighten an Aussie?

 

[Ham]

Little bit of tech news and it turns into a language lesson.

 

[Danni]

Received pronunciation, is that still the most popular way of speaking for non-native Britains? I actually heard it was on the decline, but I have also heard that a lot of young peeps are adopting it. Is this true, please enlighten an Aussie?

If they haven't learnt to speak English through American films/tv shows, then yes. Especially Europeans (my Dutch and Beligian friends all speak with Received Pronunciation).

I learnt it through drama classes at school, and my mother was quite hot on the way I said things, though she used to be an actress

 

[FarFarAway]

Look you guys not being funny but pen-ti-um is two syllables

Want me to into the Linguistics? OK:

Pen - right fine: onset=p, mora (or syllable nucleus)=en. The en is a simple light nucleaic mora

tium - onset=t, mora (or syllable nucleus)=ium. The iu is a vowel glide that represents a heavy mora, with a closing m. VERY simplified terms and debated but thats one easy way of putting it.

Now Phnom_Penh - unless your a professor in linguistics don't talk about what you know nothing about.

Thanks you

kemp

EDIT: Source: Roca, I. & Johnson, W. 1999. A Course in Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell.

EDIT II: "opty" yes - serves to further prove the theory.

 

[Danni]

Fair enough. I'm always being told I talk funny anyway

 

[PV5150]

Mr kempez is correct, I can vouch for him and he is more than qualified to comment on the subject anyway. Btw thanks Danni for the clarification

 

[FarFarAway]

Mr kempez is correct, I can vouch for him and he is more than qualified to comment on the subject anyway. Btw thanks Danni for the clarification

Ta PV mate

 

[FragTek]

Phnon_Penh = :0wned:

:rollingla

 

[Phnom_Penh]

Now Phnom_Penh - unless your a professor in linguistics don't talk about what you know nothing about.

Thanks you

kemp

Nope, my area's acoustic/phonolgical working memory (Miller, B&H etc)

I find myself knowing that you are right, but I'm bored so I'll say what I would have put before.

I would have said that you have three syllables, as you have /P E N/ /T I/ /U M/.

PEN is the first syllable, light, with P as the onset, E is a nucleus, and N is the coda. Then you have TI, T is the onset, and I is the nucleus, without a coda, again light. Then UM, there is no onset, U is the nucleus and M is the coda.

I'll agree with TIUM being one heavy syllable. Before I would have said tī-əm as two , but I would presume the first part of the vowel would raise the second, which would make it a heavy syllable... (diphphong?)

I've always looked at it as pèn-tī-əm, rather than pènt-æm. But I'll you would know far more than me, as 1. It isn't my area 2. English isn't my primary language.

 

[FarFarAway]

Ah you study phonetics - ok then

Yeah English dictates that the iu be treated as a vowel diphthong: iə

Approximate

Depending on accent variation of course

Man been a while since I done this stuff

EDIT: This has gone totally off topic so closed by my good friend Dave

If you wanna discuss Linguistics anytime drop into the "off-topic" section