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[mojoey]

I'll just leave this here...

Best seat in the house.

Until they climb...

 

[Pipcard]

A long time ago, I thought that the first three Greek letters were Alpha, Beta, and Delta.

 

[Quick_Nick]

A long time ago, I thought that the first three Greek letters were Alpha, Beta, and Delta.

...Do you mean last week?

 

[Pipcard]

...Do you mean last week?

No, several years ago.

 

[Quick_Nick]

No, several years ago.

Hehe, I only know as far as gamma, and only recently! (mostly because of calculus, functions of three dimensions)

 

[Urwumpe]

I just noticed that the Greek alphabet has much more letters than I remembered...

alpha beta gamma delta epsilon eta zeta theta...

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Are those runes, or unicode?

 

[Urwumpe]

Are those runes, or unicode?

Its runicode.

 

[N_Molson]

Ancient Greek alphabet (-500 BC)

 

[Spacethingy]

Ancient Greek alphabet (-500 BC)

"BAY-TA" - Really?! I always thought it was "BEE-TA", and that those YouTube commentators were just being facetious.

 

[orb]

"BAY-TA" - Really?!

Meh. They sound differently in different languages, anyway. :lol:

 

[Quick_Nick]

"BAY-TA" - Really?! I always thought it was "BEE-TA", and that those YouTube commentators were just being facetious.

The English commentators tend to go with BEE-TA. Americans go exclusively BAY-TA.

 

[Pipcard]

Also, I heard "OH-meh-guh" instead of "oh-MAY-guh" in a Doctor Who episode.

 

[Quick_Nick]

MEE-THANE...

 

[n122vu]

Phi Theta Kappa. Beta Zeta Rho.

 

[Linguofreak]

Ancient Greek alphabet (-500 BC)

That doesn't match up with the pronunciation of Greek letter names in any English dialect I'm familiar with, British or American.

"O-mah-cron" for "Omicron" would match some south(east)ern US dialects, but then "Chi" should be "Kah", not "kigh".

And "Ay-tay" for "Eta"? Seriously?

And I'm not aware of any English dialect that generally pronounces word final "a", of any origin, as "ah". It pretty much always gets reduced to a schwa. Ironically, "schwa" is the one content word (as opposed to interjections and onomatopoeia) that I can think of that violates that rule.

 

[Quick_Nick]

That doesn't match up with the pronunciation of Greek letter names in any English dialect I'm familiar with, British or American.

"O-mah-cron" for "Omicron" would match some south(east)ern US dialects, but then "Chi" should be "Kah", not "kigh".

And "Ay-tay" for "Eta"? Seriously?

And I'm not aware of any English dialect that generally pronounces word final "a", of any origin, as "ah". It pretty much always gets reduced to a schwa. Ironically, "schwa" is the one content word (as opposed to interjections and onomatopoeia) that I can think of that violates that rule.

I don't know what's wrong with "kigh", but that definitely should be "ay-tah".

 

[Linguofreak]

I don't know what's wrong with "kigh", but that definitely should be "ay-tah".

Nothing's wrong with "kigh" if you pronounce omicron as "o-my-cron".

If you pronounce omicron as "o-mah-cron", then chi should sound similarly southern: "kah".

Eta should be "ay-tuh". "Ay-tah" (and likewise "al-fah", "bay-tah", etc.) would be in keeping with the original Greek pronunciation, but I've never heard it pronounced that way in English.

 

[mojoey]

MEE-THANE...

Al-ooo-mini-um...

*eye twitch*

 

[Loru]

I just noticed that the Greek alphabet has much more letters than I remembered...

alpha beta gamma delta epsilon eta zeta theta...

You haven't played X-Wing, Tie Fighter, XvT or X-Wing Alliance enough then.

Almost every imperial fighter squadron was designated with greek alphabeth.