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how to pronounce "solaris"?

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Zhang Weiwu (family name first)

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Dec 14, 2002, 10:04:46 PM12/14/02
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It may looks simple, but I am not an English speaker. I want to make it
sure.

Ernest T. Bass

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Dec 13, 2002, 11:13:50 PM12/13/02
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Well, i think you'll get about 10 different answers to this question.

I personally pronounce it like this : SOUL AIR ISS
Others pronounce it SOL ARE ISS

Hope that helps

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CJT

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Dec 13, 2002, 10:16:12 PM12/13/02
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Zhang Weiwu (family name first) wrote:
> It may looks simple, but I am not an English speaker. I want to make it
> sure.
>

I've heard it two ways, each sounding like three smaller
English words in series:

sole are is
sole air is

I think McNealy uses the second choice.

The final "s" might be a bit harder (more hiss) than in the
word "is" -- more like "iss."

Tony Curtis

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Dec 13, 2002, 10:32:08 PM12/13/02
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Soh - lar - riss (British English)
Soh - lair - riss (in some parts of US)

zai jian!
tony

Zhang Weiwu (family name first)

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Dec 14, 2002, 10:42:34 PM12/14/02
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"Tony Curtis" <tony_c...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Soh - lar - riss (British English)
> Soh - lair - riss (in some parts of US)

Which one is stressed? Is it SOH-lair-riss?

> zai jian!

Xiahui jian, you kong chang lai:)

Tony Curtis

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Dec 13, 2002, 11:39:59 PM12/13/02
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>> On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:42:34 +0800,

>> "Zhang Weiwu \(family name first\)" <weiwu...@hotmail.com> said:

> "Tony Curtis" <tony_c...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:87y96t2...@limey.hpcc.uh.edu...
>> Soh - lar - riss (British English) Soh - lair - riss
>> (in some parts of US)

> Which one is stressed? Is it SOH-lair-riss?

2nd syllable, e.g.

soh - LAR - riss (I'm English)

>> zai jian!
> Xiahui jian, you kong chang lai:)

No, I don't really speak Mandarin :-) I just know a few words...

James Myers

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Dec 14, 2002, 9:25:52 AM12/14/02
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On a lighter note.
After trying Solaris 7 Intel on an old P166 I started pronouncing it
like this:

SLOW-AIR-ISS

James

Stefaan A Eeckels

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Dec 14, 2002, 4:28:34 PM12/14/02
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(Top-posting fixed)

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:25:52 GMT
James Myers <myer...@yahoo.NO-SPAM.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:04:46 +0800, "Zhang Weiwu \(family name
> first\)" <weiwu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >It may looks simple, but I am not an English speaker. I want to make it
> >sure.
> >

> On a lighter note.
> After trying Solaris 7 Intel on an old P166 I started pronouncing it
> like this:
>
> SLOW-AIR-ISS

Actually, I'm running Solaris 2.6 on a venerable Pentium 200
with 64MB, and it's running quite fast - it's is a lot faster
on that box than Windows NT 3.51 ever was, and not noticeably
slower than Linux.

--
Stefaan
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Dave Uhring

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Dec 14, 2002, 6:50:21 PM12/14/02
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On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:25:52 +0000, James Myers wrote:

> On a lighter note.
> After trying Solaris 7 Intel on an old P166 I started pronouncing it
> like this:
>
> SLOW-AIR-ISS

Perhaps you should learn how to turn on DMA on your hard drives.

Erik Max Francis

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Dec 14, 2002, 7:51:42 PM12/14/02
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James Myers wrote:

> After trying Solaris 7 Intel on an old P166 I started pronouncing it
> like this:
>
> SLOW-AIR-ISS

Wow, that's original. Do you say MICROSLOTH, NUTSCRAPE, and A-O-HELL,
too?

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Tony Walton

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Dec 17, 2002, 5:10:46 AM12/17/02
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"Zhang Weiwu (family name first)" wrote:
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> It may looks simple, but I am not an English speaker. I want to make it
> sure.


Ask Stanislaw Lem :-)


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Tony

John D Groenveld

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Dec 17, 2002, 10:42:54 AM12/17/02
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In article <pan.2002.12.14....@yahoo.com>,

Dave Uhring <daveu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Perhaps you should learn how to turn on DMA on your hard drives.

DMA only works in Solaris 8 and newer.

If you're stuck on v7 or earlier, then you should be running
SCSI drives if you want any sort of decent disk performance.

John
groe...@acm.org

Anthony Mandic

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Dec 18, 2002, 7:20:06 AM12/18/02
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He doesn't know either!

-am © 2002

Tony Walton

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Dec 18, 2002, 7:49:02 AM12/18/02
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It's got to be on http://cyberiad.info/english/ somewhere...

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Tony

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