Non Sequitur question
j...@jolomo.net
in January and I like it a bunch. But how do you pronounce
Danae??
I love when she's in domestic diva mode: her eyes
are round and the nice skull with flower petals :)
Thanks!
--
Joe Morris
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Czaerana
>in January and I like it a bunch. But how do you pronounce
>Danae??
Would it be "Dah-nee"? In Greek myths wasn't Danae one of Zeus' many mortal
conquests (aka, rape victims)? Perseus' mother?
Cynthia
Jim Ellwanger
<czae...@aol.com> wrote:
> >I've only been reading this since the AJC picked it up
> >in January and I like it a bunch. But how do you pronounce
> >Danae??
>
> Would it be "Dah-nee"? In Greek myths wasn't Danae one of Zeus' many mortal
> conquests (aka, rape victims)? Perseus' mother?
I know someone named Janae, and she pronounces her first name
"Juh-nay," so I've always read Danae as "Duh-nay."
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Karl S
>I've only been reading this since the AJC picked it up
>in January and I like it a bunch. But how do you pronounce
>Danae??
>
According to two different dictionaries:
dan-a-ee
Antonio E. Gonzalez
>Date: 4/23/2004 10:55 PM Pacific Standard Time
>Message-id: <230420042255101384%trai...@mindspring.com>
>
>In article <20040424004202...@mb-m04.aol.com>, Czaerana
><czae...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> >I've only been reading this since the AJC picked it up
>> >in January and I like it a bunch. But how do you pronounce
>> >Danae??
>>
>> Would it be "Dah-nee"? In Greek myths wasn't Danae one of Zeus' many mortal
>> conquests (aka, rape victims)? Perseus' mother?
>
>I know someone named Janae, and she pronounces her first name
>"Juh-nay," so I've always read Danae as "Duh-nay."
>
Here I was thinking "Day-nay" . . .
- Vaughner
- "Well, thanks to the internet, I'm bored with sex."
- Philip J. Fry, "Futurama"
Antonio E. Gonzalez
>Date: 4/23/2004 9:42 PM Pacific Standard Time
>Message-id: <20040424004202...@mb-m04.aol.com>
>
>>I've only been reading this since the AJC picked it up
>>in January and I like it a bunch. But how do you pronounce
>>Danae??
>
>Would it be "Dah-nee"? In Greek myths wasn't Danae one of Zeus' many mortal
>conquests (aka, rape victims)? Perseus' mother?
>
IIRC, he sometimes disguised himself as the women's husbands, so (I don't
wanna know the explanation to his animal disguises working) . . .
Mike Peterson
"Antonio E. Gonzalez" <ante...@aol.complex> wrote in message
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> >From: czae...@aol.com (Czaerana)
> >Date: 4/23/2004 9:42 PM Pacific Standard Time
> >Message-id: <20040424004202...@mb-m04.aol.com>
> >
> >>I've only been reading this since the AJC picked it up
> >>in January and I like it a bunch. But how do you pronounce
> >>Danae??
> >
> >Would it be "Dah-nee"? In Greek myths wasn't Danae one of Zeus' many
mortal
> >conquests (aka, rape victims)? Perseus' mother?
> >
>
> IIRC, he sometimes disguised himself as the women's husbands, so (I
don't
> wanna know the explanation to his animal disguises working) . . .
>
kill him, so he locked Danae in an underground dungeon, whereupon Zeus
descended upon her in a shower of gold. The resulting child, Perseus, went
through his adventures with Medusa, etc., and was competing in the Olympic
games when a gust of wind blew his discus off course. It went into the crowd
and struck an old man who had been leaning forward to see.
To see if the prophet had been right. She had.
Mike Peterson
Glens Falls NY
Nick Theodorakis
wrote:
If Wiley should happen to drop in to say how he thinks she pronounces
it it, perhaps Mr. Jakson should add it to the FAQ.
Nick
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Sherwood Harrington
> If Wiley should happen to drop in to say how he thinks she pronounces
> it it, perhaps Mr. Jakson should add it to the FAQ.
According to Google, Wiley Miller hasn't posted here for more than a year
and a half. His last appearance was a vehement (and, IMO, unwarranted)
rant at Ted Nolan for expressing a mildly negative opinion of "Miss
Peach":
Methinks Wiley has had enough of us.
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Sherwood Harrington
Boulder Creek, California
Mike Peterson
"Sherwood Harrington" <sherw...@spamrahul.net> wrote in message
news:c6ehl3$rd$1...@blue.rahul.net...
> Nick Theodorakis <nick_the...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If Wiley should happen to drop in to say how he thinks she pronounces
> > it it, perhaps Mr. Jakson should add it to the FAQ.
>
> According to Google, Wiley Miller hasn't posted here for more than a year
> and a half. His last appearance was a vehement (and, IMO, unwarranted)
> rant at Ted Nolan for expressing a mildly negative opinion of "Miss
> Peach":
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yu68o
It's well known that Charles Schulz was a generous mentor to a lot of young
artists, I think it's also pretty well known that Lynn Johnston has been
very helpful to rookies in the business, but there are other artists who
have done a lot for the industry and the people in it, and Mel Lazarus is
one of those people.
In this case, I suspect the chortling over his imminent retirement may have
struck a nerve with someone for whom it was a little more personal than
that -- particularly given that it was a health-related development.
>
> Methinks Wiley has had enough of us.
>
That may well be. There is something in the FAQ about not scaring them off,
you know.
Most of us who have been here very long have had the experience of taking a
clever swipe and finding out that it hit, not some ink on a page, but a
human being. There are times to go ahead anyway and times to think twice.
In this case, snickering about someone's "retirement" was maybe ill-advised,
considering there was an explanation that wasn't particularly hard to
uncover and certainly didn't seem humorous.
Czaerana
>>conquests (aka, rape victims)? Perseus' mother?
>>
>
> IIRC, he sometimes disguised himself as the women's husbands, so (I don't
>wanna know the explanation to his animal disguises working) . . .
>
>
> - Vaughner
>
I think with Danae, the disguise was the "shower of gold" [insert dirty joke
here]. As for the animals, I'll repeat "rape." Not only were the poor girls
raped, they were hounded by Hera to boot!
Cynthia
j...@jolomo.net
> On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 06:12:47 -0800, Karl S <karlsch@-s-p-a-m-ak.net>
> wrote:
> >According to two different dictionaries:
> >
> >dan-a-ee
> If Wiley should happen to drop in to say how he thinks she pronounces
> it it, perhaps Mr. Jakson should add it to the FAQ.
Via posts and web-searches, here's all the possibilities so far :)
Dinneh
Duh-NAE
Duh-nay
Dah-nee
Dan like the boy's name, -ay as in hay, accent on the first syllable
Dan-a-ee
Dan-uh-ee
Dah-nah-eh, with short e-sounds, not with an ee sound
Dah-nah-eh. The 'eh'-sound is pronounced like the 'e' in 'bed'
Day-nay
Jim Lahue
> I've only been reading this since the AJC picked it up
> in January and I like it a bunch. But how do you pronounce
> Danae??
I would pronounce it Dan-ay, but that's probably not correct.
The name is from Greek mythology and is probably more like
Dah-nah-ee or Dan-ay-ee.
Jim Lahue
Clark
> >I've only been reading this since the AJC picked it up
> >in January and I like it a bunch. But how do you pronounce
> >Danae??
>
> Would it be "Dah-nee"? In Greek myths wasn't Danae one of Zeus' many
mortal
> conquests (aka, rape victims)? Perseus' mother?
In Greek myth the name is pronounced "Dan-ah-ee". It's often spelt "Danaė",
with a dieresis or umlaut mark over the "e" (I've spelt it in this sentence
with the mark over the "e", but I don't know if it'll show up that way on
all browsers or e-mail programs).
The dieresis mark shows that one syllable has been divided into two, so each
letter is pronounced separately. Here's a link to a WindowsMedia audio
pronunciation of the ancient form of the name:
http://education.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/pronounce_word?word=Danae&audio=d/0019900&property=dictionary&from=/reference/dictionary/entries/99/d0019900.html
Some of the confusion comes from the fact that "ae" is the modern way to
show the ancient ligature character "ę" (again, I don't know if that'll show
up correctly in all browsers). In this form, it's one syllable, and the
ancient pronunciation would be "ee".
Of course, in modern times, it's usually pronounced any way the person with
the name wants to pronounce it. So hard to say how Wiley intends it to be
pronounced.
- Clark
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