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Subject:    Re: [MPlayer-users] Why I can't config Audio drivers (alsa1x &
From:       Rocky Zhang <rocky () userful ! com>
Date:       2004-06-17 14:51:58
Message-ID: 1087483918.5503.3.camel () norma ! userful ! ca
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Hi, everyone,

I'm sorry I cause a debate about CPU brand name. It doesn't matter to
me. If I was wrong, I'll correct next time. But few people answer my
real question. I'm a little disappointed.

Thanks.

Rocky

On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 05:18, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:10:08AM -0700, rcooley wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 00:59:18 -0400
> > The Wanderer <inverseparadox@comcast.net> wrote:
> > 
> > As a matter of fact, there are several different companies going by the
> > name Athalon, so a quick search turns up many more.
> > http://www.athalonskyvalet.com/Athalon_Home/athalon_home.html
> > 
> > > ...Bweh? How is it in conflict? To the extent to which English *has*
> > > any"typical rules", it seems perfectly well in line to me.
> > 
> > Well, for one thing, Athlon looks and sounds similar enough to other
> > words like Marathon, Halon, et al., that a natural connection is made,
> > and people quickly forget the slight difference.
> 
> WTF does Halon have to do with Athlon? No native speaker would
> associate these words at all...
> 
> > The rules aren't set in stone, but they do apply to a good 99.9% of
> > words, at least.  For instance, either the first or second letter in any
> > word is almost always a noun.  
> 
> Huh? A noun is not a type of letter...
> 
> > One of the rules violated here is that there are usually about 1 vowels
> > to 2 consonants, and cases where there are _more than_ 2 consonants
> > together ("thl" in Athlon) are rather uncommon.
> 
> Hardly. Aside from spelling it's only two consonants ("th" and "l")
> and in fact "triple" consonants are very common in english when one of
> them is written as two letters. Obvious examples are "school" and
> "catch".
> 
> > So it's natural to want
> > to insert another vowel in the word.
> 
> Not natural for a native speaker.
> 
> Rich
> 
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