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In <rdippold.711661229@cancun>, rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com sez:
>sean@sdg.dra.com writes:
>>The business section of the Sunday (July 19) New York Times had an article
>>on BBS's.  Overall a pretty standard intro to BBS article.  But one thing
>>caught my attention, the pronunciation of the word "sysop."   I've always
>>heard "sysops" pronounced as "sis-ops", not "sigh-sops" as written in the
>>article.  Is this a New York accent?, or have I been saying it wrong for
>>the last twelve years?
>
>Oh Lord.  Just remember the reason newspapers rarely write about
>computers, science, or third parties.   They're completely ignorant of
>them.  Their science person is often a journalism or philosophy or
>english major who actually took a course in biology.

As much as I hate to agree with Ron Dippold on anything, his
speculation is dead-bang right on this one.  I went to college with
Judith Berck, the author of the piece in the Times, and can vouch for
her unfamiliarity with anything vaguely resembling hard science.  (For
the record, she has a new book out on the daily lives of homeless
children; title is something like _In Their Own Voices_.)

In case anyone cares, David Sanger -- the idiot who keeps writing
pieces in the Times about computers that have "512,000" bytes of RAM
-- is also a classmate.  I have no idea what he majored in.

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