🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Thread View: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
2 messages
2 total messages Started by Patrick van der Smagt Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:04
ANNOUNCEMENT: correct pronunciation of `NeXT'
#1298
Author: Patrick van der Smagt
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:04
18 lines
1572 bytes
Previously, the name of Steve Jobs' computer had been erroneously pronounced very much like  
the word `next', much confusion arising from that.  Obviously, this was a mistake.  I will  
gladly remind all listeners of the following:

"Insiders pronouce the X of NeXT as a Greek chi, not as an `x', so that NeXT rhymes with the  
word blecchhht.  It's the `ch' sound in Scottish words like {\sl loch\/} or German words like  
{\sl ach\/}; it's a Spanish `j' and a Russian `kh'; it's a Dutch `g' or `ch'.  When you say  
it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist.

"On the other hand, it's important to notice another thing about NeXT's name: the `e' is out  
of the kilter.  This displaced `e' is a reminder that NeXT is about displaying TeXT, and it  
distinguishes NeXT from other system names.   In fact, `next' (pronounced {\sl next\/}) is  
the admirable pre-12th century English word meaning `immediately preceding or following (as  
in place, rank, or time)' or `any other considered hypothetically <new it as well as the next  
man>'."

Let us mend our ways.
								Super Patrick
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: correct pronunciation of `NeXT'
#1331
Author: G.T. Falk
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:36
8 lines
877 bytes
In article <BxKIFC.G1A@news.cso.uiuc.edu> patrick@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu
	(Patrick van der Smagt) writes:
>"Insiders pronouce the X of NeXT as a Greek chi, not as an `x', so that NeXT
>rhymes with the word blecchhht. ...

Don Knuth would be proud. :-)

g.
Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads