22 Jul 2012, 9:01 am
for those who missed this one on the last page:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FyEWbwBarQ[/youtube]
this is the greek alphabet as pronounce by the greek.
see? no pie… but pee. 
22 Jul 2012, 9:08 am
22 Jul 2012, 9:11 am
22 Jul 2012, 9:13 am
lau wrote:
Odd. Your link, http://www.goldennumber.net/pronouncing-phi/, gives links on to Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com, both of which give solely the "fie" pronunciation - and neither even suggesting "fee" as an alternative (which the initial page suggests they both do.)
The dictionary.com page clearly gives http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/audi ... 356600.wav as the unique pronunciation. The Merriam-Webster also gives a whole load of "rhymes with" words.
The dictionary.com page clearly gives http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/audi ... 356600.wav as the unique pronunciation. The Merriam-Webster also gives a whole load of "rhymes with" words.
then maybe the greek don't know how to pronounce their own language?
Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com can't be wrong now… can they?
Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com assume that π (παι) and Φ (Φαι) pronounces as pai and fai.
the greek and the rest of the informed world know that that is wrong.
22 Jul 2012, 9:17 am
lau wrote:
PS. Modern Greek has no bearing on how the letters are pronounced. The intention is that they are supposed to be the ancient Greek alphabet, even though no one really can be certain that they were pronounced that way.
then why do some countries assume that π was pronounced pai and not pee just as it is today????? wouldn't that be more straightforward to assume??
it is a complete lack of logic pronouncing π as pai!
22 Jul 2012, 9:21 am
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvoNr0s5gec[/youtube]
another greek doing it wrong...
22 Jul 2012, 9:21 am
22 Jul 2012, 10:12 am
well sorry I messed that up. I'm not a mathematician 
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22 Jul 2012, 10:48 am
aspi-rant wrote:
for those who missed this one on the last page:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FyEWbwBarQ[/youtube]
this is the greek alphabet as pronounce by the greek.
see? no pie… but pee.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FyEWbwBarQ[/youtube]
this is the greek alphabet as pronounce by the greek.
see? no pie… but pee.
That's how it's pronounced in french. In french too, "pie" is "tarte", so the wordplay don't work anyway.
22 Jul 2012, 12:29 pm
22 Jul 2012, 1:25 pm
22 Jul 2012, 1:51 pm
mglosenger wrote:
Re: pronunciation of pi, I'm guessing it's because if you kept saying 'pee' in front of a bunch of schoolkids there would be too much giggling and it would generally be a waste of time. Also, pie tends to be delicious.
physicsnut42 wrote:
yeah, that makes absolutely perfect sense. Kinda what I was thinking
Except then in kindergarten when they learn the letter p there would probably be giggling too, so I don't see the problem as it's been around for ages already.
Except then in kindergarten when they learn the letter p there would probably be giggling too, so I don't see the problem as it's been around for ages already.
so one can say pee in english when referring to the letter P when learning the alphabet… but you can not say pee when referring to the letter ∏ when learning the greek alphabet ...
complete absence of logic.
22 Jul 2012, 5:43 pm
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