<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I would think this right and not just because German is the language I probably speak second-best, after English*, but think of how "Freud" is pronounced even in English.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>Regards,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;
">Dan</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; ">* Which means my German is really awful. But then you should hear my attempts at French. :)</div><div></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br></span></b></font></div><div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> BillK <pharos@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 15, 2013 1:12 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ExI] Euler day<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:47 PM, spike wrote:<br>> Unrelated aside: I had intended to give my son the middle name Euler. At<br>> the hospital the day before his birth, I decided to try an experiment. I<br>> wrote the name on a piece of paper and asked four people at Stanford<br>> Pediatric how they would pronounce the name. All four said YOU-ler. So,<br>> no. Damn. {8-[<br><br>Wikepedia says the nearest English equivalent of the German<br>pronunciation is "Oiler"<br><br>So I doubt if you would prefer that. :)<br><br>BillK<br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>