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Re: I Thunk I Yam
Posted By: Dan, on host 207.238.59.50
Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999, at 05:22:46
In Reply To: Re: I Thunk I Yam posted by Wolfspirit on Wednesday, August 18, 1999, at 18:02:04:

> > > > Well, they've already come up with the more obvious ones. There's also "I Think I Think", "I Thunked", "Imponderables", and my all-time favorite mouthful of a more literary sort: "Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum".
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> > > And what, praytell, does that mean?
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> > "I think I think, therefore I think I am."
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> Yes, exactly. Pray tell, does anyone know how to *pronounce* the Latin phrase correctly?
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> Wolfspirit

Sure. Just remember that all the Os are long. And all the Gs are glottal stops (as in the word "go"). The Is are pronounced as long Es.
The "er" in "ergo" is pronounced as in the first syllable of "error".

COE-gee-toe COE-gee-toe, EHR-goe COE-gee-toe SOOM

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