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Thanks, Dan :)
Posted By: Wolfspirit, on host 216.13.40.196
Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999, at 10:15:25
In Reply To: Re: I Thunk I Yam posted by Dan on Thursday, August 19, 1999, at 05:22:46:

> > > > > 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".
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > And what, praytell, does that mean?
> > >
> > > "I think I think, therefore I think I am."
> >
> > Yes, exactly. Pray tell, does anyone know how to *pronounce* the Latin phrase correctly?
> >
> > 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

Thank you! I was thinking those "gees" were "jees" so it's a pleasure to know how to say it properly. Gracias.

Wolfspirit