5 Apr
2013
5 Apr
'13
8:35 a.m.
Mouse wrote:
absent specific conscious attention (as now). The
first time I had
occasion to pronounce the card game name "euchre", I picked the wrong
paradigm for the initial vowels and pronounced it "oyker" (my template
was (Leonhard) Euler's name - why that rather than "eunuch" or
"euphoria" or "eucalyptus" or "euphemism", I don't
know).
German vs. Greek.
Peace... Sridhar