[uClibc] about the name of your project

[George Andreou]

OK, I know see what is the confusion.

It is like Pi (=3.1415...)
Everybody except Greeks pronounce Pi as 'p-eye' which is very difficult 
for me to accept.
Greeks say Pi as in "pipi" or "Pit". There is no 'i' (eye) in Pi. So it 
seams that the same goes for more letters of the greek alphabet.
The question is, when you are saying the letters of a foreign alphabet 
do you pronounce them, the way you feel confortable, or the way the 
native people pronounce the letters?
A good example is the letter "R" which is pronounced as 'are' in English 
but as 'ere' in French.
Now go in a french class at the school of your neighbour and say R like 
'are'.
The teacher will probably throw you out...

This is my point. Of course nobody can blame you (not you personaly, I 
mean in general)
for the use of 'mu' since you dont know greek. The blame goes to ancient 
greek governments
who  did their best to ruin our language (as it shows in the URLs you 
point me to).
They did pay attention to "details". They were easy going in many issues 
in order to please
our friends in Europe and beyond.
You see, we used to have accents (since the ancient era), like the 
french do,
but one beautiful morning they were abandoned by a law voted in the 
greek parliament by a very small fraction of the total members of our 
parliament (about 40 members have voted out of 300, about 35 said "yes").

Anyway, the greek language is a very sad story, but from the evidence 
you have provided it is very clear you have no other option than to say 
µ as 'mu', but please if you have to say it in a conversation do the 
mistake to pronounce it like 'mee' [1] ( written MH in greek capital 
letters) and not 'm-ou' (mu).

[1] not 'mi' since from the example with pi you might read it 'm-eye'.

Thank you all, bye bye

George Andreou

Erik Andersen wrote:

>On Thu Jun 03, 2004 at 02:33:23PM +0300, George Andreou wrote:
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>>I am sorry to inform you for your error here.
>>You see, there is no letter "mu" in the greek language.
>>µ is called "mi" in greek. "Mu" maybe it is the sound of a cow, but 
>>definitely not the greek letter µ.
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>The FOLDOC entry for "micro-" also mentions
>"Abbreviation: Greek mu"
>    http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?micro-
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>There are another 10,000 or so hits found by google.
>    http://www.google.com/search?&q=SI+prefix+mu
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>Now I may not be correct in the slightest (its all greek to me
>after all), but at least a sizable number of people and standards
>organizations such as NIST are wrong with me,
>
> -Erik
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