• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    For reference, the German pronunciation, same sound as in hew or human. Knuth says “TeX” is Tau, Epsilon, Chi, and says the Chi is supposed to be the voiceless velar fricative, as in Loch Ness. According to modern Greek phonetics, it can be either, ask an actual Greek how hard the fricative is supposed to be.

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      3 months ago

      Looks like we’ve got another argument on our hands! That’s not how we pronounced it at our uni and I don’t care what

      Knuth says

      /s