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Re: Club Name discussion
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Tue, 16 Feb 1999 15:29:19 GMT
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:04:02 GMT, ba-lego@cinnamon.com (Todd Lehman)
wrote:

PNLTC is unpronounceable no matter how you look at it, so that's OK; no one
is going to bastardize (mispronounce) the name.  But when you have a name
with a vowel surrounded by consonants, someone will always try to make it
into a word and say it aloud.  If they're lucky, they get it right.  :)

Mxptlk (sp?)



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  Re: Club Name discussion
 
(...) Lbhe EBG13 zbqhyrf vf oebxra. Zvar vfa'g. UGU. UNAQ. Wnfcre "Jub arrqf n zbqhyr, naljnl, jura lbh unir n oenva?" Wnaffra (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
  Re: Club Name discussion
 
(...) Hey, was he the little alien arch-enemy of Superman on the old Super Friends cartoon show who would disappear back to his home planet if you tricked him into saying his own name? --Todd (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) One thing maybe worth considering is how the name is likely to be pronounced... BayLUG or BAYLUG would most certainly be pronounced BAY-lug by anyone who sees it. They probably wouldn't know what it stood for, but they wouldn't mispronounce (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)

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