Comments on: Open Letter to Steve Jobs

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:32:33 +0000

Indeed I did learn Ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation.

By: Seamus Ryan

Seamus Ryan — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:37:12 +0000

@ Mark

You must have learned church latin. Classical Latin uses a hard k sound for c. Not the wimpy ch- sound that prevails in Italian and church latin. The Romans wouldn’t pronounce c as s as that’s what they had s for.

By: Mathias

Mathias — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:42:40 +0000

Haha, this was funny.
Steve Jobs, please adjust your pronunciation to the “et SETera” that is suggested above.
Wouldn’t like to lose that perfect image I have of you in my head, haha.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:28:35 +0000

I don’t know of any Romance languages that pronounce “et” as “eck” … maybe they do. But in any case, the Latin pronunciation is “et SETera” or “et CHETera,” depending on colloquial or classical pronunciations, and the English pronunciation is the colloquial “et SETera.”

By: kim

kim — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:03:49 +0000

Well, the expression is latin. Most latin based languages such as French do pronounce it like Jobs does.

This said, if the Americans commonly pronounce it otherwise, then Steve and etc. should follow.

By: Don

Don — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:24:14 +0000

I thought I was the only one who noticed the pronunciation. I thought maybe it was just the quality of the sound. Oh well. I guess I heard right after all. Too funny!

By: Chris Scott

Chris Scott — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:18:00 +0000

Amen on the Finder improvements! I’d be happy to wait to pay them more money for an upgrade to most features I don’t need if they’d put in the *one* feature I really need.