Okay, I give -- what's TK4?


On Oct 7, 2004, at 12:59 PM, tim Rowledge wrote:

>> Nice work Tim!
>
> Thanks; John & I have worked hard on this for a while now and we must 
> remember
> to thank the TK4/Mellon Foundation project for supporting us while we 
> do it.
> There's still some way to go to make it fully useful but it is working 
> quite
> nicely for Tweak. We'll need support for the windows and *nix VM work 
> and most
> particularly for making it be of any use for Morphic.
>
> There isn't any publically available code just yet though we're very 
> close. I
> suspect the architecture may need some revision once we actually try
> implementing on windows & *nix.
>
>> But how the hell do you pronounce it???
>
> I'm not a fluent Welsh speaker these days but I believe it is 
> something like
> ah-ree-ifa fen-es-tree
> Note that the word for windows is closely derived from the old french 
> word as
> spoken by the last successful invaders of Britain.
>
> I tried to find a web resource that might make a wav or mp3 file of the
> pronunciation for me but the only one I found requires a meaty unix 
> machine
> (google for welsh text speech) and I don't have one. Of course if 
> anyone on the
> list actually does speak Welsh well it would be nice to have a sound 
> sample for
> the swiki. And if I chose the wrong possible translations, please 
> don't tell me.
>
> tim
>
> -- 
> (from telus webmail - make sure to reply to the sumeru address or I 
> likely won't
> see it)
>
>
>
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