| Thanks, Dan :)Wolfspirit, on host 216.13.40.196 Thursday, August 19, 1999, at 10:15:25
 Re: I Thunk I Yam posted by Dan on Thursday, August 19, 1999, at 05:22:46:
 > > > > > Well, they've already come up with the more obvious ones.  There's also "I Think I Think", "I Thunked", "Imponderables", and my all-time favorite mouthful of a more literary sort: "Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum".> > > > >
 > > > >
 > > > > And what, praytell, does that mean?
 > > >
 > > > "I think I think, therefore I think I am."
 > >
 > > Yes, exactly.  Pray tell, does anyone know how to *pronounce* the Latin phrase correctly?
 > >
 > > Wolfspirit
 >
 > Sure. Just remember that all the Os are long. And all the Gs are glottal stops (as in the word "go"). The Is are pronounced as long Es.
 > The "er" in "ergo" is pronounced as in the first syllable of "error".
 >
 > COE-gee-toe COE-gee-toe, EHR-goe COE-gee-toe SOOM
 
 Thank you!  I was thinking those "gees" were "jees" so it's a pleasure to know how to say it properly.  Gracias.
 
 Wolfspirit
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