Hi guys,

Good work on another fine show, a massive one.

Something amusing I noticed that kept coming up in this show was how to pronounce certain names. In most cases I threw my hands up and cried, ‘How could you pronounce it like that?!’

First, ProDOS. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone pronounce the word DOS as ‘dose’. Using that as my base, I don’t think pronouncing ProDOS as ‘pro-dose’ has any legs.

Second, I think ‘Hadean lands’ comes from Hades, so it can’t be ‘Had-ee-ann’. It has to sound like ‘Hades’, turned into an adjective.

Then there’s that old chestnut Karateka. How would you pronounce Karate? Now say that the same way that with ‘ka’ on the end. Unless the author created an arbitrary pronunciation of ‘Carrot-eek-ah’, I don’t think there’s any case for that… and that guy who (mis?) pronounced it that way on a TV commercial once has no case :)

To the subject of Name the Game. I’ll miss it, but your reasoning for putting it on hiatus sounded reasonable. It just depends on whether you find there is some Apple-centric podcast-based game you can come up with in place of it which actually does attract significantly more entries.

Cheers,

– Wade

Thanks for listening, Wade!

These sorts of mispronunciations are what happen when you take an online interest offline. :-) In the case of "ProDOS" and "Karateka", you’ve likely heard a couple of different ways to say it on the show, with the right one being one of them. I suppose we’re just covering our bases by throwing out the others. :-)

As for "Hadean Lands", you’re likely correct, but I’ll see if we can get The Man himself to weigh in on this one.

On "Name the Game", we think part of the problem is getting people to turn the offline activity of listening to the show into the online activity of entering the contest. There seems to be a disconnect there, one that would likely affect any other contest we introduce. For example, all three hosts of another retrocomputing podcast recently raved about how much fun this contest is — yet not one of them had ever actually entered. Why is that?

We’ll be soliciting more ideas on these and other topics soon!

–Ken

The Man doth say: “HAY-de-an.” (It’s in the MacOS dictionary, even.) You can put the emphasis on the second syllable if you like — I don’t know which way is more authentically Greek, but it’s an English word too.

Thanks for rolling past me on your show. :)

Congratulations for your hard and interesting work, Gentlemen.

And for Todd, a special link to the AIF version of Bob Bishop’s Bomber (all my other digitized cassettes are WAV files) @ http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/projects/cassettes/softape/k7_softape_bomber.aif

Antoine