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EEVblog => Other Blogs => Topic started by: Bud on June 03, 2019, 05:25:01 am
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I did not know if to laugh or cry when heard countless times Louis Rossmann saying "capacItor" in his videos. Unless he was joking. Anyone else calls capAcitors "capacItors" ?
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It must be that East coast, NYC accent.
Leave my condensa out of this.
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Sorry, can you run that by me again?
I read "capacitors" & it comes out as, well, "capacitors", with both "As" pronounced as in "cat".
The "I" sounds like the "I" in "sit", or "mitt".
It is all very "low key" with no undue emphasis on either of the letters in question.
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I think it's a British thing... go listen to Edd China say "carburetor" in old episodes of "Wheeler Dealers" on YouTube.
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Sorry, can you run that by me again?
I read "capacitors" & it comes out as, well, "capacitors", with both "As" pronounced as in "cat".
The "I" sounds like the "I" in "sit", or "mitt".
It is all very "low key" with no undue emphasis on either of the letters in question.
I mean he puts emphasis on "i" , like capa-'citor rather than ca-'pacitor
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great that 's very good to me
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I pronounce it exaggeratedly like that when i was to say capacitor in a silly way.
Still better than Ben Hecks pronunciation of multimeter with the emphasis on I
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I did this as a young teenager just learning about electronics I pronounced it as Ca- Pak-a-Tor It kind of like when Outback Dave ;) mentioned
that he pronounced "Diode" as Dio-Dee as a young kid , which I got a kick out of
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I remember back when I did "Elementary Electrical Theory" at Perth Tech School, the Lecturer had a "hate on" for the way people tended to write "resistor" & "capacitor" as "resister" & "capaciter respectively.
He spent several classes exphasising the correct spelling, saying "resist-OR" & "capacit-OR", until it had sunk into our thick skulls, then reverted to pronouncing them as "resistuh" & "capacituh", like most
other Australians.(the sound "uh!" is an important component of Australian English! ;D)
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like most other Australians.(the sound "uh!" is an important component of Australian English! ;D)
This would explain a lot on how Dave pronounces words , I also noticed that with Sagan It's like a offshoot of the English ( England) dialect
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I watched too many of Daves videos, so i don't even notice any of the Aussie pronunciation because i have gotten so used to it..
I had a teacher that i thought talked funny when i met him, but then after a while i stopped noticing it. And still to this day i have no idea if i got used to his weird voice or if he just had a bad cold and full nose when i met him and doesn't anymore.
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I know a guy from Turkey who would pronounce it that way. Pretty normal, actually.
From where I work, we have probably people from 20 different states from the world, so any pronunciation is expected.
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Think I would need to hear these two spoken.
I have just been saying it in my head and seem to give the A and I equal emphasis.