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Subject: Re: How do you pronounce 'MOTM'?

From: "crmatt99" <crmatt99@...>
Date: 2005-06-15

I always try to pronounce it emulating a vocoder with a touch of ring mod.



--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@s...> wrote:
> MOW-tim
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> Paul S>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Brewster" <pugix@e...>
> To: "MOTM List" <motm@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:57 AM
> Subject: [motm] How do you pronounce 'MOTM'?
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> > Is it
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> > EM OH TEE EM
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> > or
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> > MO' TEM
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> > ??
> >
> > I was talking with Paul Schreiber on the phone one time and he
> > pronounced it the first way, each letter by itself.
> >
> > And a related question. When you have a name in your head, do you have
> > in mind both a spelling and a sound? A friend of mine had a dog he
> > called "Dow". At least that is how it was spelled in my head when I
> > called the dog. "Here, Dow. Good dog!" Later I found out his name was
> > "Tao".
> >
> > So in this case we have an acronym for something, Modular Of The
> > Mothers, etc., I forget exactly :). But what is its sound? In your own
> > mind, when you see ∗MOTM∗, how does it ring?
> >
> > -Richard Brewster
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