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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
>
> Juri wrote:
>
> "Now, in Finnish "sci-fi" is actually pronounced
"skiffy", which
version
> I've seen some English-speaking people
use."
>
> Skiffy? That's just spiffy!
>
> Similarly, I found it very odd when I first heard
the UK pronunciation
> of UFOs as U Foes (in a Graham Parker song). Here,
we spell out the
> initials.
Damon Knight in his critial writing collected in IN SEARCH OF
WONDER
(who wrote very little CF per se, but his borderline
sf/fantasy "You're Another" is also pretty bleakly memorable
CF as well, once it sinks in...as is the prefatory story to
the novel A FOR ANYTHING, though the rest of that novel
itself disappoints me, as a sort of Heinleinian PRISONER OF
ZENDA-style sf adventure) encouraged people who Must use
Ackerman's term "sci-fi" to at least pronounce it "skiffy,"
hence the ironic use of "skiffy" by many Anglophone pros and
fans. I used it here in the last week, which might've got
Juri to thinking along these lines.
Todd Mason, who enjoys the fact that people use UFO as
synonymous with Alien Visitation, rather than as anything
that one can't identify that seems to be flying. I don't
remember "U-foes" (sounds hostile) fromt he old UK tv series
UFO, but my memory of that series is pretty hazy, for which
I'm probably grateful.
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