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blue_bear_94


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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:37:02 pm    Post subject: Proposal to rename Cemetech to Chemetech
Why? Because people are mispronouncing it. While the name is supposed to be pronounced with a "k," I believe some people may be pronouncing it with an "s." I'd like to see your thoughts.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:38:27 pm    Post subject:
eeeeeeeewwww. I want me keys back, thank you very much.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:39:49 pm    Post subject:
And on the third post, Merth rained down with had NyQuil-fueled administrative decree:
Nope.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:40:33 pm    Post subject:
Then people would pronounce it with the ch- like cheese has....

If you want to change the name for phonetic spelling, why not just make it kemetek?
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:41:11 pm    Post subject: Re: Proposal to rename "Cemetech" as "Chemete
blue_bear_94 wrote:
Why? Because people are mispronouncing it. While the name is supposed to be pronounced with a "k," I believe some people may be pronouncing it with an "s." I'd like to see your thoughts.
It's been spelled Cemetech for the past 13 going on 14 years; I don't plan on changing it now. Smile I do appreciate your frustration with people pronouncing it incorrectly, though.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:41:15 pm    Post subject:
From experience, ce in English is always pronounced se, but there could be some story behind Cemetech being pronounced Kemetek. Besides, changing it to Chemetech would make some people pronounce it Shemetek, anyway. I myself was surprised when I discovered it was pronounced like K, but I have gotten used to it over the time and almost no longer say semetek when I talk with juju2143 IRL.

I vote that we let it as it is.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:41:54 pm    Post subject:
willrandship wrote:
Then people would pronounce it with the ch- like cheese has....

If you want to change the name for phonetic spelling, why not just make it kemetek?


Because it wouldn't conform to the IPA.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:42:41 pm    Post subject:
All in favor of changing my name to Wheregoose? After all, that's the most common mistake coming from newbies who haven't typed it before.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:44:35 pm    Post subject:
Weregoose wrote:
All in favor of changing my name to Wheregoose? After all, that's the most common mistake coming from newbies who haven't typed it before.
What do they call you? Whirr-goose?

Also, the backstory on the name: Cemetech was initially me (CM) plus my friend Ethan (EE) plus Tech. I am Christopher, of course, not Sristopher. Since then, I've retconned the EE to be for Electrical Engineering, my field by interest and training.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:45:24 pm    Post subject:
@seana11 but I'm a nonconformant, capitalist american pig. Since when does my default stereotype follow international guidelines?

@Kerm that makes perfect sense. I was among the semetechians at one point myself Razz
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:52:35 pm    Post subject:
I have always thought it was kemetech. I must be a wierdo. but I vote no on changing it. That is like renaming the United States of America . because some people call it the
United States of Amrrr ica.
( I know a few people)
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:52:38 pm    Post subject:
cemetech.net wrote:
Welcome to Cemetech! Since 1999, Cemetech (pronounced KE'me'tek)


Smiling Cat Good Idea
You cannot mispronounce it if the 8th word on the homepage is a pronunciation
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:53:05 pm    Post subject:
Thanks Kerm, now that explain where the K sound comes from Smile.

Not to be too offtopic, but still on the subject of names, I miss the days where MC stood for MaxCoderz, not Minecrack.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:57:07 pm    Post subject:
I just pronounce it as "Kermismylordandmaster"
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blue_bear_94


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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:58:37 pm    Post subject:
AHelper wrote:
cemetech.net wrote:
Welcome to Cemetech! Since 1999, Cemetech (pronounced KE'me'tek)


Smiling Cat Good Idea
You cannot mispronounce it if the 8th word on the homepage is a pronunciation

What if you never landed on the homepage before, or never bothered reading the 8th word? Or, what if your friend mentioned in online and you start pronouncing Cemetech with an "S"?
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 09:59:17 pm    Post subject:
Cement-tech? I like that too.
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 10:11:13 pm    Post subject:
blue_bear_94 wrote:
AHelper wrote:
cemetech.net wrote:
Welcome to Cemetech! Since 1999, Cemetech (pronounced KE'me'tek)


Smiling Cat Good Idea
You cannot mispronounce it if the 8th word on the homepage is a pronunciation

What if you never landed on the homepage before, or never bothered reading the 8th word? Or, what if your friend mentioned in online and you start pronouncing Cemetech with an "S"?
Oh no! What a disaster! You pronounced a word wrong and then had to learn the right way to say it! The worlds will surely end. I can hear God's trumpets sounding now. The archangel calls!
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Posted: 24 Apr 2012 11:14:30 pm    Post subject:
I'm pretty sure I was a Semetecher until the first time I talked to Kerm on Skype. Which was after I was an admin...


That said, there's no way I would want to see it named anything else.
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Posted: 25 Apr 2012 12:18:52 am    Post subject:
elfprince13 wrote:
I'm pretty sure I was a Semetecher until the first time I talked to Kerm on Skype. Which was after I was an admin...
How very disappointing, but I'm under no allusions that many of our users don't in fact pronounce it wrong. That's why I added that pronunciation guide to the front page a few years ago, so you can be excused.

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That said, there's no way I would want to see it named anything else.
Indeed, that seems more or less unanimous in this topic to me.
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Posted: 25 Apr 2012 02:44:32 am    Post subject:
FWIW, I still pronounce it like "Cement-tech" partly to get on Kerm's nerves, and because that's what I called it originally Razz
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