Pronunciations :P

[2bzy4ne1]

yeah most people miss the fact its daedalus

I think that daedalus is the most mispelled emu. :hehe:

 

[sytaylor]

He may work for them and they may call themselves that but the rest of the world uses a short i sound.

i don't.... i use the EN VI DIA, version

 

[DuDe]

Well, I'm not sure what daedalus means

Daedalus is the name of a greek mythlogical character, the father of Icarus.

 

[KingTom]

dammit you got to it first.
he was the architect of the labyrinth to contain the minotaur, half-man, half-bull sired by the qween of King Minos(what an episode of Jerry Springer that would be) the got exiled to an island in the sea with his son Icarus when his labyrinth didn't work so well(an "improper" suiter for King Minos' daughter[one she actually liked] went in there and killed the Minotaur[instead of getting eaten like the rest of them])
it keeps going but the more important part(at least to me) is:
Daedalus made wax wings fo him and his son Icarus. Icarus was flyin' around too close to the sun, his wings melted, and taught the ground a lesson.(no more Icarus)

 

[skull1]

shit, just ask strmnrm.

 

[Stezo2k]

 

[sytaylor]

that could well be the crappiest vb prog ever

 

[hotshitu]

In classical Latin "ae" is pronounced like "e" in Engl. "end" cf. Lat. Caesar, Ital. Cesare, Germ. Cäsar, etc. British English proves to be the exception.
And please people, for sound phonetic (ha!) transcriptions use the IPA system instead of proprietary crap a la American Heritage/Merriam-Webster et al.
and for the Greek/Roman mythology impaired: Ovid's Metamorphoses are a good starting point (I'm sure some abridged version can be found on the net