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I hereby suggest that we pronounce these things as memri-stors rather than mem-ristors.
by Nwallins 16y ago
I hereby suggest that we pronounce these things as memri-stors rather than mem-ristors.
- proee 16y agoIt may sound better, but you're slaughtering the root of the word, which is Resistor. Memristors are useful as a storage element but that's only one possible utility, not the fundamental of the device itself.
- Nwallins 16y agoAbsolutely. The comment was very much tongue-in-cheek. :)
- cryptnoob 16y agoSlaughtered or not, it's an awkward word to say "properly", and awkward words get changed. I find Kilometer much easier to say the American way "kill-ah-meter", rather than the correct way of "kill-Oh-meter". I suspect people will pronounce these things in a way that isn't painful to the tongue, and memri-stor is that way.