Euler

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32 Comments

wieson@feddit.org · 42 pts · 296d (6 replies)

With an English understanding of spelling, just say "Oiler"

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 296d (3 replies)

I'll always read it as this because of the famous mathematician

Leonhard Euler https://share.google/VTLMfQn73y4pEbOet

buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 296d (2 replies)

Isn't that why the name is used?

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d (1 reply)

What name?

Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 290d

Becky.

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 4 pts · 296d (1 reply)

Oil-uh

wieson@feddit.org · 1 pts · 296d

Ich habe überlegt, das so darzustellen, aber Euler war Schweizer. Da würde das R sehr viel deutlicher betont werden als im Hochdeutsch von Deutschland.

fulcrummed@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 296d

hopesdead@startrek.website · 18 pts · 297d (1 reply)

If one of you’ll says some silly ass name, this whole class is gonna feel my wrath.

edwardbear@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 296d

YOU DONE MESSED UP A-A-RON

solrize@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 297d (18 replies)

???

Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 297d (16 replies)

The joke is about how many variations on pronouncing the name "Euler" there are (Ew-leer, Oiler, Yoy-lir, etc), via a key and peel sketch about alternate pronunciations of common names.

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 296d (8 replies)

Yoy-lir

You made that one up.

Edit: Upon reflection, I think this might be what I would phonate as "Ee-oy-lir", like "Eeyore", which I would accept.

idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 296d

I once spoke to a philosophy professor who pronounced Nietzsche as though it rhymed with itchy. I didn’t correct him because I was 19 and felt intimidated, but at some point along his career, he wouldn’t have intimidated everyone, how does that even happen?

Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 296d (6 replies)

The american southern accent is a fucking insult to all languages everywhere.

baronvonj@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 296d (5 replies)

I ain't never heard nobody in Texas say it like that.

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 296d (2 replies)

I don't think a lot of people from Texas are referring to Euler by name, but I'd imagine they'd be predisposed to "Oiler"

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 296d (1 reply)

Even west virginnie and missisippah got engineers.

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 296d

Do they say "Yoy-lir"?

Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 296d (1 reply)

I believe they were from Louisiana, though this was a while ago.

baronvonj@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 296d

Ok that tracks.

hopesdead@startrek.website · 9 pts · 297d (5 replies)

Pretty much one of the best sketches they did.

finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 296d (4 replies)

It was so good he got hired to do a Paramount commercial about it and according to an interview people on the street would yell out "AY AY RON" when they see him.

edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 296d

I can't see the name Aaron written out and not think "ay ay ron"

hopesdead@startrek.website · 5 pts · 296d (1 reply)

If they had gotten the same actor who played the college football player, that would have made it better. They made a call back to the sketch in one of the East-West Bowl sketches where a player is named AY AY RON.

finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 296d

It being a real football player probably made a lot of people's day.

paperemail@links.rocks · 4 pts · 296d
toynbee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 296d

Did you know Key & Peele made an appearance in Weird Al's White & Nerdy?

jared@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 297d

Euler?

UltraBlack@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 296d

Oiler

nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 296d

E-U-LER.

paranoid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 296d

I was more disappointed than I'm willing to admit when Dr Robotnik pronounced it incorrectly in Sonic 3