[Corpora-List] medication pronunciations

Khurshid Ahmad kahmad at cs.tcd.ie
Sun Mar 30 15:27:55 UTC 2008


Dear Colleagues
Upon returning from a brief time (3 days) away from my e-mail - I found it
clogged with short messages that may or may not be related to corpus
linguistics or corpora-based studies.  Respect the bandwidth friends.



> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Dr DJ Hatch wrote:
>
>> Mike Maxwell and Lucian Galescu  may well have just offered the most
>> persuasive argument in favour of literacy I¹ve come across.
>
>  	To me it sounds like the most persuasive argument against
> trademarking and branding that I've seen.  The problem wouldn't exist if
> the drug companies put enough effort into pronouncability and auditory
> distinctiveness, and didn't find it necessary to differentiate their own
> product so dramatically from their competitors'.
>
>  					-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
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Khurshid Ahmad

Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Trinity College,
DUBLIN-2
IRELAND
Phone 00 353 1 896 8429

Web Page: http://people.tcd.ie/kahmad


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