[Corpora-List] medication pronunciations

[Marc FRYD]

Dear Corpora-listers,
A given topic may be of little interest to some and absolutely thrilling 
to others. I fall into the second category as regards the bio-med 
pronunciations thread.
With best regards,
Marc FRYD




Khurshid Ahmad a écrit :
> 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
>>  					grvsmth at panix.com_______________________________________________
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Dr. Marc FRYD
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