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From: tracy@hcrvax.UUCP (Tracy Tims)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: A Short Note on Dreadstar
Message-ID: <952@hcrvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 16:24:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  9 16:24:10 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 03:42:47 EDT
Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto
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I was thinking about ``Z'' in Dreadstar and I realized that his name is
another shining example of the right and proper Canadian method of
pronunciation.  You folks down there in the USofA say ``zee'', right?  What
does ``zee'' connote?  Let's see, it rhymes with ``free'', ``whee'', ``tree'',
and of course ``pee''.  Hardly awe-inspiring.  Up here, we say ``ZED''.  Now
what does that connote?  It rhymes with ``dread'' and even better, ``dead''!
Definitely a pronunciation with more drama and power.  Why the American
pronunciation is positively cringing in comparison.  There is just no way
I can take a comic book villain with a name like Pee, sorry, Zee, seriously.

I would like to personally congratulate every American on the persistence of
their civilization in the face of such essential handicaps.

                              Tracy Tims    {linus,allegra,decvax}!watmath!...
   Human Computing Resources Corporation             {lbl-csa,ihnp4,utzoo}!...
 Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  416 922-1937                   ...hcr!hcrvax!tracy