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Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

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Re: Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

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Post by electroagenda »

electroagenda wrote: post #69
andresgottlieb wrote: post #63

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Could you please give an example of a word where th is hispanized as z?

The phoneme 'th' does not exist in Spanish. So, we tend to mispronounce it. Many of us, at least for the native European Spanish speakers, pronounce a Spanish 'z' instead of 'th'. By the way, the spanish phoneme 'z' is pronounced differently to the english phoneme 'z'.

Just to be more precise:

We can do that in "think" or "thanks". But not in "they". In the latter case we tend to mispronounce it as a Spanish phoneme 'd'.

Re: Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A “Breakthrough in Computational Lithography”

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Post by ErneX »

29athrowaway wrote: post #52
copperx wrote: post #47

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> And the fact that you are native Spanish speaker makes little difference here. How trustworthy is a native Spanish speaker? You will know it when you navigate the Spanish speaking Internet and find most of it are antivaxxers, flat earthers and people that believe "US Navy" is a given name ("Usnavy"). I know this because I have native Spanish proficiency as well. Whoa. Even though I'm a Latino, I've never been offen…

> Whoa. Even though I'm a Latino, I've never been offended or felt discriminated against while living in the USA these last 20 years. I am glad that you have not been offended or discriminated on the basis of race, ethnicity or national origin in 20 years. That sounds amazing and I hope that trend extends further into the future. The sad part is that it is irrelevant in this context. You could be an elf immigrant liv…

I’m Venezuelan and I lived half my life there and half in Spain. TH is pronounced as T in Spanish. So “culitho” is “culito” which is small ass in Spanish.

What a weird discussion.

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Post by favsq »

stormfather wrote: post #9
copperx wrote: post #2

I'd bet my house over a donut that a Spanish-speaking employee at Nvidia came up with that name. As my friend put it: "hmm, CuLitho de envidia."

I'm a Spanish speaker and it doesn't sound funny to me. Slight differences in your native language are very distinctive, so I don't read "Culito" when I see it. Do you think Apple computers is too close to Asshole?

How exactly do you have to pronounce Apple to make it sound like asshole?

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Post by rbanffy »

cubefox wrote: post #20
copperx wrote: post #2

I'd bet my house over a donut that a Spanish-speaking employee at Nvidia came up with that name. As my friend put it: "hmm, CuLitho de envidia."

Oh. I was not aware that Nvidia means envy... (Because people would envy your for the amazing 3D graphics?)

I always remember HP started their Envy laptop line with an almost identical MacBook clone (in silver plastic, because HP).

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Post by pezezin »

29athrowaway wrote: post #18
estebarb wrote: post #15

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In Spanish the H is silent, except with the C consonant (like in chat, champagne...). So, Th would be pronounced like just T. For example, thermo and now culitho.

Thermo is a loan word that people hispanize as "termo" (the Spanish equivalent).

Yeah, and "litho" is also a Greek root than in Spanish is written "lito": https://dle.rae.es/lito-#NRayp6C

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Post by KeplerBoy »

gonzus wrote: post #50
copperx wrote: post #2

I'd bet my house over a donut that a Spanish-speaking employee at Nvidia came up with that name. As my friend put it: "hmm, CuLitho de envidia."

Reminds me of the pico editor -- pico means penis in some Spanish-speaking countries (it also means beak, FWTW). I remember contacting that project to let them know, I guess they thought it would be alright.

At some point you have to acknowledge that you can't have it all.

People who think of dicks when reading pico instead of 1e-12 are probably not your target audience.

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Post by pezezin »

WJW wrote: post #57
Insanity wrote: post #4

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My immediate thought was that they should have run this past any Spanish speaker in the company lol

Maybe they did and all involved thought it was hilarious.

I'm from Spain and knowing the average Spanish person, I can tell you that is exactly what would happen, followed by a "no hay huevos" (literally "no balls").

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Post by pantulis »

favsq wrote: post #74
copperx wrote: post #2

I'd bet my house over a donut that a Spanish-speaking employee at Nvidia came up with that name. As my friend put it: "hmm, CuLitho de envidia."

Que no me entere que ese culitho pasa hambre.

SQLite que no pase hambre.

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Post by qwezxcrty »

exabrial wrote: post #48

Perhaps someone can explain to me, why aren't x-rays or another high frequency EMF used? Sure we can't bounce x-rays off mirrors like we can light (or can we?), but seems like a logical step we've never taken for some reason I'm ignorant to.

EUV is already into soft X ray and behaves like X ray.
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