Comments on: Wrap up

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 26 May 2006 04:50:26 +0000

@Fatimma: If I haven’t said it before, welcome aboard! Congratulations on the new job. I’m sure you will do just fine. Now, if nobody’s told you, you are supposed to bring coffee to the NT meetings for everyone You should call around so we can place orders before the meetings.

By: Fatimma

Fatimma — Sun, 21 May 2006 04:08:13 +0000

Seems like I’m just time to chime in on a hot discussion topic. My vote goes to the version ending in “-ae.” I see that the previously available position of PHS Net Tech was mentioned in your post. ***All’s well that ends well….*** New blood is always a good thing.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 18 May 2006 01:10:33 +0000

I’m glad Jessi’s thing is cleared up. First of all, since Mark leaves out the tilde in spelling, but pronounces it anyway, we should too. On spelling this weird plural, it’s a hard one, but “Ordoni” doesn’t work for me. I suppose my problem comes from the fact that “Ordonez” is a Spanish name, and “-i” would make it Ordonyee. The fact that it will be used in proximity to the newly coined “Bertoni,” and Mark’s former use of “MarkOmni” creates a strong chance of a miscue. People will read “Ordonee” or “Ordonyee.”

The better candidate, to me, is “-ae.” It has some relation to the latin roots of the Spanish word. It is pronounced “eye” and is, like “-i”, a plural ending in Latin. The feminist in me (stop laughing, Chris), likes the fact that “-ae” is more often used for feminine nouns and “-i” for masculine. Chris took Mark’s name, the least we can do is give her the more feminized spelling of the odd new word.

By: jessi

jessi — Wed, 17 May 2006 01:00:08 +0000

Oh right. The Ordoni — I’m a freaking moron. I kept spelling it Ordonii, just cuz I thought it looked cooler. I would actually put a “-” over the [i], now that I think about it. I think I call you the Ordon’ai in the story. Hmmm…

Anyway, sorry for totally forgetting that.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 16 May 2006 16:27:57 +0000

Either way, I’m not going to bother to learn anytime soon how to type it on a 104-key US keyboard. If anyone is wondering, it’s code 241 - ñ. I didn’t learn it, I looked it up on my bulletin board — I have a character entity reference sheet *cough*geek*cough*

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 16 May 2006 14:54:47 +0000

Forgive my misspelling…it is tilde, not tilda.

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 16 May 2006 14:49:16 +0000

I can’t believe I am about to weigh in on this exchange, but here goes:

It can’t be Ordonii unless you want to pronounce each of the two i’s individually (as in Hawaii)…phonetically, it would be Or-don-eee-aye (”aye” sounds like the word “I” as in “aye, Captain”). My vote goes to Ordoni with an enye (n with tilda) instead of a normal “n”. For all our sakes, we should now talk about something else.

By: Giancola

Giancola — Tue, 16 May 2006 09:01:22 +0000

I believe Ordonii…

Or possibly Ordoni with a tilda over the n…

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 16 May 2006 05:34:28 +0000

I thought we were the Ordoni (or is that Ordonei or Ordonii?).

By: Giancola

Giancola — Tue, 16 May 2006 03:37:52 +0000

Markris?