[~ot] why is programming so fun?

[Yigal Chripun]

Chris Wright wrote:
> Yigal Chripun wrote:
>> you have your view of the world which you think is absolute based on
>> your seemingly very strong faith and therefore anything I say must be
>> wrong. and that's based on:
>> "the nth-hand re-interpretations of m-times "translated" stories related
>> by /man/, and attributed to the will, actions or purpose of a god" as
>> "Me Here" put so accurately in his post.
> 
> <pedantry style="misplaced">
> Nitpick: the pronunciation of 'man' is /m&n/, not /man/, assuming you're
> using CXS ( http://www.theiling.de/ipa/ ); it's /m{n/ in regular X-SAMPA
> ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-SAMPA ).
> </pedantry>

I do not understand any of the above signs of pronunciation and
unfortunately do not have the time to investigate the provided wikipedia
link. If I understand your point correctly you wanted to say:
"man => men", right?
anyway, I merely quoted the very well phrased snippet.