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disavowed
May 28th, 2004, 10:42
Most of us use IDA Pro. How do you pronounce "IDA"?
MEPHiST0
May 28th, 2004, 11:14
err i call it Interactive disassembler
Kayaker
May 28th, 2004, 11:14
I spell it, "eye-dee-ay"

I know someone who pronounces it, "eye-da"

When we chat verbally, I keep wondering who this Ida person is who's name keeps coming up...
naides
May 28th, 2004, 12:30
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[Originally Posted by Kayaker]I spell it, "eye-dee-ay"

I know someone who pronounces it, "eye-da"

When we chat verbally, I keep wondering who this Ida person is who's name keeps coming up...


I'd say "eye-da"

I think Ilfak is doing a word game with Lady Lovelace, Ada Byron, which I think is the woman portrayed in the Icon of the GUI version.

http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/love.htm
Iwarez
May 28th, 2004, 13:02
Locally I would pronounce it as ieh-dah, in english I pronounce it eye-da. It just depends on the language you speak
Woodmann
May 28th, 2004, 17:52
Not to split hairs with this but,
Since IDA represents the first letters of each word, it should be pronounced
eye-dee-aye.

eye-duh is a formal name that would be written as Ida.
Maybe Ilfak will tell us.

Woodmann
evaluator
May 28th, 2004, 23:44
thiz poll is for Ingech pronouncerz.(define)
esther
May 29th, 2004, 01:39
This poll is to teach you Ingech.
I call it I D A
or I DA
evaluator
May 29th, 2004, 06:03
why "or I DA"?

***
hey..Duddieman..
esther
May 29th, 2004, 11:35
>hey..Duddieman..

Don;t call me names I ain't him!!!!

I DA sounds nice
Woodmann
May 29th, 2004, 15:25
"or I DA"

They make frozen potato products

Woodmann
lifewire
May 30th, 2004, 05:58
I pronounce it in my motherlanguage which sounds in english somehow like:

ee - dah (with the ee as in 'geek')
dELTA
May 31st, 2004, 18:58
I pronounce it "ee-dah" too, just like lifewire, because it is the pronounciation of that name in my mother language too. Is your mother language by any chance Swedish, lifewire?
ByteZero
May 31st, 2004, 23:04
I would pronounce it "eye-dee-ay".
lifewire
June 1st, 2004, 04:41
no dELTA, it is dutch (but I have to say that dutch doesn't differ very much from swedish)
mike
June 2nd, 2004, 19:08
The girl in the IDA logo is obviously named "Ida", but does anyone know who it is?
dELTA
June 2nd, 2004, 19:23
An earlier post in this thread by naides suggested that it might be Ada Byron / Lady Lovelace. I guess there is at least some resemblance, and that woman also has some Belgian connections (the home country of Ilfak / IDA Pro):

http://www.mathematicianspictures.com/Mathematicians/Lovelace.htm
disavowed
June 3rd, 2004, 18:59
from the horse's mouth: http://www.datarescue.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=000085 ("http://www.datarescue.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=000085")
naides
June 3rd, 2004, 21:10
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[Originally Posted by disavowed]from the horse's mouth: http://www.datarescue.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=000085 ("http://www.datarescue.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=000085")



Babbage's lover, the first code analyst, Ada Lovelace certainly belongs in IDA's logo . . .
mike
June 3rd, 2004, 21:50
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[Originally Posted by naides]Babbage's lover, the first code analyst, Ada Lovelace certainly belongs in IDA's logo . . .

Babbage may have done more to hold back the development of computing machines than encourage it: www.thomasfowler.org.uk
http://www.mortati.com/glusker/