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by eli 4678 days ago
Allegedly the name "Polish Notation" stuck because nobody could pronounce its inventor's name: Jan Łukasiewicz
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The correct pronunication is “John Wookuh-shev-eetch”, according to my decoding of the IPA notation [ˈjan wukaˈɕɛvʲitʂ] from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_%C5%81ukasiewicz) using Wikipedia’s help page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Polish.
Rather Ian with harder/stronger I than John. Well Polish it is not that hard. It's only second hardest language on the world (China I look at you) If it is hard for you. Well try to spell this thing correctly "Zażółć żółtą jaźń" or "Chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie"

Sorry for OT.

All thing look really amaizing. I'd love to see more in this topic.

I'm gonna make a wallpaper right now with his name on it.
Poor guy. I wonder how many light bulbs he had to screw in before people learned his name.