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jimhelm 09-28-2012 05:03 PM

Boca Raton Fl

footfootfoot 09-28-2012 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by jimhelm (Post 832137)
ok, but how are you going to pronounce it? like bouquet? or Boca?

It's a Japanese word, so I'd guess Bo-keh, like meh?

Elspode 09-28-2012 08:42 PM

It's Bow-Kah. Spanish for "mouth". Yes, the city is named "Rat Mouth" in Spanish.

xoxoxoBruce 09-29-2012 08:30 AM

According to Wiki, usually BOH-kay, or sometimes BOH-kə, but I still don't know how to pronounce a rotated e.

footfootfoot 09-29-2012 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 832194)
According to Wiki, usually BOH-kay, or sometimes BOH-kə, but I still don't know how to pronounce a rotated e.

It's pronounced like the a in about.

xoxoxoBruce 09-29-2012 08:43 AM

Unless you're Canadian. ;)

jimhelm 09-29-2012 09:26 AM


jimhelm 09-29-2012 09:30 AM

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interesting read

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I first learned about "bo-ke" or boke in 1995, from Carl Weese, who learned about it from our mutual friend the oracular and extreme Oren Grad, who holds eight Master's degrees, three Ph.D.s, and an M.D., and who evidently taught himself Japanese so he could read Japanese photo magazines. (Perhaps I exaggerate these facts, but only slightly.) I then commissioned and published three articles about it in the March/April 1997 issue of Photo Techniques back when I was editor — one each by John Kennerdell, who is an American ex-pat living in Bangkok, Oren himself, and Harold Merklinger, a high-ranking research scientist in the Canadian defense establishment. It's one of the few issues of that magazine that sold out. My own contribution was...er, a letter. I decided that people too readily mispronounced "boke," so I added an "h" to the word in our articles, and voilá, "bokeh" was born. A Google search for the word "bokeh" just now resulted in approximately 13,300 hits. Seems the idea's gotten around.

Actually, to be precise, what I had noticed was not just that people mispronounced the word as it was commonly spelled, but that they had a tendency to ridicule it, making lame jokes about it as if it rhymed with "smoke" or "toke" or "joke." Actually, even spelled boke, it is properly pronounced with bo as in bone and ke as in Kenneth, with equal stress on either syllable. It is a Japanese word meaning, roughly, "fuzzy," and it is used to describe old people with cobwebs in their heads among several other things — including the out-of-focus areas of photographs, which, I'm told, might more specifically be referred to as "boke-aji."
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and here's some more tasty knowledge about how it happens

Gravdigr 09-30-2012 05:17 PM

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the oracular and extreme Oren Grad, who holds eight Master's degrees, three Ph.D.s, and an M.D., and who evidently taught himself Japanese so he could read Japanese photo magazines.
Holy higher education, Batman!

Ibby 10-02-2012 02:20 AM

Only a WTF in a metaphysical sense. Mostly just a holy shit deep, philosophy and shit picture.
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma...50igo1_500.jpg

ZenGum 10-02-2012 06:46 AM

Commits the fallacy of composition though.

A physicist is a carefully arranged bunch of atoms trying to understand atoms.

Which is still pretty mind blowing.

Gravdigr 10-03-2012 04:37 PM

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I left this pic larger, cuz, I want you to read the big yellow sign dead center (almost) of the explosion.

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Shouldn't that read "Entering Vehicle Out of Control Zone"?

ZenGum 10-03-2012 07:17 PM

Holy $#!&!!!

What a moment, and what a picture to catch it.

One of the most important skills in life is being able to recognise those very rare moments when it suddenly becomes absolutely necessary to pull the big red emergency handle NOW!

footfootfoot 10-03-2012 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 832636)
Commits the fallacy of composition though.

A physicist is a carefully arranged bunch of atoms trying to understand atoms.

Which is still pretty mind blowing.

Ahh, the fallacy of composition. Trips them up every time!

ZenGum 10-04-2012 12:34 AM

Silly physicists, they're soooo reductionistic!


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