nitpick

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by Dionysus (in part)
It's Zeeeee(Xi)- not zeye

It's Pheye(Phi)- not Pheeeee (unless Alpha Phi)

It's Keye(Chi)- not sheye or cheye

It's Pie(Pi)- not pee

Unless one is actually speaking Greek, of course. Then it's "KSee," "Fee," "CHee" (with the a German or Scots-style "ch"), and "Pee."

[starang21]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
Would Sigma to the 3rd Power work?

sigma cubed?

[starang21]

Originally posted by MysticCat81
Unless one is actually speaking Greek, of course. Then it's "KSee," "Fee," "CHee" (with the a German or Scots-style "ch"), and "Pee."

i talked to some greek cat from greece and he said we butcher the shit out of their langquage. like he told me Iota was pronouned like yoda or something crazy like that.

[SATX*APhi]

Originally posted by Dionysus
It's Taw(Tau)- not towel

I say "towel" because the AST's on my campus refer to themselves as "Alpha Sigma TOWEL." No other group on campus has "Tau" in their name, so they are the only group I could refer to.

As for the Tri-Sig thing, we have a Tri Sigma chapter on our campus and I always hear people refering to themselves as Tri Sig's. I know better b/c of GC, but TONSSS of people say "Tri Sig" on my campus.

[oceanphi01]

The whole alumnae/alumni thing really annoys me. That's the big thing in our chapter. Ugh! And no, I'm not an English major. I'm about as far from that as you can get!

[Kevin]

Originally posted by oceanphi01
The whole alumnae/alumni thing really annoys me. That's the big thing in our chapter. Ugh! And no, I'm not an English major. I'm about as far from that as you can get!

When in doubt say "alum"

[PSUSigKap]

the women of sigma sigma sigma call themselves tri-sig on our campus, as does the rest of the greek community. forgive me for being in the dark, but why is "tri-sig" so bad?

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by starang21
i talked to some greek cat from greece and he said we butcher the shit out of their language. like he told me Iota was pronouned like yoda or something crazy like that.

Exactly. In Greek (as in many if not most other European languages), "I" represents the sound "ee," not the diphthong "eye" ("ah" followed quickly by "ee"). Say it quickly and the "ee" in "ee-o-ta" becomes "Y," so that you get "yota." We (and the Brits) have anglicized the names of most Greek letters.

Now, the really weird ones in Greek are Mu and Nu, which are pronounced "mee" and "nee." Can't tell you why.

[LeslieAGD]

Originally posted by MysticCat81
Not according to my dictionary.

And what dictionary is that?

[CutiePie2000]

Originally posted by PSUSigKap
the women of sigma sigma sigma call themselves tri-sig on our campus, as does the rest of the greek community. forgive me for being in the dark, but why is "tri-sig" so bad?

I don't know, but are you aware of your "Tri-Sig" brothers?
Go here:
http://www2.potsdam.edu/greek/Delta....dkhistory.html
Delta Kappa Theta Fraternity was originally a local Fraternity called Sigma Sigma Sigma, or Tri-Sigma. W.W. II caused Tri-Sig to disband. After the war the returning brothers of Tri-Sig formed, Sigma Tau with the intent of joining a National Fraternity.

[DeltaSigStan]

I always did wonder why Sigma Sigma Sigma didn't like the nick Tri-Sig.

It doesn't really bother me, but I find it weird that our Michigan chapters go by "Delt Sig" and not "Delta Sig" as we're nationally nicknamed. At our Las Vegas Conclave, someone made a joke out of it, but don't remember what it was.

BTW, 12dn94st, about what Tom said, this is TOM we're talking about.

[Tom Earp]

OH STAN, ye of little faith!

What is scarry, if you get your butt out of SD and come to Kansas, I am damn sure, well, we would have one hell of a night on the town!!!!!

I have no freinds on the COP Shop in Mo. but do on the KCKs Side! Would call one to come and get us out of Jail!

Well maybe in the future or back to it!

[DeltaSigStan]

On my budget, I can only afford cheap stuff like PBR and triple filtered popov, and I wouldn't buy that for you, and I wouldn't let you buy expensive stuff on account of me.

[33girl]

Here's the Tri-Sig versus Tri-Sigma thread. http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...&threadid=8388

A lot of times the national will try to get a "unified" name used, but it has varying degrees of success (AGD/Alpha Gam, ASA/Alpha Sig, SDT/Sig Delts). It's like naming a baby Elizabeth - one person will call her Liz, another Beth, another Betsy, another Izzy. If the chapter is happy with the nickname, I really don't see what the difference is.

[sugar and spice]

I still want to know what the official reason for outlawing "Tri Sig" is, if there is one . . . I think the thread makes it more complicated, rather than clearing it up. The whole "We're not Tri Sigs, we're Sigma Sigma Sigma" thing doesn't really make sense to me, considering the fact that then you would also rule out any other nicknames, including the supposedly acceptable "Tri Sigma" and "Sigmas."

Of course it's the sorority's decision to call themselves whatever they want, but without some sort of significant justification I think they'll always be fighting it -- there are people who are always going to refer to it as "Tri Sig."