ISO = I-S-O or "eyeso"?
May 5, 2014 08:42:22 #
djmills wrote:
Are you a member of that great legislative body in Washington DC?
No....I work in corporate America. The legislative body doesn't have con calls. They fly to their meetings.
May 5, 2014 09:12:39 #
May 5, 2014 09:24:45 #
Swamp Gator wrote:
Huh, interesting.
I don't think I ever heard anybody try to make it a word before and pronounce it eyeso.
But then again I don't remember anyone ever calling ASA assa either.
I don't think I ever heard anybody try to make it a word before and pronounce it eyeso.
But then again I don't remember anyone ever calling ASA assa either.
But then, before that there was DIN (German Institute for Standardization), and it was never pronounced as D.I.N. but always Din.
I find I.S.O. and A.S.A. easier to say than Eyeso and Asa. In the long run, it will be the usage that determines what is correct. And before we settle on a "correct" pronounciation, these "standards" will be superseded by a "new and improved" standard :wink:
May 5, 2014 09:47:17 #
kanap wrote:
I hear this term pronounced both ways on commercial and You Tube videos; as individual letters (I S O) and also as if it were a word (eyeso). Is there a correct or preferred pronunciation?
My photo teacher always said "eye-so", it was the first time I'd heard it pronounced as one word. I thought it sounded a little weird.
The car I drive is an SHO [Super High Output] and I always say "show". If I hear S. H. O. I think it sounds weird. It's whatever we get used to.
May 5, 2014 09:58:16 #
Mogul wrote:
I haven't the faintest idea what he's trying to say!
Same thing as that you will get a better shot if you say "Cheese" rather than "Smile!" :roll:
May 5, 2014 10:08:58 #
Spektra
Loc: Arequipa Peru South America
Founded in 1917 and still in use, DIN is an acronym for Deutsche Industrie-Norm 'German Industrial Standard' (as laid down by the Deutsches Institut für Normung 'German Institute for Standards'). So we have ISO, ASA, DIN. What's next. In today's "Globalized" world, Standards should be ... "Standardized"
May 5, 2014 10:13:43 #
Um... Has no one here noticed the the abbreviation for "International Organization for Standards" would be "IOS" not "ISO"?
And I guess no one would notice that that abbreviation would be "ISO" or "IOS" only in ENGLISH. In French it would be "OIN" for "Organisation internationale de normalisation".
The organization is named "ISO" from the Latin word "Isos" ("equal" ) and is pronounced "eye-so".
And I guess no one would notice that that abbreviation would be "ISO" or "IOS" only in ENGLISH. In French it would be "OIN" for "Organisation internationale de normalisation".
The organization is named "ISO" from the Latin word "Isos" ("equal" ) and is pronounced "eye-so".
May 5, 2014 10:17:35 #
You can say it either way, it stands for International Standards Organization, it used to be ASA or American Standards Organization. It just refers to the light sensitivity of film, and now of the sensitivity of the CMOS.
May 5, 2014 10:19:56 #
JamesCurran wrote:
Um... Has no one here noticed the the abbreviation... (show quote)
From Wikipedia -
"The three official languages of the ISO are English, French and Russian.[3] As its name would have different abbreviations in different languages ("IOS" is English, "OIN" in French, etc.), the organization adopted "ISO", derived from the Greek word isos (ἴσος, meaning equal), as its abbreviated name.[4]"
May 5, 2014 10:22:39 #
Michael66
Loc: Queens, New York
JamesCurran wrote:
Um... Has no one here noticed the the abbreviation... (show quote)
Ah. No. It is called "International Organization for Standardization" and is an abbreviation. I almost said an acronym, but folks get hung up on what that word means.
Outside of the US, you will find that these kinds of abbreviations are pronounced as if they are a word, like U.F.O. is pronounced as three letters; U F O; in the States. Most elsewhere, it is pronounced as ufo, as if a word. Even in those countries where the words "Unidentified Flying Saucer" would obviously be different in that local language.
May 5, 2014 10:32:53 #
Michael66
Loc: Queens, New York
jerryc41 wrote:
From Wikipedia -
"The three official languages of the ISO are English, French and Russian.[3] As its name would have different abbreviations in different languages ("IOS" is English, "OIN" in French, etc.), the organization adopted "ISO", derived from the Greek word isos (ἴσος, meaning equal), as its abbreviated name.[4]"
"The three official languages of the ISO are English, French and Russian.[3] As its name would have different abbreviations in different languages ("IOS" is English, "OIN" in French, etc.), the organization adopted "ISO", derived from the Greek word isos (ἴσος, meaning equal), as its abbreviated name.[4]"
Yes, true, but ISO is still an abbreviation. It was picked as the universal abbreviation because of its closeness to the Greek word. After the fact...
May 5, 2014 11:27:58 #
Michael66 wrote:
Ah. No. It is called "International Organization for Standardization" and is an abbreviation.
No, It is called "International Organization for Standardization" in ENGLISH.
Being English- (and US-)centric is a bad precedent for an organization based on international cooperation. Hence it has a meaningless name created specifically for this occasion based on a dead language, rather that a phrase from a specific language.
And regardless, the real question was the pronunciation --- which is "eyeso". (I've been to ISO Standardization meetings -- for the C++ programming language -- so I've heard the official word on it)
May 5, 2014 11:50:46 #
May 5, 2014 11:56:42 #
IOS (The International Organization for Standardization) publishes many standards, like the ISO 7000 series on graphic symbols, the ISO 9000 series on quality and related issues and the ISO 14000 series on environmental management.
In the business world, these are almost always pronounced "eye-so", so I let that influence my preferred choice for its use on sensor sensitivity.
In the business world, these are almost always pronounced "eye-so", so I let that influence my preferred choice for its use on sensor sensitivity.
May 5, 2014 13:07:28 #
Mogul wrote:
I haven't the faintest idea what he's trying to say!
I think he means that your photography will definitely improve if you say the words right... :shock:
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