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Poll Results: How do you like to pronounce 'Sager'

 
  • 28% (33)
    say'-jer (like german without the -man)
  • 63% (74)
    say'-ger (like girl without the 'L')
  • 0% (1)
    sah'-zser (like saga with a zsa and a R)
  • 7% (9)
    sager (pronounced like 'say-jizzle')
117 Total Votes  
post #21 of 41
10/15/03 at 3:08pm
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Originally posted by samurai182
Silly Americans, when will you ever learn correct pronounciation?
OMFG, thats reminds me of "Robin Williams Live on Broadway". Greatest ****.
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post #22 of 41
10/15/03 at 3:22pm
I've always pronounced it Say-grrr myself. 'Guess Say-jrrr is the way now.

Sah'-zser sounds like something Goldmember would say from the latest Austin Powers movie... "Aushtin Powersh fah-zhaw is hole-ding his Sah-zser". "Shmoke and a pancake? Shigar and a waffle? Pipe and a crepe? Bong and a blitz? Sah-zser and a backache?"

OK, I'm done now.
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post #23 of 41
10/15/03 at 6:15pm
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Originally posted by One
I've always pronounced it Say-grrr myself. 'Guess Say-jrrr is the way now.

Sah'-zser sounds like something Goldmember would say from the latest Austin Powers movie... "Aushtin Powersh fah-zhaw is hole-ding his Sah-zser". "Shmoke and a pancake? Shigar and a waffle? Pipe and a crepe? Bong and a blitz? Sah-zser and a backache?"

OK, I'm done now.
LMFAO
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post #24 of 41
10/16/03 at 3:45pm
saahhh-grrrr

Silly People

Oh yes, and mine is being delivered today @ 5.


Here's to no dead/stuck pixels:



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post #25 of 41
10/16/03 at 4:19pm
Doesn't matter if you do. If they are in the middle and really noticeable (like mine) they will replace it anyway...... unlike mine........

NS
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post #26 of 41
10/16/03 at 5:10pm
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Originally posted by NightShade737
Doesn't matter if you do. If they are in the middle and really noticeable (like mine) they will replace it anyway...... unlike mine........

NS
That's cool but that means I have to wait even longer to get mine up and running.

More silly dancing bananas for the god of superior pixels:

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post #27 of 41
10/16/03 at 5:13pm
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Originally posted by Gregor7777
More silly dancing bananas for the god of superior pixels:
I killed the god of superior pixels.

NS
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post #28 of 41
2/23/04 at 12:10am
So I'm resurrecting this ancient thread because I'm still confused about the "midern" part of their name. I mean, Sager can just be some ambiguous name they decided to give themselves, like "Sony" or "Google" but ... Midern?

I was at the post office, mailing my 8887 off for an RMA. The guy asked if it was supposed to be Midern or Modern...

...perhaps a typo? =P
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post #29 of 41
2/23/04 at 12:25am
Holy crap, almost an exact topic of mine, posted four months earlier.....
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post #30 of 41
2/23/04 at 12:44am
Maybe it was another company and they merged. Sager and Midern. Just a thought - it would have had to be an event over 20 years ago.
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post #31 of 41
2/23/04 at 12:50am
Why does everyone say that "sager" is Chinese in origin? If you look in an English dictionary you will see it is really a word. It means a wise person.
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post #32 of 41
2/23/04 at 1:12am
Sorry Delta, the world does not revolve around all things english. Take for example "delta" - isn't that really greek or is that aramic?
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post #33 of 41
2/23/04 at 1:17am
It is the anglicized form of a greek letter.
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post #34 of 41
2/23/04 at 1:30am

$@gæ®

$@gæ® <---- this is how i pronounce it,
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post #35 of 41
2/23/04 at 3:47am
Thread Starter 
i guess SAJER is the way to say it, but i dont think that's the main problem. regardless of how u pronounce it, it would help psychologyically to know what sager means.

in the interest of truth and justice, i sent an email to sager asking what sager and midern meant/ where they came from. they kindly replied something like 'midern is the company and sager is the brand'. i guess kind of like a dell inspiron where inspiron would be like sager. but that didnt really help me.

i mean, regarding the manufacturer names: dell, apple, gateway and ibm we know that they mean/refer to: a guys name, an overpriced yet attractive piece of fruit in a rainbow of colors, a doorway for entering another area, and international business machines (or whatever) or for Inspiron we can figure out that it refers to Inspiration. but is sager derived from "sage" - wise person? or what? and what of midern? these things are a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a vest!

even though it may seem trivial to worry about semantics when there are important bus speeds and video cards to discuss; i think this issue is fundamental to the future success of Sager. how can the average consumer embrace a computer who's name has no meaning? or sounds so curious rolling off the tongue without any explaination?

bonus off topic: heres my newest innovation, tv antenna
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post #36 of 41
2/23/04 at 4:44am
How stupid do I feel (don't answer that), I been running around telling everyone and there mother how bad azz my say-grrrr is.
Well, I don't care how you say it, all I know is my Sajer 8890 kick azz this past weekend at a LAN party I went to.
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post #37 of 41
2/23/04 at 5:18pm
Well, as for the meaning of "sager",

We can assume that its meaning is the same as the English word "sager", which is an inflected form of the noun form of "sage", which means "wise person". This is very probably because Sager, after all, is an American company.

Or we can assume that the word is Chinese in origin. Then we are in a quandary: is it translated using the old phoenics system or using the Pinyin system? If it was translated using the Pinyin system, then it roughly means "to kill one's brother". Guess we can rule that out.

I didn't even try to figure out the meaning of Midern. Maybe some guy inadvertently misspelled Modern and the name stuck.
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post #38 of 41
2/23/04 at 5:58pm
Maybe the "to kill one's brother" could mean "kick ass"?
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post #39 of 41
2/23/04 at 6:24pm
Nope. "sa" == sand, to kill, stupidity. "ger" == bigger brother, music, pigeons, separator, protrusion, to sing, faux-leather.

Of course, that's just the pinyin system. There are other systems...
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post #40 of 41
2/23/04 at 10:25pm
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Originally Posted by myrkat
I have to think about it to pronounce it "say-jer" so I usually think of it as "say-grrr" when dreaming about my lappy... what? you don't dream of your baby when you're away?!

-myrkat
1. I have been pronuncing it sag jer. Was told by Brian @Sager that it was Chinese for "getting geeks laid" I'm married so I am given a double whammy................

2. Had dream last nite that Beachbum had ripped his 4780 down and found a hidden USB port. He was even nice enought to post pictures of the hidden port. That is the last time I eat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups before I go to bed.................
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