Talk:August Dvorak
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CORRECTION : John Dvorak is NOT the nephew of August Dvorak. He himself has even stated this in is own words
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How do we know that "August Dvorak's family in the U.S. pronounces it as [dvoɹæk]"? Tom 15:04, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
- I believe I've seen a better source somewhere, but certainly Cassingham states that "Dvorak" is pronounced "duh-VOR-ack" when referring to the keyboard. This is how I read [dvoɹæk], more or less. Cassingham acknowledges Dvorak's widow as a historical source, so presumably he had firsthand knowledge of her pronunciation. Mwbrooks 20:09, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
Well, how about this: I grew up (1959 'till his death) living next door to August Dvorak. I could write lots about him and his personal life. --BRoys (talk) 02:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
August Dvorak's obituary edit
Philip Davis wrote an obituary of August Dvorak in Computers and People, Vol.25, No.1 (January 1976), pp.16,34-35. Davis started the obituary with "August Dvorak, Ph. D., author of the forthcoming `Synergistic Typing for ASK' and of a hundred published scholarly works before it, died on October 9, 1975." Is "October 10, 1975" from Cassingham really right? - Koichi Yasuoka 11:00, 30 March 2007 (JST) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.54.130.67 (talk) 01:59, 30 March 2007 (UTC).
- As Mwbrooks stated above, Cassingham acknowledges Dvorak's widow as a historical source, so (in my opinion) it would be reasonable to conclude that she knew her husband's date of death. Jordon Kalilich 20:31, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
- Actually, it is quite common for nobody to know the exact date of death for sure, and for various sources to differ by a day, as for example when someone dies in their sleep overnight. What a widow or other family member remembers as a date of death might differ from what a doctor puts down on the death certificate, and who's to say if one is more correct then the other? Gene Nygaard (talk) 22:03, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Disambiguation? edit
Should there be a link from this page to the Dvorak disambiguation page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak There is a link from it to here. 143.52.85.255 (talk) 15:39, 19 January 2017 (UTC)