From thatcat Sent Fri, Dec 18th 1998, 22:55
> > it stands for something? how'd you find this out? > > the illegible DR liner notes on 'incunabula' featuring lots of > humorously sober shoutouts to the whole 'gestalt communications crew' > etc. > > > btw - german. hard g. > > i'm confused: which is hard, which soft: 'jestalt,' 'guesstalt'? latter > pron. correct? 'jestalt' would be a soft "g". the word should be pronounced "geshtalt" (with a hard g like 'guess'), and therefore gescom would theoretically be "geshcom"...which is not necessarily how anyone involved would actually pronounce it, considering that most people say 'gestalt' with a soft g and an english 's' sound (as opposed to a german 's' sound). ...