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userbinatortoday at 5:48 AM1 replyview on HN

I first thought "Elite Sinus Producer" and "The Sinus Creator" were trackers specifically designed for creating nasal-sounding music; but of course the explanation for why the term "sinus" came to be used instead of "sine" is likely because many demosceners were from a native European background, and their language retained the Latin origin word instead of deprecating its usage in favour of "sine", as happened in English.


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vidarhtoday at 6:34 AM

Can confirm it's sinus in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, French.

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