Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

On 3 oct. 10, at 08:21, Graham Lauder wrote:

> On Sunday 03 Oct 2010 15:00:04 Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > --- On Sat, 10/2/10, Ron House <rhouse@smartchat.net.au> wrote:
> > > From: Ron House <rhouse@smartchat.net.au>
> > > Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name
> > > To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
> > > Date: Saturday, October 2, 2010, 6:35 PM
> > >
> > > On 02/10/10 23:41, Mirek M. wrote:
> > > > Well, "Open Office" was usually the spoken term used
> > >
> > > to refer to
> > >
> > > > OpenOffice.org, and I'd say that's much easier to
> > >
> > > pronounce than
> > >
> > > > LibreOffice. And it flows much more nicely.
> > > > "LibreOffice" is hard to pronounce the French way
> > >
> > > because there are two
> > >
> > > > (written) vowels next to each other. That's one thing
> > >
> > > the French language
> > >
> > > > tries to avoid, by having special forms for the few
> > >
> > > adjectives that come
> > >
> > > > before nouns that start with a vowel, like "bel",
> > >
> > > "vieil", and "nouvel". So
> > >
> > > > LibreOffice doesn't really fit in with French
> > >
> > > pronunciation either...
It fits perfectly with French language. The last e of Libre is not
pronounced (mute e). That is the whole thing is pronounced as
Libroffice (or librofis - last e not pronounced again).
But frankly I don't understand this discussion. Which language will be

used at most in 10 years? Probably not a western language and probably

not written in roman characters.
Meanwhile, users as me wait for bug fixes.

Michèle Garoche

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