Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: How to pronounce the name (again, sorry)

2011/3/30 Italo Vignoli <italo.vignoli@gmail.com>

> I am not a native English speaker, but I think that "liberty" - which has
> the same root of libre - is not pronounced as "laiberty". I have heard many
> native English speakers pronounce libre, and they all pronounce it the same
> way.


Italo, you may have missed the first post in this thread, but there the OP
(Samphan Raruenrom) posted a Google Translate version (
http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|LibreOffice) in which the initial vowel
is, in fact, pronounced as «aɪ». If the native English speakers you have
heard pronounce it as «i» or «iː», then I think this, unlike the Google
Translate version, could serve as the basis for an international
pronunciation, which in any event will inevitably vary from language to
language (and idiolect to idiolect)....

Henri


> On 3/30/11 8:37 AM, M Henri Day wrote:
>
>  What, pray, is «the English pronunciation of "libre"» ? If the first vowel
> > is to be pronounced as «aɪ» as in, say, «live», it differs vastly from the
> > customary pronunciation in almost all European languages - Germanic as
> > well
> > as Romance - which is much closer to «iː», and can hardly serve as «the
> > reference for every language»....
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