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

On 3/30/11 6:18 PM, M Henri Day wrote:

> 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)....

I have probably overlooked the first posts on this thread, but I don't 
think there might be any doubt about the fact that "libre" derives from 
the latin "libertas" and cannot be pronounced in any other way than "i" 
(I am really amazed by the paramount ignorance of Google Translate, as 
even a computer should understand that "libre" has nothing to do with 
"liber": latin for book, and root for "library").

By the way, libre is both French and Spanish, so there are at least two 
native pronunciation. It might be portuguese as well, but I'm not sure 
and I can't check now.

In any native pronunciation, the second letter is an "i", while there 
are differences on the third and the following letters.

Ciao, Italo

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