Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Get and appove: recommended Soundfile pronouncing "LibreOffice"

I agree, as English spoken by Americans is different to correct English, 
however, not all words are pronounced different. For example if an 
American says secondary, he/she will prounouce it as secondairy. 
English, Australians, New Zealand, will prounounce it as Secondri.
Len Copley.

On 1/04/2011 10:26 PM, M Henri Day wrote:
> 2011/4/1 dionysien<jean-francois.bourdin@univ-paris8.fr>
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > We must keep in mind that languages vary enormously with respect non only
> > to
> > their available vowels and consonants, but also to their possible
> > syllables.
> >
> > The component words of LibreOffice, though quite common international
> > words,
> > have already diverging pronounciations wordwide.
> > We already know that in Japanese  a vowel will HAVE to be inserted between
> > B
> > and R, and probably also at the end, just because the syllabic pattern of
> > Japanese commands it. And that is right so, even if the phonetic
> > [libureofisu] differs from [librofis]
> >
> > Some will need the  of Libre, "à la Spanish", others won't, "à la French",
> > others will pronounce a double , "à la Italian", others, lacking a [o]
> > vowel, will put a [u] to pronounce the ...
> >
> > No single recommendation is necessary or even usable. We must also remember
> > that in the language used in this forum, the very name of vowels is mostly
> > a... diphtong
> > Let every language community decide for the most suitable pronunciation,
> > according to their possibilities and wishes.
> >
> > That diversity just reflects the richness of word cultures. We can share a
> > common LibreOffice and call it in our mother tongue.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jean-François
> Agree, Jean François ; moreover, not only does the syllabic pattern of
> Japanese necessitate the insertion of a vowel or vowels in consonant
> clusters, but the same imperative holds true to an even greater degree in
> (standard) Chinese. Thus it is inevitable that the term «LibreOffice» will
> be pronounced differently from land to land, language to language, dialect
> to dialect. As the same time, the concerns of posters who wonder how it can
> be pronounced in their respective languages should not be ignored. Why not
> post mp3 files with pronunciations by tdf developers from various countries
> which could help in the construction of standards for the many languages in
> which, hopefully, LibreOffice will employed. Friedrich's German-lnguage
> version is a good example....
>
> Henri


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