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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Bear in mind that that is how *I* pronounce it, but I am by no means an authority. I would also like to know what the "official" way is supposed to be.

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OMG! All these years I've been pronouncing maemo as "may-moe" but you pronounce it as something like "my-moe"! I would never have guessed! The rest I was pronouncing correctly. Thanks for all the recordings!
 
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#5892
unlike a lot of modern "made up stuff"
the lettering of Maemo ..specifically the "ae" in it ..
is lifted from Latin.
Latin being a nice clean dead language.
everything is tidily simple.
any other language that lettering and pronunciation is lifted from I would say there is tons of leeway for however anyone wishes to pronounce it..

Latin.
Nope .
Sorry.
with Latin...
pronunciation is either correct or incorrect.

I took Latin for years..
and "ae" is Latin in origin.
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#5893
I don’t think you can figure out how to pronounce it. To do that I guess you have to track down the creator. Likely a previous employer at Nokia. Likely to be native Finnish speaker...
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#5894
Its origin is Latin for god's sake.
The "æ" in mæmo is a grapheme.
"æ" ...it is a twisting modern-wise... of some current and older languages..
it is originally from the Latin "AE".

It used to be pronounced and spelled far differently than currently ... as AE in Latin.

Old English changed that with "æ"

pronunciation of "æ" in the modern context of current (doggerel) languages is a short "a" ...
as in "fat" , "bat" , "at" , "cat"

So figure it out.
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N8X0 VIDEO ENCODING THE EASY WAYhttp://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ght=mediacoder
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THE PAIN-FREE MAEMO DEVELOPMENT LIVE DISTRO-ISO FOR THE NOOB TO THE PROhttp://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=95567
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Originally Posted by endsormeans View Post
Its origin is Latin for god's sake.
The "æ" in mæmo is a grapheme.
"æ" ...it is a twisting modern-wise... of some current and older languages..
it is originally from the Latin "AE".

It used to be pronounced and spelled far differently than currently ... as AE in Latin.

Old English changed that with "æ"

pronunciation of "æ" in the modern context of current (doggerel) languages is a short "a" ...
as in "fat" , "bat" , "at" , "cat"

So figure it out.
True. If you speak Latin. But if the inventor don’t? And instead pronounce it slight different?
I’m not saying that is the case. But it could be since it’s a name.

Personally I would add some Finnish touch to it or something.
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https://www.ispeech.org/text.to.speech

Select Finnish, and type Maemo and i think we might have the answer if we assume the Maemo naming Boss at nokia was a native finnish speaker.
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#5898
first.
Sorry Dave...
If you wish to aim at the finnish inventors language who made and named the OS ...
as a logical starting point....
then..
there isn't "ae" ...in Mæmo .....it is "æ"....
HUGE spelling and pronunciation difference.

second...
still nothing has changed in pronunciation.
"æ" in finnish is spelled "ä"
and pronunciation of "ä" ..
Is STILL a short "a"...
as in "cat" , "bat" , "mat" , "flat" , etc.
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N8X0 VIDEO ENCODING THE EASY WAYhttp://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...ght=mediacoder
242gb ON N800http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=90634
THE PAIN-FREE MAEMO DEVELOPMENT LIVE DISTRO-ISO FOR THE NOOB TO THE PROhttp://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=95567
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Originally Posted by endsormeans View Post
first.
Sorry Dave...
If you wish to aim at the finnish inventors language who made and named the OS ...
as a logical starting point....
then..
there isn't "ae" ...in Mæmo .....it is "æ"....
HUGE spelling and pronunciation difference.

second...
still nothing has changed in pronunciation.
"æ" in finnish is spelled "ä"
and pronunciation of "ä" ..
Is STILL a short "a"...
as in "cat" , "bat" , "mat" , "flat" , etc.
Don't worry. I will get over it. In fact I have already moved on to the next big thing. Meego. The pronunciation. ME EGO
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MeGo
MeeGo
It’s the e that makes it. extra e that makes the sound.

MeeeGo
YouGo
yuugo
UGo

I wonder how they came up with the name meego. It doesn’t really fit Nokia branding. I would like to have some inside intel. Maybe a dinner with Ari Jaaksi.

Or do I have the rights to blame Intel for this naming debacle?

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