Comments on: How to pronounce ubuntu https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/ Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:18:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Forensic Penguin2 https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534072 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:18:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534072 Or just say you use Mint.

]]> By: anandine https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534071 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:17:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534071 Nathan Meyers wrote: What seems odd is to have a different name but the same spelling.

If by “different name,” you mean “different pronunciation,” see Mexico, France, Switzerland, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Guatamala, Australia,

]]> By: Kalimeros https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534070 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:27:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534070 Well, at least Spanish (Castellano -Castillian- for many of us) hasn’t taken a Great (English) Vowel Shift or a Great (German) Consonant Shift. So I can tell Ubuntu (OoBOONtoo, for you), without thinking about it. The same way I can say Ngorongoro pronouncing each consonant. Habari takes some training, because in Spanish ‘h’ at the beginning of a word has no sound (it’s a mute consonant we’ve been dragging around for centuries).

]]> By: Lowes Printable Coupon https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534069 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 08:33:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534069 Haha very interesting article! I’m glad I have always pronounced the word ‘ubuntu’ and ‘habari’ the right way. Although I was skeptical about whether it’s hay berry, I just knew by my guts that it’s not hay berry but haa baa ree! May be because I’m asian and I know french, I’m familier with different pronunciations.

]]> By: Nick https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534068 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:11:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534068 Tomato or to mah to. Never mind the pronunciation. It’s free and it’s better than Microslop-that’s how us Lie-nuxers say microsoft.

]]> By: AntiVaccine https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534067 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:41:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534067 I am glad I don’t use Linex or Youbuntee. Becuase if you can’t get off your high horse enough to actually stop worrying about this detail. The micromanagement must be out of control.

Its a computer, I turn it on. I do stuff. I turn it off.

]]> By: paris hilton https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534066 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:59:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534066 Are those vowels like, metric or something?

]]> By: Liz https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534065 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:19:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534065 Curse the damn vowel shift!

]]> By: timberwoof https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534064 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:14:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534064 It’s all the fault of the Great English Vowel Shift, which includes the most obvious transitions:

a -> e -> ey
e -> i
i -> a -> ay
o -> o -> ow
u -> u -> yu

Use the Roman encoding of sounds into glyphsâ??the “European vowels”â??to make sense of this.

These changes happened between Chaucer and Shakespeare, mostly on long or accented syllables. Plenty of other sounds entered the language. Unaccented vowels tend to degenrate to that strange uh sound, and in English English, to ur.

So any time you find a new word you don’t know how to pronounce, ignore the Great English Vowel Shift and use the proper Roman vowels. You are more likely to pronounce it correctly.

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534063 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:16:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/12/how-to-pronounce-ubuntu/#comment-534063 Nathan: M-W says “gnu” comes from the Khoikhoi “t’gnu”. I don’t have any idea of the grammatical role of the “t'”, if any.

Khoikhoi is not a langauge, but the t’gnu is probably a click at the beginning.

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