On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 07:26:52PM +0100, Christophe Courtois wrote: > Le Dimanche 2 Novembre 2003 07:20, Bijan Soleymani a d?clam? : > > > Hmmm... what exactly does the word "Linux" sound like in French? > > The Li is kind of like Lee, > > the nux is kind of like nooks. > > It seems that people speaking only English can't pronounce the 'u' the > way we use it - does not seem to exist in English. This is the same as > the '?' in German if it can help someone (we're the only language to > pronounce 'u' that way...) Well I did say kind of like :) You're right though, none of the other languages I am familiar with has that same u sound (English, Farsi (well we don't have the letter u, because we use Arabic script...), Spanish), I don't remember much latin but I don't think they had it either (I think u was pronounced like oo). But I do think that Swedish might have a similar sound for u. I have a friend who speaks some Swedish and he confirms it :) Wait I just found this on a website about latin: short y a rare vowel in Latin; combines English long oo and ih, as in French u or German ü tu (Fr.); über (Ger.) long y likewise rare; still combining English long oo and ih, for a longer time tu (Fr.); über (Ger.), with emphasis Well I guess they had the sound but not for 'u'. This is cool because I believe the Finnish also pronounce y the same way, which is weird, because Finnish isn't really related to latin... Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> http://www.crasseux.com
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