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dgpretzel2 2006-09-05 02:47
Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
How does one pronounce "Maemo"?

Thank you.

DG

thoughtfix 2006-09-05 05:38
MAY mow? That is my guess.

neiljerram 2006-09-05 06:50
Quote:
Originally Posted by thoughtfix
MAY mow? That is my guess.
I've always thought "MY mow". I've no authority for that though.

If we're trying to establish what the inventors of the name had in mind, I guess it depends how "ae" is pronounced in Finnish.

- Neil

count zero 2006-09-05 06:55
because ae stands for the german letter ä, i pronounce it mämo :D

memo would be an englisch word which sounds similar.

mpancorbo 2006-09-05 10:02
Quote:
Originally Posted by dgpretzel2
How does one pronounce "Maemo"?
Do the easy fonetic way: ma-e-mo ("ma" like "madam", "e" like "bed", "mo" like "modify"), accent on "e" or in "ma", as you want (I prefer on "e").

is it so difficult to guess !? :)

BanditRider 2006-09-05 10:49
I'm with Thoughtfix,

MAY mow

Luna 2006-09-05 13:04
I pronounce it "maemo" So just like anything else new in technology the first time you actually say it in public to someone that has really heard the correct pronunciation, you sound like a goof.

gnuite 2006-09-05 16:03
I've always pronounced it in the same way that it would be pronounced in Spanish: mah-EH-mow. That's probably wrong, but it's too late for me to try to change now. :)

LukeWorm 2006-09-05 16:12
Quote:
Originally Posted by neiljerram
If we're trying to establish what the inventors of the name had in mind, I guess it depends how "ae" is pronounced in Finnish.
- Neil
Finnish is pronounced as it's written with the stress on the first syllable. The average Finn would pronounce Maemo as the Spanish mentioned earlier, MAH-eh-mo.
However, I don't think the origin of this name is Finnish.

Karel Jansens 2006-09-05 17:16
I usually pronounce it "Oh wow!".

dgpretzel2 2006-09-05 17:57
:)


But, does anyone really know?


DG

mpancorbo 2006-09-05 19:20
Quote:
Originally Posted by dgpretzel2
:)
But, does anyone really know?
DG
Remember that "maemo" is invented word.

For Spanish does not make sense asking for pronunciation of invented word, whenever it contains known symbols: all words are pronounced by regular rules. That's the case.

Your question does not make sense for me. I apply the rules. Simple.

Paul Webster 2006-09-05 22:03
Invented by a password generation tool - and I presume this substring selected because it appeared to be unique, not a swear word and happened to look a bit like 'memo'.
My guess is that it does not have a 'correct' pronunciation . however, was it said at the launch of the Google Talk tie-up ... the video was available on-line.

Hedgecore 2006-09-05 23:23
I say "May moe"... and I could swear they pronounced it as such on that 2006 webcast thoughtfix re-encoded and posted.

stevenf 2006-09-05 23:42
Too funny... I'd always assumed MEE-mo, based on the old English combined "ae" symbol (what's that thing called?) which is pronounced as a long E, like in "Encyclopaedia".

penguinbait 2006-09-06 01:39
MAY MO! MAY MO!, like PIZZA PIZZA or bong bong
 
:eek: MAY MOE!!!!
:eek: MAY MOE!!!!
:eek: MAY MOE!!!!
:eek: MAY MOE!!!!
:eek: MAY MOE!!!!
:eek: MAY MOE!!!!

dgpretzel2 2006-09-06 05:26
Wow.

I can see this forum is an exciting place, full of folks (including me) with way too much time on their hands! :)

dgpretzel2 2006-09-06 05:35
Trolling on my own thread...
 
Quote:
"ae" symbol (what's that thing called?) which is pronounced as a long E, like in "Encyclopaedia".
On the other hand :D , many folks pronounce "daemon" as "day-mun", so... "May Mow"

DG

bac522 2006-09-06 13:12
http://corvette.spectraaccess.net/pics/may.jpg http://corvette.spectraaccess.net/pics/moe.jpg

cagilaba 2006-09-07 20:48
I pronounce it MY-mo [in my head].

dgpretzel2 2006-09-07 22:04
For no reason I can think of, that was my very first impression/thought, too.

DG

Karel Jansens 2006-09-08 08:52
For those who really need insane amounts of extra power :D , I know of one product that does work:

BatteryGeek are manufacturers of all linds of external battery packs, and the one they offer for the Sony PSP does work for the Nokia 770.

Y'all have to googgel them up by yourselves, 'cuz I lost the urrel.

aflegg 2006-09-10 22:03
Quote:
Originally Posted by cagilaba
I pronounce it MY-mo [in my head].
I thought I did, but saying it out loud (I think for the first time ever, and only to myself) it came out as "May-Moe".

Oh well, shows I'll even argue with myself.

dgpretzel2 2006-09-11 01:36
I guess it's one of those questions that has not real answer. As mentioned previously, there is the "encyclopaedia" example for a long E. The condos we live in are named "Saebroc", pronounced Say-brahk. And then there is the long I, as well as many other non-English possibilities.

In the absence of any knowledge of original intentions, if there are any, I guess it will just have to be debated along with the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin.

:)

DG

jesuscliment 2009-05-13 23:16
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Hi all.

This might come a bit too late, but i can tell you how to pronunce "maemo". I came up with the name, so...

The origin is as stated: pwgen (a password generator utility which you can set to give you all character passwords) gave me an option, "maimo". I used 5 characters names for my machines, so i also restricted it to that. But I did not like the "i" so I changed it for an "e".

Maemo was the name of my desktop, and little by little it gathered importance in the project, as i made it the canonical repository for everybody involved. And became THE server. And the project. And the SDK. And the OS.

So now that the origin is clear, and me being Spanish and Finnish being pronounced almost exactly as Spanish...

"mah-Eh-mo"

mah as the beginning of my
eh as the "e" in "pet"
mo as in Monica, but only pronouncing the M and the O.

Hope you like it.

jaem 2009-05-14 00:25
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jesuscliment (Post 287259)
Hi all.
So now that the origin is clear, and me being Spanish and Finnish being pronounced almost exactly as Spanish...
"mah-Eh-mo"
mah as the beginning of my
eh as the "e" in "pet"
mo as in Monica, but only pronouncing the M and the O.
Hope you like it.
You've just ruined my life... *sob*. No, but seriously, that's nice to know, but I'll probably just keep calling it May-Mo, because the correct way seems more awkward for me - and I'm young and set in my ways. Thanks for letting us know the truth, though. :P

Thesandlord 2009-05-14 00:28
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Dude, make a recording of you saying it. Then it will make more sense.

bac522 2009-05-14 00:45
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Holy "old old post" revivals batman

qole 2009-05-14 23:49
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Yeah, but it was revived by the guy who came up with the word! How cool is that?

And anyway, what did you expect Jesus to do? Start a new thread? No. He had to resurrect this thread.

penguinbait 2009-05-15 00:55
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Thesandlord (Post 287274)
Dude, make a recording of you saying it. Then it will make more sense.
my name is jesuscliment and pronounce maemo, maemo!

I will be waiting to listen to this???? :D:D:D

YoDude 2009-05-15 01:40
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jesuscliment (Post 287259)
Hi all.

This might come a bit too late, but i can tell you how to pronunce "maemo". I came up with the name, so...

The origin is as stated: pwgen (a password generator utility which you can set to give you all character passwords) gave me an option, "maimo". I used 5 characters names for my machines, so i also restricted it to that. But I did not like the "i" so I changed it for an "e".

Maemo was the name of my desktop, and little by little it gathered importance in the project, as i made it the canonical repository for everybody involved. And became THE server. And the project. And the SDK. And the OS.

So now that the origin is clear, and me being Spanish and Finnish being pronounced almost exactly as Spanish...

"mah-Eh-mo"

mah as the beginning of my
eh as the "e" in "pet"
mo as in Monica, but only pronouncing the M and the O.

Hope you like it.
Then it's three syllables instead of two...

That's interesting. So that must have been your machine with the yellow maemo label. A picture of it was posted not long ago either here or in a blog, I'm not sure which.

Thank you JC. :)

jaem 2009-05-15 05:07
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by qole (Post 287681)
And anyway, what did you expect Jesus to do? Start a new thread? No. He had to resurrect this thread.
. . .

I think you're thinking of that other guy, from a while back... ;) The joke was amusing and inevitable, at any rate. +1 Internet to Qole!

qgil 2009-05-15 05:51
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by YoDude (Post 287693)
Then it's three syllables instead of two...
Yes, I wanted to say that in another thread yesterday but I didn't want to ruin timsamoff's haiku.

Quote:
That's interesting. So that must have been your machine with the yellow maemo label. A picture of it was posted not long ago either here or in a blog, I'm not sure which.
Stefano, our current IT Jesus.

http://stezz.blogspot.com/2009/05/re...rst-maemo.html
http://stezz.blogspot.com/2008/10/wh...ming-from.html

If you want to hear how the majority of the Maemo SW team pronounces "Maemo" go to the audio file linked in this blog entry. I'm not Jesus but at least we are native speakers of the same languages, so I'm probably close to the original.

So what, "Maemo" is pronnounced with variations in several local adaptations. That's fine. Happens to all global brands. For instance in Spain only posh arrogant people would pronnounce "Nike" as it is pronnounced in the company headquarters ('naikí'). Everybody says "Nike" as "Mike" (something that actually makes sense if you think it twice). This doesn't seem a burden for them to sell a lot.

kanishou 2009-05-15 10:08
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
I only ever hear people pronounce it "my-moh", but I guess that "mah-eh-moh" comes very close to that when spoken quickly.

Just don't pronounce it the German way (mämo). I earned some blank stares for that on the summit, until somebody "translated". :)

daperl 2009-05-15 11:09
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by qgil (Post 287725)
For instance in Spain only posh arrogant people would pronnounce "Nike" as it is pronnounced in the company headquarters ('naikí'). Everybody says "Nike" as "Mike" (something that actually makes sense if you think it twice). This doesn't seem a burden for them to sell a lot.
How do posh, arrogant Greeks pronounce it? I think Porsche is a better example.

attila77 2009-05-15 12:00
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Ah, the good old name debate. Can get funny though, like with BIC. Bic is originally written as Bich (in french, after the founder's name, so that would make it 'bish' IINM). However, when moving outside of France, they were afraid people would pronounce it 'b-i-t-c-h', so they shortened it. At least that's what the legend says.

But this happens all the time. Boy would someone selling Ondo phones get surprised in Hungary :) And, if I'm at phones, from what I hear Moko (as in OpenMoko) is not exactly a dinner topic in Spain, either.

qgil 2009-05-15 12:03
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by daperl (Post 287785)
How do posh, arrogant Greeks pronounce it?
Not /ˈnaɪki/ but [níːkɛː], which oddly enough is just how you would say it in Spanish if you wouldn't think that the word should be pronnounced as in English. But try to say [níːkɛː] in Spain and people will laugh at your face for ignorant. Weird globalization.

krisse 2009-05-15 12:39
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by attila77 (Post 287801)
Ah, the good old name debate. Can get funny though, like with BIC. Bic is originally written as Bich (in french, after the founder's name, so that would make it 'bish' IINM). However, when moving outside of France, they were afraid people would pronounce it 'b-i-t-c-h', so they shortened it. At least that's what the legend says.

But this happens all the time. Boy would someone selling Ondo phones get surprised in Hungary :) And, if I'm at phones, from what I hear Moko (as in OpenMoko) is not exactly a dinner topic in Spain, either.
Oh there are millions of these examples... I can't print all of them here but there are various Finnish products which sound very rude if you say them in English (for example a crisp bread named after the Finnish word for "fitness", look it up).

Sometimes it goes the other way too, there's an Indian car company called Reva:

http://www.revaindia.com/

...there is NO WAY they would EVER dare to market anything under that name in Finland. It will not happen.

I guarantee you any Finns who visit that website for the first time will laugh very very hard, especially at phrases like "Make your own reva" and questions in the FAQ like "How green is the reva?", "What is the seating capacity of the reva?", "How safe is the reva?", "Are reva spare parts available?", "How frequently do I need to service my reva?" etc. In fact I have tears streaming down my face as I write this. :-)

daperl 2009-05-15 12:48
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by qgil (Post 287802)
... in Spain and people will laugh at your face for ignorant. Weird globalization.
Yes, weird. I live in the U.S. near the Mexico border, and regardless of your first language or your station, after a few moments of confusion, you might also get laughed at if you pronounced Nike as in Mike. But not so if it's plural.

timsamoff 2009-05-15 13:38
Re: Pronounce "Maemo"?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by qgil (Post 287725)
Yes, I wanted to say that in another thread yesterday but I didn't want to ruin timsamoff's haiku.
I wondered about that myself and came to the conclusion that "Fremantle" would work better that "Maemo 5" anyway (it's more "natural" and all)... I'll go change it.

Tim


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