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#19
Originally Posted by Bec View Post
The "ae" wtitten ∞ "infinity like" is smooth enough in my opinion. If there's to be a mascot PLEASE don't let it be some annoying animal (penguin, pigeon, etc)

But btw, for all you non-latin language speakers out there:

"ae" is pronounced "e", the latin way like in the following words:
"buena", "metro", "metronome", message" - the reason I say this is because most Nokian (made by nokia with people from Nokia) did not spell this right.
I agree with the no annoying animal part. I think a cool logo is enough.

Most Nokians probably pronounced it just right. Nokia is from Finland where people speak Finnish in which ae is not pronounced in the latin way. The person who came up with the name in the first place is Spanish, and the pronounciation in Spanish is very similar to the Finnish one. More about this here.
 

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