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2009-10-14 , 15:02
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Originally Posted by nymajoak View Post
How do you guys pronounce daemon? It seems logical Maemo should be pronounced analogously?

I've always said "day-mon", with "mon" rhyming with John. Skipping the "n" and comparing with the above Simpson's example, I would pronounce Maemo "May Moe". Assuming "my Moe" is right, I would pronounce daemon "die-mon" which seems weird to me but might be right..

Where does the name Maemo come from, anyway?
See:
http://test.maemo.org/faq/faq.html#general

It's a random thing, but apparently it does mean something (standard) in one language...

BTW, I think I've always said May-mo. Beats my-mo anyway.
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Originally Posted by nymajoak View Post

Where does the name Maemo come from, anyway?

Originally Posted by jesuscliment View Post
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.


So there.
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2009-10-14 , 15:15
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#73
Originally Posted by nymajoak View Post
How do you guys pronounce daemon? It seems logical Maemo should be pronounced analogously?

I've always said "day-mon", with "mon" rhyming with John. Skipping the "n" and comparing with the above Simpson's example, I would pronounce Maemo "May Moe". Assuming "my Moe" is right, I would pronounce daemon "die-mon" which seems weird to me but might be right..

Where does the name Maemo come from, anyway?
Isn't daemon just the US spelling of demon (UK) ? So isn't it just pronounced dee-mon, that's how I've heard other UK linux admins pronounce it.

Edit - here: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-b...001.wav=daemon
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Here's the Finnish-swedish way of pronouncing Maemo.
 

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I'm fine with anything, unless someone starts calling it mee-maw (mima) I don't want to use a grandma OS OK, may-emo might also be a bit annoying as well though I'm totally fine with maam-o.
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Originally Posted by JayOnThaBeat View Post
No way!

Here in the U.S. of A, we only subtract letters from words, like color and humor.


More letters.... ha!
hehe can't be a US/UK thing then.

What about skillful (US) and skilful (UK) :-) Also fulfill/fulfil, enrollment/enrolment.
 
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Maybe we should have a contest for the pronunciation like we did for the logo?
 
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Maybe we should have a contest for the pronunciation like we did for the logo?
No. Jesus proclaimed the pronunciation. Then, access uploaded an ogg of it being pronounced. And he saw that it was good.
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I was a "May Moh"-er until the summit. The consensus at the summit was pretty clear though for My-Moh. I kinda like it now that I am used to it, its like "My Mobile".
 

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I was a "May Moh"-er until the summit. The consensus at the summit was pretty clear though for My-Moh. I kinda like it now that I am used to it, its like "My Mobile".
I would agree. My-moh does imply (in English) a personal OS focused on mobility.

Plus, for the southern Europeans at least, it is the proper Latin pronunciation with ae pronounced as a long I.
 

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