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Depends on the language, it's very easy to pronounce in Spanish
by luibelgo 10y ago
Depends on the language, it's very easy to pronounce in Spanish
- ekianjo 10y agoIn French too.
- Doctor_Fegg 10y agoBut not the same way! I've never known whether the Spanish or French version is the canonical pronunciation for LibreOffice.
- davidgerard 10y agoIn English I just say Lieber-Office, as in Beiber-Office. I have had zero people confused at this pronunciation in the last six years. (edited to clarify)
- evacchi 10y agoso, neither? Edit to reflect parent: I do think that's probably easier to pronounce for English-speaking people than both French and Spanish
- babayega2 10y agoBut libre mean "free" in French whereas there is no such word in English. Why would it not be more easier for us French speaking peoples?
- ekianjo 10y ago? Libre is a french word in the first place. How is that hard to pronounce ?
- evacchi 10y agoIMO it's unintuitive how to pronounce it to most non-French-speaking people.
- aoloe 10y agoIMO only because you think that there must be one single way to pronounce it. Who cares if somebody says laibr, laiber, leeber, ... Get over it and write a song like the one with the tomatoes... Or are you one of the braves that are pushing Nike to change their name, because nobody can figure out that it should pronounced [nǐːkɛː]?
- 1wd 10y agoThat would be easy to pronounce in German, but from the spelling it would never occur to a German that this is the correct pronunciation. Fun sidenote: Since "Lieber" is German for "Dear" (as in "Dear Office, I am writing this letter to you ...") it would be quite confusing. (Also it would sound grammatically wrong, since "Lieber" is masculine, but Office is not.) Alternatively "lieber" also means "preferably", so with that interpretation you would sound like saying "preferably Office". Oops.
- sandGorgon 10y agoAsia is the problem. FWIW - its the largest market for open source software and the market that needs it more than any other market. I posted another comment on this thread - but in India, I have had ZERO success with getting people to know what I said ("libby office")
- NoGravitas 10y agoI always use the Spanish pronunciation. Though this may be influenced by the fact that I'm a USAmerican and Spanish is my second language.
- aninhumer 10y agoI tend to use the Spanish, because I find the French more awkward to combine with "Office".