On 11/19/05, Sašo Kiselkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Next up: *switches keyboard languages* Étoilé. I'm french, and that > > > may technically be a word, but somehow I doubt that the people who > > > this is aimed towards are all french. How is this pronounced in > > > english? > > > > Just the same as it is in French. :) > > Uh, oh, I must admit I, on the other hand, have absolutely no clue about how > it's prononounced correctly. Am I supposed to read the E's long because of the > accents? Am I supposed to read the trailing 'e' or just let the word end at > 'l'? And should I also join the "i" with the following letter and read the "l" > much softer than I would in English? I'm quite puzzled by that name.
Well, if you check etoile's mailing list archives, you'll see that we wanted to change for another name, more "international". But then the majority in the project preferred to keep Etoile (personally, I didn't care, and was probably more on the side of changing name), partly because it sounded french, and partly because it sounded original... so... why not :) -- after all, you want something that sounds original. You can write it Etoile, or Étoilé, it doesn't matter. The pronounciation in french should be close to eh-twal-eh ... -- Nicolas Roard "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke
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