Pronounce "Maemo"?

[javispedro]

Originally Posted by jesuscliment

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

So I've been pronouncing it right the whole time!

[lma]

Originally Posted by daperl

How do posh, arrogant Greeks pronounce it?

Actually the rhymes-with-mike pronunciation is the most common amongst arrogant Greeks (I wouldn't know about the posh part though ;-) ).

We also pronounce maemo pretty much the way Jesus intended. More on-topic, does anyone know the correct IPA spelling of that? The wikipedia entry needs correcting methinks.

[Bobbe]

Wikipedia does need correction indeed, then. First they included primary and secondary stress, which 'maemo' doesn't have, regardless of being two or there-syllabled.

According to Jesus (love saying that) it would be pronounced /ma'ɛ:məʊ/

I'm assuming /ma/ and not /maɪ/ because he said it's like 'the beginning' of my, not like my itself.

It does sound strange in my head though. It always sounded like /ma'i:məʊ/ or a nasalized /ma'æ:məʊ/ (a nasalized æ would be the sound in 'ant' /æ:nt/) to me, no matter how hard I try to say /ma'ɛ:məʊ/. Anyway, it's a proper name, and it should be pronounced properly.

And thanks again to Jesus for the clarification!

Edit: it might also be /ma'ɛ:mo/, not /ma'ɛ:məʊ/, depending on how he meant 'Monica' to be pronounced.

Okay, I'm bugged by this lol

[qgil]

Originally Posted by Bobbe

it might also be /ma'ɛ:mo/

That is.

If you don't have enough hearing how I pronounce it (Latin variant style, like Jesus) you can also hear the Finnish variant (basically the same, you need to be acute to distinguish) from no less than Ari Jaaksi at http://flors.wordpress.com/2008/03/1...he-nokia-plan/ (it takes a while until he says 'Maemo', sorry but too lazy to find the exact time now).

[Bobbe]

Originally Posted by qgil

If you don't have enough hearing how I pronounce it(Latin variant style, like Jesus)

Sorry, it's not a hearing issue. I didn't hear you yet actually. Will do so shortly though =)

It will be interesting to see how this is going to play out. Maemo 5 will probably bring a lot more people to be interested in the platform than it already does (if the rumors about the RX-51 confirm, I guess) and several different pronunciations will come out.Use always beats standard over time. Let's see if people will try to pronounce like he pronounces it in the keynote.

In that sense, 'correcting' the Wikipedia entry would play a huge role on that, the way I see it.

Who can edit the entry?

[mikkov]

Originally Posted by Bobbe

Who can edit the entry?

Well it's Wikipedia, so anybody who's smarter than fish. So I did it.

[GeneralAntilles]

Originally Posted by Bobbe

Who can edit the entry?

Anybody, it's Wikipedia. . . .

[Bobbe]

I know about it. The problem was that when I clicked edit all the other links it let me, except for the opening. Some problem with my box, probably, as I see somebody has already edited it =)

(My question must have sounded incredibly stupid back there )

[GeneralAntilles]

Originally Posted by Bobbe

I know about it. The problem was that when I clicked edit all the other links it let me, except for the opening.

The intro paragraph is not under a section, so you'll need to click the Edit button at the top of the page.

[Bobbe]

Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles

The intro paragraph is not under a section, so you'll need to click the Edit button at the top of the page.

Which I did, and that was I meant with 'couldn't edit' before. I couldn't open that 'Edit this article' page.

Anyways, I see now that what confused me with the phonetic transcription there was the same thing that has always confused me with 'man' and 'men'
I heard qgil's address and basically he pronounces Maemo the way I do =)

Thanks to everybody for all the help!