[Mageia-discuss] origin of the name "mageia"?

Tue Sep 21 23:16:07 CEST 2010

Le 2010-09-21 14:37, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
+> 2010/9/21 Maurice Batey<maurice at bcs.org.uk>:
+>>
+>> Well, different languages have different ways of saying things, so
+>> does it really matter?
+>>    "Paris" in the UK sounds different from 'Paris' in  France.
+>> Vive la difference....
+>   Well, I try to pronounce names in foreign languages as the people
+> there do it because they gave the names in their language and the
+> names get their meaning only in that language. I hate being called by
+> my name with English prononciation because it is not an English name.
+> Same I do with English names, what would you say if I pronounced some
+> English or American city name with German prononciation? Nice example
+> is Worcester. In German that would be _War_ (like the word 'war") and
+> _cester_ like the part "Chester" in Chesterfield. Together:
+> "War-chester" :)
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+Maybe we could just accept the fact that it could be pronounced 
+differently, adopt the official Mageia pronunciation edict on the Wiki 
+and just go with it? It obviously reminds most of us of the "Linux" 
+pronunciation debate ... which is still left unresolved but, quite 
+frankly, inconsequential.
+
+Marc
+
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