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    <B>John Keller</B> 
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<PRE>On 09/21/2010 01:34 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
&gt;<i> 2010/9/21 Tux99 &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">tux99-mga at uridium.org</A>&gt;:
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</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I vote for 'mixer', easy to remember, easy to pronounce, easy to write.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Hmm, &quot;mixer&quot; like in alsamixer ?
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Well, more like &quot;mixer&quot; as in the kitchen appliance. But I'm definitely
aware of &quot;mixer&quot; as in &quot;concrete mixer&quot;, &quot;audio mixing board&quot; (predating
alsamixer by decades ;-) ), etc.

&gt;&gt;<i> Cauldron is too hard to promounce
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> You kidding? It is English, it has only 2 syllables, what is the
</I>&gt;<i> difficulty there?
</I>&gt;<i> You know how to pronounce &quot;Paul&quot;? Now replace the &quot;P&quot; with a &quot;C&quot; and
</I>&gt;<i> add &quot;dron&quot; which is pronounced it as it is spelled.
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I think it's important to remember users in non-Latin languages. I
almost sent my message with a note about the &quot;aul&quot; sound maybe
complicating things (&quot;cowdrun?&quot; &quot;no, CAAAULLL-dron&quot; &quot;oh, of course,
calldrone!&quot;). But nonetheless, I like it.

&gt;<i> I wonder what is the difference between cooker and cauldron,
</I>&gt;<i> pronociation-wise I mean.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> C'mon, we are all not illiterate monkeys.
</I>
I'm sure you're excited about this launch, but I think that's an
inflammatory statement. You don't have to be illiterate or a monkey to
have problems with language, just inexperienced in foreign languages
and/or English.

And as a native English speaker, I can attest to the fact that yes, in
the technical world, people tend to have, er, interesting ideas about
spelling - whether it's intentional or not. And while the international
technical language may be English, names bring along with them a lot of
cultural and orthographic baggage.

- John
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