> On Feb 13, 2022, at 22:04, someone (?) wrote: > > The YouTube video that was linked was hilarious... though that guy's > system for pronouncing punctuation doesn't seem very practical... > > Though, now that the subject has been raised, I'm noticing quite a few > discrepencies in how some punctuation is spoken by Orca versus SBL and > how often it isn't the monosyllabic way*carat versus circumflex at > versus at sign, number versus hash, vertical bar versus v-bar... > Making as many punctuation marks monosyllabic as possible would be > nice.
FYI, the "number versus hash" problem is much worse than you might think. It's often called a "pound sign" in the US, because 5# is read as "five pounds". However, "pound sign" means something entirely different in the UK, where it refers to a currency symbol. IIRC, the technical name for "#" is "octothorpe", but I doubt that anyone would want their computer to announce it in that fashion :-). - Rich Morin _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
