On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:41:56AM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 01:38 -0500, Aaron M Dulles-Coelho wrote: > > As a linguist, I must ask about the phonetic transcription of /debian/ > > found at the end of http://www.debian.org/intro/about. The second > > phoneme indicated signals to me an 'e' sound made such as in made, fade, > > raid, jade, etc. However the 'e' sound in Debra sounds to me as fred, > > dead, red, instead (second syllable), bed. > > > > Is Ian Murdock or his wife of a region where Debra would be pronounced > > as in the first set of words, or in the second? > > As a non-native english speaker, I'm confused. I can't see how words
Since I'm a non-native english speaker as well I cannot fix it. > like "made", "fade" or "raid" would include an "e" sound. Maybe I'm > misunderstanding where the "e" sound is or what it sounds like in these > cases. To me, the letter e at the end of "made" is silent. I'm thinking > the other alternative is that the "e" sound in these words refer to the > letters a or ai. (mAde, fAde, rAId) Correct, he refers to the second character of dEbian. (Since the German E is pronounced similar to A in mAde, fAde, I was not confused.) > And I always thought people had problems with debIAN (deb-ii-n or > deb-ai-n)... :) I found the following mail in my queue which is still not processed: =========================================================================== From: Andrew Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Typo Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:11:20 +0800 (CST) To: "Garvey, Patrick D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: debian-doc@lists.debian.org On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Garvey, Patrick D wrote: > On http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-detailed.en.html > In "4.5.2 October 2000: Implementation of Package Pools" > packackge Jens: (this typo is now fixed) And I also found the 1.2 Pronouncing Debian: The official pronounciation of Debian is 'deb ee n'. The name comes from the names of the creator of Debian, Ian Murdock, and his wife, Debra. It's different on http://www.debian.org/intro/about, please look the bottom of the page: Since many people have asked, Debian is pronounced /'[EMAIL PROTECTED]/. It comes from the names of the creator of Debian, Ian Murdock, and his wife, Debra. =========================================================================== Hint: CVS Log contains: Applied patch from Alexander Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, adding IPA annotation to the pronounciation guide. $ cvs diff -r 1.55 -r 1.56 english/intro/about.wml Index: english/intro/about.wml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/intro/about.wml,v retrieving revision 1.55 retrieving revision 1.56 diff -u -r1.55 -r1.56 --- english/intro/about.wml 27 May 2003 22:47:42 -0000 1.55 +++ english/intro/about.wml 13 Apr 2004 15:34:25 -0000 1.56 @@ -227,5 +227,6 @@ community of developers and users. See <A HREF="$(DOC)/manuals/project-history/">the detailed history</A>. -<P>Since many people have asked, Debian is pronounced 'deb ee n'. It comes -from the names of the creator of Debian, Ian Murdock, and his wife, Debra. +<P>Since many people have asked, Debian is pronounced /ˈde.bi.ən/. It +comes from the names of the creator of Debian, Ian Murdock, and his wife, +Debra. Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
