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Some idle words from a passer-by: It would have been good if this project had a pronounceable name. "To Google" has entered the English lexicon as a verb, but
by alexdowad 5y ago
Some idle words from a passer-by: It would have been good if this project had a pronounceable name.
"To Google" has entered the English lexicon as a verb, but I don't think anybody will ever say they "mwmbled" something.
- daoudc 5y agoIt's pronounced "mumble". I live in Mumbles, which is spelt Mwmbwls in Welsh.
- yetanother-1 5y agoNice, but still not very intuitive nor common for the grand public.
- danpalmer 5y agoSpelling it “mumble” wouldn’t be accurately pronounceable for most of the world, and billions couldn’t even read the letters. I get your point but I think we should normalise things that don’t come completely naturally for English speakers.
- jesprenj 5y agoMumble is already a group talk protocol. http://mumble.info http://mumble.info
- scottmcdot 5y agoIf it took off we all might start swapping e with w as a nod to our preferred search engine.
- wodenokoto 5y agoIn the early web 2, it was very in for things to be spelled unpronounceably. For the life of me I can only remember Twittr, but I wanna say Spotify also had an unreadable name in the early days.
- thenthenthen 5y agoFlickr
- marginalia_nu 5y agodel.ico.us
- KnobbleMcKnees 5y agoTumblr