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AFAIK DALL-E is pronounced as Dalí, as in Salvador Dalí. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD

chatmasta 4y ago
I figured it was a reference to the Dalai Lama (which doesn't invalidate your comment, since that's also pronounced like Dalí). LLM -> Llama -> Dalai Lama
- 4ndrewl 4y ago
  I thought "Dalai" pronounced "Dall Eye" rhymes with "Shall I" "Dali" pronounced "Dahl eee" rhymes with "Carly"
  - chatmasta 4y ago
    Interesting. According to Google, it's a British ("Da-lie") vs. American ("Da-lee") difference.
  - tetraca 4y ago
    This is all very weird to me because I've always pronounced Dalai as "Dah-lay".
- sillysaurusx 4y ago
  Hmm. Is Salvador Dalí pronounced differently than Dolly or Dalai? The wikipedia page has "dah-lee" as the phonetic, and https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+salvador+dali https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+salvador+dali sounds the same as https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+dalai+lama https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+dalai+lama. So it seems like all three are identical.
  - ToValueFunfetti 4y ago
    The emphasis in Dalí is on the second syllable, which is at least different from Dolly. I've always pronounced Dalai Lama the same as I would Dolly Lama, but Cambridge dictionary is saying it should be Da-lay in both US and UK pronunciations. Tangentially, it seems like most of the results for both searches were autogenerated with TTS programs. I wonder if our pronunciations will shift towards TTS mistakes over time. Probably not, these videos only have a few thousand views, but neat if true.
  - mejutoco 4y ago
    Dalí has the stress on the last syllable, hence the accent (but Dall-e probably not). In my native language Dalai is pronounced "Da-lie", like another comment says above. TIL Dolly is pronounced so similarly. I thought the Do sounded like Doberman, but apparently not. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolly https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolly
- rburhum 4y ago
  Dalí has an accent at the end, which has the emphasis in the last letter. Dalai does not. They sound very different. “dah-lee” vs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JhFbvuKn45w https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JhFbvuKn45w
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bilekas 4y ago
Handy also to think off WALL-E. At least that where my assumption came from.
cosmojg 4y ago
It's quite clearly a reference to WALL-E the environmentally conscious robot, which is pronounced as you'd expect. I like to think of it as DALL-E the surrealist robot painter.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  I totally failed to make that connection! Was that the intended reference? What's the link to WALL-E?
  - dcre 4y ago
    WALL-E is a robot.
- mejutoco 4y ago
  That is exactly my interpretation. Both wall-e and Dalí. I think we are in agreement.
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chatmasta 4y ago

I figured it was a reference to the Dalai Lama (which doesn't invalidate your comment, since that's also pronounced like Dalí). LLM -> Llama -> Dalai Lama

4ndrewl 4y ago
I thought "Dalai" pronounced "Dall Eye" rhymes with "Shall I" "Dali" pronounced "Dahl eee" rhymes with "Carly"
- chatmasta 4y ago
  Interesting. According to Google, it's a British ("Da-lie") vs. American ("Da-lee") difference.
- tetraca 4y ago
  This is all very weird to me because I've always pronounced Dalai as "Dah-lay".
sillysaurusx 4y ago
Hmm. Is Salvador Dalí pronounced differently than Dolly or Dalai? The wikipedia page has "dah-lee" as the phonetic, and https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+salvador+dali https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+salvador+dali sounds the same as https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+dalai+lama https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+dalai+lama. So it seems like all three are identical.
- ToValueFunfetti 4y ago
  The emphasis in Dalí is on the second syllable, which is at least different from Dolly. I've always pronounced Dalai Lama the same as I would Dolly Lama, but Cambridge dictionary is saying it should be Da-lay in both US and UK pronunciations. Tangentially, it seems like most of the results for both searches were autogenerated with TTS programs. I wonder if our pronunciations will shift towards TTS mistakes over time. Probably not, these videos only have a few thousand views, but neat if true.
- mejutoco 4y ago
  Dalí has the stress on the last syllable, hence the accent (but Dall-e probably not). In my native language Dalai is pronounced "Da-lie", like another comment says above. TIL Dolly is pronounced so similarly. I thought the Do sounded like Doberman, but apparently not. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolly https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dolly
rburhum 4y ago
Dalí has an accent at the end, which has the emphasis in the last letter. Dalai does not. They sound very different. “dah-lee” vs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JhFbvuKn45w https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JhFbvuKn45w

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bilekas 4y ago

Handy also to think off WALL-E. At least that where my assumption came from.

cosmojg 4y ago

It's quite clearly a reference to WALL-E the environmentally conscious robot, which is pronounced as you'd expect. I like to think of it as DALL-E the surrealist robot painter.

JohnFen 4y ago
I totally failed to make that connection! Was that the intended reference? What's the link to WALL-E?
- dcre 4y ago
  WALL-E is a robot.
mejutoco 4y ago
That is exactly my interpretation. Both wall-e and Dalí. I think we are in agreement.

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