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Yes, that is one of the major offenders. It is very awkward to pronounce in many languages.

piekvorst 7mo ago
I speak two languages (English and Russian) and have never found their name to be awkward. This is the first time, actually, that I've seen somebody say they don't like their name.
- notachatbot123 7mo ago
  A good indicator is that the Wikipedia page even has pronounciation information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice What other major software has that?
  - bloak 7mo ago
    > What other major software has that? Linux? EDIT: Also Qt, MySQL, SQLite, GIMP (rather unnecessarily), ...
  - mock-possum 7mo ago
    Somewhat disappointingly, it’s just pronounced exactly the way it’s spelled: LEE-bruh-OFF-iss Ref: https://youtu.be/YHBve8v13VY?si=Bql2vH6C4goZN_kX https://youtu.be/YHBve8v13VY?si=Bql2vH6C4goZN_kX From your comment somehow I was expecting something a bit more exotic
    - socalgal2 7mo ago
      TIL it's 'bruh'. Until today I thought it was 'bray'
desdenova 7mo ago
Curious on what languages have a hard time saying Libre. Every latin-derived language (which are most of the western languages) can pronounce it naturally, and even English speakers can approximate it well enough to be understood (even though they're incapable of pronouncing the non-retroflex `r`).
- zimpenfish 7mo ago
  > even English speakers can approximate it well enough to be understood I'd go for "LEE-broffis" which I don't think is all that hideously far away?
  - tech_hutch 7mo ago
    Wait, it's not leeb-er?
    - scj 7mo ago
      The "bre" in "libre" is pronounced similarly to "zebra". Kinda. It'll get you in the ballpark, which is good enough for an Anglo. "This Hour has 22 Minutes" had a great sketch where both a Francophone (Gavin Crawford impersonating Chantal Hebert) and an Anglo (I forget who) were stumbling over proper nouns from the opposite language. The joke was that both were trying too hard to pronounce things "properly". It came off as inauthentic and awkward.

I speak two languages (English and Russian) and have never found their name to be awkward. This is the first time, actually, that I've seen somebody say they don't like their name.

notachatbot123 7mo ago
A good indicator is that the Wikipedia page even has pronounciation information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice What other major software has that?
- bloak 7mo ago
  > What other major software has that? Linux? EDIT: Also Qt, MySQL, SQLite, GIMP (rather unnecessarily), ...
- mock-possum 7mo ago
  Somewhat disappointingly, it’s just pronounced exactly the way it’s spelled: LEE-bruh-OFF-iss Ref: https://youtu.be/YHBve8v13VY?si=Bql2vH6C4goZN_kX https://youtu.be/YHBve8v13VY?si=Bql2vH6C4goZN_kX From your comment somehow I was expecting something a bit more exotic
  - socalgal2 7mo ago
    TIL it's 'bruh'. Until today I thought it was 'bray'

desdenova 7mo ago

Curious on what languages have a hard time saying Libre. Every latin-derived language (which are most of the western languages) can pronounce it naturally, and even English speakers can approximate it well enough to be understood (even though they're incapable of pronouncing the non-retroflex `r`).

zimpenfish 7mo ago
> even English speakers can approximate it well enough to be understood I'd go for "LEE-broffis" which I don't think is all that hideously far away?
- tech_hutch 7mo ago
  Wait, it's not leeb-er?
  - scj 7mo ago
    The "bre" in "libre" is pronounced similarly to "zebra". Kinda. It'll get you in the ballpark, which is good enough for an Anglo. "This Hour has 22 Minutes" had a great sketch where both a Francophone (Gavin Crawford impersonating Chantal Hebert) and an Anglo (I forget who) were stumbling over proper nouns from the opposite language. The joke was that both were trying too hard to pronounce things "properly". It came off as inauthentic and awkward.