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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
by 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 agoWait, it's not leeb-er?
- scj 7mo agoThe "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.