<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">If pronounciation was an irritant they would have saved a lot of the hand-wringing by just putting an acute accent on the "e", as in, "MATÉ". <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">Yes, I know it was invented in Argentina where the accent isn't used. But if creators were at all concerned about global pronunciation and knowing there is already a popular use of the spelling in English ... the compromise would have helped.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">Since language prefers efficiency, the one-syllable version will not go away naturally -- the creators need to care enough to do something about it.
Consider how most people (and <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/linux">even dictionaries</a>) pronounce Linux as "Linnicks" even though Linus himself clearly wanted "Leenuks" in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c39QPDTDdXU">a vary short and famous audio clip</a>. He didn't press the issue and now the "canonical" pronunciation is all but dead.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">Nanny-scolding and obscure videos won't work. Visual clues in the word itself will.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394">
If only developers didn't detest marketing. It's not too late to add the accent.
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)" class="gmail_default">- Evan</div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 10:05 AM Robert Brockway via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 31 Jul 2023, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:<br>
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> There is more than one way to pronounce MATE?<br>
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It should be pronounced in the manner of the South American drink it is <br>
named after rather than how an English speaker would normally say 'mate'.<br>
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Good short vid:<br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAqzdnNnvSQ" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAqzdnNnvSQ</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Rob<br>
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