[TYPO3-english] official pronunciation of TYPO3

Joerg Wagner news.netfielders.de at digilog.de
Tue Nov 18 17:16:50 CET 2008


 > But in the Netherlands we always pronounce it in English.
 > Everybody does :-)

Well, no wonder you do. You Dutch people are the most polyglot folks I 
have seen around the world.  :D

Cheers, Jörg.


Patrick Broens schrieb:
> Xavier Perseguers wrote:
>> Georg Ringer wrote:
>>> Joerg Wagner wrote:
>>>> All these different writings and pronounciations would make up for a
>>>> great PR campaign. Imagine showing the use of TYPO3 all around the
>>>> world: Web and printed visuals with different writings (similar to
>>>> what Coca Cola did some time ago), video/audio spot showing people
>>>> from all over the world speaking the words "TYPO 3" in their
>>>> respective version.
>>> I thought about that too and this would be a great podcast which could
>>> be done at the next TYPO3 meetings like T3CON, T3DD, T3BOARD and so on.
>> I had exactly the same idea :-)
>>
> I like that idea :-)
> 
> In Dutch this sounds also really funny. We hardly use the vowel 'y', but
> have a contraction of 'i' and 'j' like 'ij', which basically makes a 'y'.
> 
> It should sound a bit like tehpo dree.
> 
> But in the Netherlands we always pronounce it in English. Everybody does :-)
> 
> Patrick


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