Ubuntu on Veronica Mars

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 4/14/05, Mary Gardiner <mary-sounder at puzzling.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > one possible idea for the web site: a little sound file with Mark
> > telling the world how to pronounce it properly.   Then next time we
> > find someone not pronouncing it properly, we could point them to the
> > web site.
> 
> Or you could get a native speaker of whichever language "Ubuntu" comes
> from (was it Zulu?), because my third hand information suggests that it
> wasn't from Mark's native language. I can only hope that it turns out to
> be a click language and that the middle vowel is actually a kissy lip
> smacking click... ;)

according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu)  it is
/ùbúntú/  in the international phonetic alphabet.

But I still think we should have a sound bite from Mark somewhere. 
How about after a successfull install, on the first boot you get: 
"Hi, I'm Mark Shuttleworth, and welcome to Ubuntu".  That would be a
nice friendly touch for new users :)

Of course that would mean quite a few sound recordings to do for all
the languages now supported by the installer... So maybe it is not
practical.