Pronouncing "ubuntu"
Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings.co.za
Thu Mar 2 16:11:17 UTC 2006
On Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:50, Billy Verreynne (JW) wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > oo-BOON-too is as close as most Western tongues get.
> > A Xhosa speaker might disagree, but that's a whole
> > other thread for another time...
>
> Suffice to say that if you add an "eish" (pronounced "eeessshhh")
> in somewhere it will do just fine even for Xhosa speakers..
>
> E.g. "eish Windows? Ubuntu!"
lol, /me now has to wipe coffee stains off keyboard and screen...
shouldn't that be "eish Windows? iUbuntu?"
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Alan McKinnon
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