Menu editor not working

Peter Flynn peter at silmaril.ie
Wed Oct 31 21:31:49 UTC 2018


On 31/10/18 11:27, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 12:18, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
>> Excuse my ignorance, but is it Maté as in tea or Mate as in
>> friend?
> 
> The desktop is named after the tea so it's pronounced Mah-TAY with 2
> syllables.

Thank you.

> In Spanish, "mate" would be mah-tay. However in English it's one 
> syllable with a dipthong for the vowel sound, so it's written maté
> to make it clear that is's not the English noun "mate".

Make sense.

I tried it once. I think 'acquired taste' is the closest.

///Peter




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