schizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacyliliputing.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1148arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1144arrow-down1external-linkmikroPhone project is designing a smartphone with an emphasis on openness and privacyliliputing.comschizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squaredoxxxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down3·2 months agoFor fuck’s sake, stop making company/product names that are homophones of normal English words with “creative” spelling. “I bought a mikroPhone the other day”. “Oh, I didn’t know you sang?” “…what?”
minus-squareNate@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down11·2 months ago…yknow other languages than English exist right?
minus-squareSiegfried@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 months agoWays to say microphone Albanian mikrofon Basque mikrofonoa Belarusian мікрафон [mikrafon] Bosnian mikrofon Bulgarian микрофон [mikrofon] Catalan micròfon Corsican microfonu Croatian mikrofon Czech mikrofon Danish mikrofon Dutch microfoon Estonian mikrofon Finnish mikrofoni French microphone Frisian mikrofoan Galician micrófono German Mikrofon Greek μικρόφωνο [mikrófono] Hungarian mikrofon Icelandic hljóðnema Irish micreafón Italian microfono Latvian mikrofons Lithuanian mikrofonas Luxembourgish Mikrofon Macedonian микрофон [mikrofon] Maltese mikrofonu Norwegian mikrofon Polish mikrofon Portuguese microfone Romanian microfon Russian микрофон [mikrofon] Scots Gaelic micreofon Serbian микрофон [mikrofon] Slovak mikrofón Slovenian mikrofon Spanish micrófono Swedish mikrofon Tatar микрофон Ukrainian мікрофон [mikrofon] Welsh meicroffon Yiddish מיקראָפאָן [mikrofon]
minus-squaredoxxxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoI’d argue that this still tracks in Dutch or German.
For fuck’s sake, stop making company/product names that are homophones of normal English words with “creative” spelling.
“I bought a mikroPhone the other day”.
“Oh, I didn’t know you sang?”
“…what?”
…yknow other languages than English exist right?
Ways to say microphone
Albanian mikrofon Basque mikrofonoa Belarusian мікрафон [mikrafon] Bosnian mikrofon Bulgarian микрофон [mikrofon] Catalan micròfon Corsican microfonu Croatian mikrofon Czech mikrofon Danish mikrofon Dutch microfoon Estonian mikrofon Finnish mikrofoni French microphone Frisian mikrofoan Galician micrófono German Mikrofon Greek μικρόφωνο [mikrófono] Hungarian mikrofon Icelandic hljóðnema Irish micreafón Italian microfono Latvian mikrofons Lithuanian mikrofonas Luxembourgish Mikrofon Macedonian микрофон [mikrofon] Maltese mikrofonu Norwegian mikrofon Polish mikrofon Portuguese microfone Romanian microfon Russian микрофон [mikrofon] Scots Gaelic micreofon Serbian микрофон [mikrofon] Slovak mikrofón Slovenian mikrofon Spanish micrófono Swedish mikrofon Tatar микрофон Ukrainian мікрофон [mikrofon] Welsh meicroffon Yiddish מיקראָפאָן [mikrofon]
I’d argue that this still tracks in Dutch or German.