[arch-dev-public] German Pronunciation
How do you say "Gudrun". "Gerolde", and "Sigurd". I have my own English-ized pronunciations, but I'd like to know the real way to say it. I imagine the "Gud" is kinda like the german "guten", but is the "run" part like that too? Gude-rune?
Am Donnerstag 03 September 2009 03:26:08 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
How do you say "Gudrun". "Gerolde", and "Sigurd". I have my own English-ized pronunciations, but I'd like to know the real way to say it.
I imagine the "Gud" is kinda like the german "guten", but is the "run" part like that too? Gude-rune?
Yes, you are right here. It should sound like Goodroon like in boot or noon and the G like in get. I think Gerold is written without the e at the end; see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerold. Should be spoken as a hard G at the beginning, the er like in where and a short old. BTW: No idea who told you this but those names are everything but cool or sexy names for web servers. :-) -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
Am Donnerstag 03 September 2009 03:26:08 schrieb Aaron Griffin:
Yes, you are right here. It should sound like Goodroon like in boot or noon and the G like in get.
I think Gerold is written without the e at the end; see http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerold. Should be spoken as a hard G at the beginning, the er like in where and a short old. Well, there would be Gerolde as an old fashioned girls name ...
BTW: No idea who told you this but those names are everything but cool or sexy names for web servers. :-) The original Archlinux server was called dragon. So it's successor was called a dragon slayer. And now we stuck with the Nibelungs. I think it fits.
-T
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