@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 2 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.com@[email protected] to TechnologyEnglish • 2 months agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish22•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-square@SiegfriedlinkEnglish19•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•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.