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minus-squaredoxxx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month 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-up0arrow-down1·1 month ago…yknow other languages than English exist right?
minus-squaredoxxx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI’d argue that this still tracks in Dutch or German.
minus-squareSiegfried@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month 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]
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?
I’d argue that this still tracks in Dutch or German.
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]