2w ago

the pronunciation of HTML according to a bunch of fediverse people

Pronunciation	Language	From
Hush Teh Meh Leh	Romanian	Dan Burzo
hache te eme ele	Spanish	Pablo Brasero
Acca Ti Emme Elle	Italian	Gustavino Bevilacqua
Ash Teh Em El	Metropolitan French	Hypolite Petovan
Hache Thé Aime Aile	French	Julien Bidoret
Ɦaːtɛːɛmɛl	Czech	Phantasm
Hå Te Em El	Swedish	koltrast
Agga Teh Emi Eli	Brazilian Portuguese	bltavares
Hash Teh Em El	French	QuentinJuhel
Ash Tay Em El	French	bartholin
ash tey em el	Français	Louis Merlin
Ash Tey Em El	French	nicolas
How tyeah emm etl	Icelandic	spyrjið ekki fyrir hvern uglan vælir
Ha Tee Em El	German	KowalskiFlausn
Acheter M Elle	French	mangeurdenuage
Aga Te Eme Eli	Brazilian Portuguese	フェリッペ
Uh-Gah Teh Emm-y-El	Portugal Portuguese	Miguel Tavares
Hå Te Em El	Swedish	Daniel M Karlsson
ache te eme ele	Spanish	jailandrade
Esh Tee Em Al	Thai	Parnikkapore
hatch tea ohm ale	Spanish	Gavin
Agá Tê Eme Ele	Portuguese	Lvxferre
Itsh tee im ill	Arabic	Fxomt
Hoo tee äm äl	Finnish	markz

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English: "Hotmail."
From the makers of SQL.
- Squirrel
  
  does anyone actually call it Squirrel? MySquirrel?
  
  Which has five syllables in German.
Itsh (or ish) tee im ill, or e[t]sh tee em ell in arabic.
إتش تي إم إل
إش تي إم إل
- Oh thanks! I will update the table with this one!
hoo tee äm äl for finnish.
Didn't bother looking up diacritics.
- Ohhhh super cool to see!
Aga Te Eme Eli [Brazilian Portuguese]
"Agá Tê Eme Ele". The last letter is "e", and the diacritics are kind of a big deal.
Note the spelling is the same in the European standard, so that "Brazilian" can be safely removed.
- I added your version to the list (I know its the same but with different diacritics) but I find that everyones answers were interesting
  
  Mine is simply orthographical. Some are informally transcribing it to the nearest English equivalent, but pronunciations are different, there are different ways to transcribe it, and even the original spelling is influencing it a bit:
  "Uh-Gah Teh Emm-y-El" implies the first /a/ from "agá" (H) got reduced to [ɐ], the last vowel in "ele" is being elided, and the /e/ in "eme" (M) is being lowered to [ɛ]. I bet the -y- is to represent [ɨ], English lacks the sound so it gets tricky to represent it.
  "Agga Teh Emi Eli" implies the ending /e/'s are actually /i/'s. There's some orthographic interference though - the "e" in "eme" (M) is typically [e] for those folks, but the one in "ele" (L) is [ɛ] instead.

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