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Mats Wiman 
Sweden
Local time: 14:54
Member (2000)
German to Swedish
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In memoriam
Dear all,
One often hears even seasoned members commit errors in this field.
I believe all of us have done it.
I for one pronunced ProZ like 'prozed' [prou'zed] for a long time until I finally got it:
It should be pronunced:
'prose' [prouz]
playing on the word 'pro' (for professional)
AND:
the name of our community is:
'ProZ.com'... See more Dear all,
One often hears even seasoned members commit errors in this field.
I believe all of us have done it.
I for one pronunced ProZ like 'prozed' [prou'zed] for a long time until I finally got it:
It should be pronunced:
'prose' [prouz]
playing on the word 'pro' (for professional)
AND:
the name of our community is:
'ProZ.com'
(not 'Proz' or 'ProZ' only)
This will help us all in marketing ProZ.com to the various markets where we all want it to have success.
Best regards
Mats J C Wiman
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[Edited at 2004-02-21 07:09] ▲ Collapse
| | | | Heinrich Pesch
Finland
Local time: 15:54
Member (2003)
Finnish to German
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| For me it is Protz | Feb 21, 2004 |
Neither in German, Finnisch or Russian can there be a soft 's' at a wordending. So I pronounce it prots in Finnish.
How to you spell pizza by the way? piz-za looks good, but nobody says pits-tsa, only pitsa, or the americans probably say piitsa.
| | | | Mats Wiman
Sweden
Local time: 14:54
Member (2000)
German to Swedish
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TOPIC STARTER In memoriam | [prouz] is English of course | Feb 21, 2004 |
The site being American and just as little as you pronunce New York [nehvjork] the name of our community is [prouzdotcom].
There is nothing called [protzpunktcom]. I would also not use it as the German word 'protzen' means 'to boast' which is not and ought not to be a characteritic of ProZ.com
BR
Mats
| | | | | Double play on words, not only for professionals (pros) | Feb 21, 2004 |
[quote]Mats Wiman wrote:
playing on the word 'pro' (for professional)
AND:
the name of our community is:
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It's also a play on the word "prose" meaning language used for speaking or writing. See the Merriam Webster link for the definition and pronunciation.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=prose&x=18&y=18
That is how proZ should be pronounced.
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Mats Wiman
Sweden
Local time: 14:54
Member (2000)
German to Swedish
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TOPIC STARTER In memoriam | Thanks Gayle! | Feb 21, 2004 |
One always learns new things on ProZ.com !
[Edited at 2004-02-21 10:56]
| | | | | | Bombero (X)
Spanish to English
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okay, it seems like you all are taking this to extremely petty academic levels. in harlem, "boys" is sometimes written "boyz" and "flavors" is, in a certain shop i buy clothes in, is "flavaz," and we don't bother with capital letterz, either.
so say it like "proz" as in "the pros and cons" and then a good, solid, american word "dot." finish the whole thing off with "com" as in "sit-com," and that doesn't mean you should give it the british pronunication as if it were a great big OOO... See more okay, it seems like you all are taking this to extremely petty academic levels. in harlem, "boys" is sometimes written "boyz" and "flavors" is, in a certain shop i buy clothes in, is "flavaz," and we don't bother with capital letterz, either.
so say it like "proz" as in "the pros and cons" and then a good, solid, american word "dot." finish the whole thing off with "com" as in "sit-com," and that doesn't mean you should give it the british pronunication as if it were a great big OOO with rounded lips. say "dot" and "com" like the "a" in father, only shorter. don't give me any british "daught" like in "daughter." that doesn't get it. it's an american company. and until the british press learns to write "world trade center" offically (and respectfully) with an "er" instead of "re," i'm not giving a single inch on the pronunciation, okay?
then, man, it's in the bag! got questionz? let me know. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Prost-Dot-Com | Feb 21, 2004 |
...(Any other varieties?)... German Prost! or Latin Prosit! meaning Cheers!
[Edited at 2004-02-22 08:03]
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Bombero (X)
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| spelling not equal to pronunciation | Feb 22, 2004 |
oh, really? how about 'ya cejchas vernus'? sounds like a soft 's' to me. you seem not to understand the difference in english pronunciation between the 's' and 'z' at the end of a word or syllable. true? additionally, what exactly is the correlation between spelling and pronunciation, anyway?
Heinrich Pesch wrote:
Neither in German, Finnisch or Russian can there be a soft 's' at a wordending. So I pronounce it prots in Finnish.
How to you spell pizza by the way? piz-za looks good, but nobody says pits-tsa, only pitsa, or the americans probably say piitsa.
| | | | | ProZ with the 'o'as in pos(itive)... | Feb 22, 2004 |
That's how I thought it was said...
[Edited at 2004-12-29 07:28]
| | | | | Hispanic pronunciation, at least from some of us here in Argentina | Feb 22, 2004 |
Some of us translators in Argentina tend to pronounce it as "proseta punto com" or just "proseta". I know it doesn´t sound posh or even academic but it does show the familiarity with which we approach the site.
Regards,
Leonardo Parachú.
[Edited at 2004-02-22 21:43]
| | | | | Thank you all!! | Feb 25, 2004 |
I have always pronounced it (correctly I believe) as the English "prose".
How many times do I hear people at work calling it pro-zee?!? Ugh! Worse than dragging your fingernails on the chalkboard!
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| Quadruple play on words | Mar 3, 2004 |
So for 'proZ' so far we have:
1) pros as in 'professionals';
2) prose;
3) pros as in 'pros and cons'; and
4) pros as in 'prostitutes'.
Perhaps not all thought of by Henry when coining the name
| | | | Fernanda Rocha
Brazil
Local time: 09:54
Member
English to Portuguese
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MODERATOR | Sorry Aquila, but... | Dec 15, 2009 |
The pronunciation of 'prostitutes' is not the same.
For example:
Prostitutes = \ˈpräs-tə-ˌtüt, -ˌtyüt\ or /ˈprɒstɪˌtjuːt/
Professional = \prə-ˈfesh-nəl, -ˈfe-shə-nəl\ or /prəˈfəʃən(ə)l/
Despite the identical abbreviation, the pronunciation does not match!
Cheers,
Fernanda
| | | | Suzan Hamer
Netherlands
Local time: 14:54
English
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| Now all you have to do is get "ProZ.com" into the dictionary | Dec 15, 2009 |
so you can have an audio pronunciation thing for it. Or can you just add one to the site someplace, so if the question arises again, people can just click on the pronunciation icon to hear the proper pronunciation. (Referring to Henry D's audio links.)
[Edited at 2009-12-15 21:49 GMT]
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