> On 26/09/2007, John Wang <johncwang@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/25/07, Satoshi Nagayasu <snaga@snaga.org> wrote:
> > > In Japan, many people pronounce 'Post-gres' or 'Pos-gre',
> > > but such ambiguous pronunciation is not a serious problem
> > > for us (PostgreSQL community). In fact, PostgreSQL has
> > > many users and large market-share in Japan.
> >
> > One of the proposals is to have 'Post-gre' become an accepted name along
> > with PostgreSQL and Postgres. This may solve the situation.
>
>
> I am not sure on what this observation is based? Japan as a market
> would be very pleased if the name was Postgres, as this is how it gets
> pronounced most often in my experience -- in the entire CJK market.
Nobody says like that in Japan, as far as I know.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
> I've heard (third-hand, I admit) that Postgre (without the S) would
> please people in Latin America, so if you're working with
> Brazil-returned Japanese, then I could see where you're coming from.
> But we have on our team a Venezuelan and he actually prefers Postgres
> because, in his words, "it doesn't leave the word hanging and sounds
> more like a word".
>
> Anyway, it seems this thread has outlasted almost every other thread,
> ever :) Isn't it time there was a website dedicated to this purpose?
> With a poll perhaps.
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