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Yggdrasil Network

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322 points BSDobelix | 2 comments | 16 Nov 24 10:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
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fred_is_fred ◴[16 Nov 24 14:53 UTC] No.42156714[source]▶
I get why the name was used but if you start a project that you want to be heavily adopted, please pick a simpler name. The complexity of spelling or pronouncing this for most people creates an actual barrier to adoption. MP3 was easy to say and tell your friends about, Ogg Vorbis was not.
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prmoustache ◴[16 Nov 24 16:27 UTC] No.42157189[source]▶
I am pretty sure most of the world can figure out how to ponounce yggdrasil much easier than how to pronounce infrastructure or litterature in english.

https://youtu.be/RpCTu2ymqiM?feature=shared

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NemoNobody ◴[16 Nov 24 16:44 UTC] No.42157310[source]▶
Not once they have familiarity with the language at all.

One of your examples has a word within a word, so it's like half pronounced if you can say "structure" which I think difficult to mispronounce.

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1. poincaredisk ◴[16 Nov 24 17:53 UTC] No.42157775[source]▶
Every kid learning English in my country will pronounce "structure" incorrectly at first, because it's similar to a word (with the same meaning) in my native language, and the correct English pronunciation of -ture doesn't make sense. I've looked up Yggdrassil pronunciation and... it's not surprising and I guessed the pronunciation correctly already?
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2. rustcleaner ◴[17 Nov 24 04:18 UTC] No.42161921[source]▶
>Yggdrassil

Yggdrasil