How would you pronounce Vista?


How would you pronounce Vista?  

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  1. 1. How would you pronounce Vista?

    • Vesta (with an e sound)
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    • Vista (with more of an i sound)
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if i were speaking spanish talking about vista, i would pronounce it with a spanish accent. vista has become an english word, and thus it takes on the english accent when used in an english sentance.

consider them seperate words, from seperate languages, with the exact same meaning and spelling :p

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umm how do i pronounce neowin?

This thread is stupid, and a waste of electrons. Call it in whatever accent you know, cause as some US president said

Its a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word

just replace the spell with pronounce!

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thanks guys *well the ones that didn't flame on how this was a stupid post that act like they never needed help pronouncing a word before*

i personally ask because i pronounce it vesta like arnold swartzawhatever.. so i was talkin to some buddies of mine on ventrilo and they said it should be Vista with a short i sound. i just wanted to clarify it in how others would pronounce it.

to the flamers... now... how would you pronounce PNEUMONO?ULTRA?MICRO?SCOPIC?SILICO?VOLCANO?CO? (and yes thats a word not something i made up..lolz.)

cheers

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thanks guys *well the ones that didn't flame on how this was a stupid post that act like they never needed help pronouncing a word before*

i personally ask because i pronounce it vesta like arnold swartzawhatever.. so i was talkin to some buddies of mine on ventrilo and they said it should be Vista with a short i sound. i just wanted to clarify it in how others would pronounce it.

to the flamers... now... how would you pronounce PNEUMONO?ULTRA?MICRO?SCOPIC?SILICO?VOLCANO?CO? (and yes thats a word not something i made up..lolz.)

cheers

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NEW-MOH-NOH-UHL-TRA-MIKE-ROH-SKAHPIK-SIH-LIH-COH-VAHL-CAH-NOH-COH

You sort of get the gist of it. It's just a lot of smaller words combined to make up a larger word, sounding out the smaller words is not difficult, sometimes because of stress a word might be pronounced differently.

The point people were trying to make when you say they are flaming is that there is a HUGE difference between how the word is pronounced in its native languages and how MICROSOFT WINDOWS (VISTA) is pronounced. If you're talking about the native language; Vista is a word in both Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. It has a different pronunciation in each of those languages.

Italian - ( VEE-STAH ) long I and long A

Spanish - ( (b)EE-STAH ) the spanish v has a soft b pronunciation. The b sound is not forced, it is very soft. both vowels are long ( I and A )

Portuguese - ( VEE-STUH ) The (a) at the end of portuguese words are normally pronounced as ( UH ) - The same sound an American would make when pronouncing the last a in America.

They all mean sight or view.

Now if you're talking about the way Microsoft intends it to be pronounced is the same way vista is pronounced in American English, with a short i and usually a short a. Some americans pronounce it with a long a at the end: viss-tah, while some pronounce it with a short a at the end: viss-tuh. In any event, the main vowel in question would be the I which is pronounced short in the American version.

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When they first announced the name, I said Veesta mostly because that's how you would pronounce it in Spanish. I'm getting more used to Vista now, though.

Exactly the same!

First Veesta, then Vihsta. Grew on me.

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