Its a french company. Its not you-bee-soft.Because it would be grammatically incorrect. It's You-Bee-Soft, like You-Ni-Form.
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A Ubisoft Original... why is it not an?
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The determiners "a" and "an" depend on the first phoneme (how it sounds) of the word - i.e the first sound. If it is a vowel SOUND, then you use "an", to avoid a horrible vowel clash. If it is a consonant sound, then you use "a". In the case of Ubisoft, the first phoneme is "you", when spoken in English, rather than "oo". This means the first phoneme is a consonant, so "a" is used.
Speaking as a UK primary school teacher. :)
Speaking as a UK primary school teacher. :)
Fun fact: i have a few friends that work for Ubi here in Osaka, and the Japanese on their business cards says ユービーアイソフト株式会社. In English, that would be "U.B.I. soft" where each letter is spelled out. No one can seem to agree it seems lol.
'A' or 'an'? What about before 'h'? An Indefinite Article Guide
When to use each, and when to say 'either one works'www.merriam-webster.com
Lol at the last sentence.
"Here are some clear rules to follow, except for the words out there that don't follow them because fuck you"
Obviously those words used to have a silent H, but newcomers to the language have absolutely no way of intuitively knowing that.
They teach it at school though? I remember it from middle school but dunno at what grade they teach it in the U.S. (im from Indonesia)
I thought UBI originally stood for: Union des Bretons Indépendants not Ubiquitous.
"Union" in French is pronounced "oonion".
Anyway, it's not like Ubisoft is an English word so there's not a "right " way to pronounce it.
If you are used to calling it ooh bee soft then you would find it strange that it started with the article "a" instead of "an".
I think Ubisoft coming up with this (a Ubisoft Original) thing is them trying to put an end to this debate lol.
"Union" in French is pronounced "oonion".
Anyway, it's not like Ubisoft is an English word so there's not a "right " way to pronounce it.
If you are used to calling it ooh bee soft then you would find it strange that it started with the article "a" instead of "an".
I think Ubisoft coming up with this (a Ubisoft Original) thing is them trying to put an end to this debate lol.
Ubisoft don't give a fuck. They've posted videos of their own employees pronouncing it however they wanted and ended saying they don't care if people pronounce it oobisoft or youbisoft. They went with "A" because the sentence is in English and the vast majority of English speakers will pronounce it as youbisoft.
I don't know what sound is oo, but everyone can heard the way Frenchs said it here :
union - Wiktionary
This is all incorrect. Where does this myth that "u" is pronounced "oo" in French come from? English doesn't have a sound for the French "u", so both You-be-soft and Oo-be-soft are English ways of saying it and neither is more French.
It comes from the video of Yves Guillemot pronouncing it that way.
I'm gonna need a link because here's two vids where he doesn't:
He says Yoo-be-soft in the first video in English, and at 1:35 in the second video, he pronounces it in French, then says, "in English you can say Yoo-be-soft or you can pronounce it the way you want." He doesn't pronounce it Oo-be-soft.
I mean... To be fair, every french person in that second video says oo-bisoft. Even people who aren't french say "when speaking to people in france or canada, oo-bisoft".
No they don't. Every single French person in the video says it Ubisoft the French way. Listen to this to hear the French "u" then watch the video again:
I don't know what sound is oo, but everyone can heard the way Frenchs said it here :
union - Wiktionary
en.wiktionary.org
It's not "oo". It's just "u" and there's no equivalent in English.
When there are two options and one of the options is "you-bisoft" I think it's safe to assume that your "u" is what people mean when they type "oo".
As a non-native speaker too it makes perfect sense for me at least. You don't wanna say "an ubiquitous thing" out loud because that's clumsy. Language written is to serve language spoken, meaning that spoken language is our primary, natural way to communicate and language written tries to serve the communication needs when we can't (or when we dont want to) communicate by speaking. That's why how we speak has a strong effect on how we write, though written standard language is purposefully kept as slow to change.
Written language can sometimes affect how we speak but they're fairly rare cases. And obviously written language isn't nearly 1-to-1 to spoken language and often it's very illogical.
We should change it to Istory for easier pronunciation.
And anubisoft sounds like a company named after the ancient egyptian god, which I think is cooler.
And anubisoft sounds like a company named after the ancient egyptian god, which I think is cooler.
Well, it's not pronounced you-nion in French is all what I'm saying.
"You-be-soft" is like in "unique" and "Oo-be-soft" is like in "Uber". These are the only two options for English speakers because you can't pronounce the French "u". French speakers say it a third way. Nobody should fool themselves thinking saying it "Oo-be-soft" is any more French than "You-be-soft". They're both English adaptations of a sound you can't pronounce.
He can correct my grammar one he corrects the abuse at his company.
I'm being pedantic by correcting non-French speakers who incorrectly tell others how French speakers supposedly pronounce things in a thread on that topic? I'm just trying to set the record straight that French people don't say "oo". I don't care how people say it in English, both are fine, my only point is that neither is more French.
Your posts are absolutely painful. Chill out. It's just people trying to write down phonetics.
I think you've invented a third, wrong option that nobody has actually suggested.
I mean "oo" is clearly just how people convey what you mean by "u":
I think you've invented a third, wrong option that nobody has actually suggested.
I mean "oo" is clearly just how people convey what you mean by "u":
But I'm not, there's clearly three (or four if we count U.B.I. soft) pronunciations in that video. Sorry if I'm being annoying but it's not true to say I'm inventing one nobody has suggested.
Growing up just learning English will net you quite a disadvantage in actually producing certain sounds like the U in Ubisoft. You and Oobiesoft are both wrong, it doesn't matter though as the right way is neigh impossible for the vast majority of the anglosphere to pronounce.
As this marketing is aimed at the anglosphere. they'll use the most common used Youbisoft,.. it'll become "A Ubisoft Production."
It's not really all that much of an enigma.
As this marketing is aimed at the anglosphere. they'll use the most common used Youbisoft,.. it'll become "A Ubisoft Production."
It's not really all that much of an enigma.