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1over137today at 4:22 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah, especially since most Americans don't know how to properly pronounce Claude.


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txrutoday at 4:38 PM

Hmm, Claude Shannon was an American (the model is ostensibly named after him), so maybe how he pronounced it would be the correct pronunciation.

That said, every language on earth will adapt foreign words into its phonology. The alternative would be to adopt the phonology of every language that loaned a word into your language.