A Recent Presentation about the DragonBox Pyra

[Null]

I can make a basic ASCII text editor that requires 16GB of RAM and a 3GHz octa-core CPU if you want.

Microsoft already beat you to it.

 

[rygD]

Like this: http://en.wikipedia....unded_vowel.ogg

 
Right, and that is why I was asking for something better, because to me it sounds like he is saying "EE".  I listened to i found int a bunch, then looked at a few suggestions on how to do the mouth part right, and since I am pretty sure I still have it all wrong, I asked for the example, using "pure".  The way I say the u immediately after the p is how I make the y sound in Pyra after reading the stuff.  It need not be you that explains it.  If it is the sound I am making based on the instructions I read I use it in English all the time.

"footy-cure"

Ha, that is great.

we can say someone had a Pyrrhic victory, and we pronounce that as "Peer-ic"

When is this said, what does it mean?

How about "PEER - Ah"  That gets rid of the slightly amusing "Pee" part of it.

That is kinda what it sounded like ED was saying to me, except a little lighter on the E.  That is why I described it as sounding like Pier-ah. 

Ya know what, I will just treat it like everything related to software and such that I don't know how to say properly.  I just won't say it.

 

[slaeshjag]

It you can't hear the 'y' in that link, then that would be because you haven't trained your ear to distinguish that vowel. To me, I immediatly heard it as a 'y', not ee. 

 

[rygD]

Well it doesn't help that these speakers really suck. I also have the y in u sound for pure, so I guess I am saying it right.

 

[_wb_]

we can say someone had a Pyrrhic victory, and we pronounce that as "Peer-ic"

When is this said, what does it mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory

For example, the way the OpenPandora project succeeded was kind of a Pyrrhic victory, from a commercial point of view that is.

It you can't hear the 'y' in that link, then that would be because you haven't trained your ear to distinguish that vowel. To me, I immediatly heard it as a 'y', not ee. 

This might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_vowel_chart_with_audio

 

[fusion_power]

I can make a basic ASCII text editor that requires 16GB of RAM and a 3GHz octa-core CPU if you want.

Hey, that's the way, todays PC games are done, zero optimizing it seems and feels compared to the matching Console versions. One disadvantage if the hardware get's faster and faster, it makes coders more lazy it seems.So I hope the Pyra will not be to powerful... XD

 

[Kumaki]

WB beat me to it, and posted the Wiki definition...without looking at it...I would say that a Pyrrhic victory is a bittersweet sort of victory...a victory gained...but at a negative cost.  A victory that happened, but along the waylots of trouble and loss.

Now I will peek at the Wiki definition.