Carlos-Curitiba Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 How do you pronounce uTorrent?Micro torrent, mu torrent or you torrent?At Wikipedia I found:------------Pronunciation"You" (u) or "Micro" (μ) The author of µTorrent wrote in 2005, "I usually say 'you torrent' because it looks like a u", and offered "microtorrent" and "mytorrent" as candidate pronunciations. The symbol μ, which is actually the small Greek letter Mu, stands for the SI prefix "micro" meaning one one-millionth and refers to the program's small footprint.------------In many languages the symbol μ, is also said as "me".So "me torrent" is also a short and esay word to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 There are many topics about that... http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=6451http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=3028http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=19585 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Alderaan Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 And Wikipedia and the post by Ludde (original dev of µTorrent) about it: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=47#p47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos-Curitiba Posted February 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 It is best to say as Ludde use to say, so it hould be "you-torrent", but But here, in Brazil, people says "me-torrent". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saminbama Posted December 15, 2009 Report Share Posted December 15, 2009 "you torrent" makes no sense because that is not a U it is a µ (pronounced mew in English). It is a completely different letter than a u. Calling it "you torrent" is like calling it "en torrent" or "H torrent" just because the µ looks sort of like an h or an n.I resisted for a long time downloading µTorrent because of the mispronunciation.It should be pronounced Micro Torrent or Mu Torrent.Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saminbama Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 Cool. That is acceptable to me, as well. I just didn't want to be the only one calling it that.Peace,Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Alderaan Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 I resisted for a long time downloading µTorrent because of the mispronunciation.There is no 'correct' or 'official' pronunciation. As the wikipedia article (and Ludde) states "you", "micro", "my" and "mu" are all fine. And if the Greek letter Mu is pronounced differently in your language then that pronunciation would be fine too. Ofc you should feel free to call it micro torrent (and convince your friends to do the same).If you don't use this application just because you don't like how other people pronounce it then it is your loss really imho you shouldn't let what others do stop you I and all the people I actually talk with call it "you torrent", I think it sounds fine and don't really care whether it's semantically/linguistically/mathematically/morally correct or not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saminbama Posted December 16, 2009 Report Share Posted December 16, 2009 Thanks, Lord.I use the program now. It appears to be almost identical to BitTorrent. I started using µTorrent since the BitTorrent help pages were apparently merged to µTorrent's. Peace,Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Alderaan Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 BitTorrent is basically a re-branded µTorrent ever since version 6.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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