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From: Anders Sundstedt <anders@sundstedt.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [AE] Lossless movie format
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 17:17:55 +0100
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Hi Brendan,

I only looked briefly and missed to view the logo, now seeing the palm tree 
it makes sense why the summary says it's pronounced "palm" indeed.

For png i always said p n g and did not even know it was pronounced "ping".

One solution is that you swap the palm to a pomegranate and problem is 
solved, then you don't need to explain how to pronounce .pom and people 
(like myself) does not have to scratch our heads wondering :D

Anders


-----Original Message----- 
From: Brendan Bolles
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 4:49 PM
To: After Effects Mail List
Subject: Re: [AE] Lossless movie format

On May 13, 2014, at 6:45 AM, Anders Sundstedt wrote:

> My initial comment reading just the first section would be on pronouncing 
> the extension, why "palm", when it's POM and also means Professional Open 
> Movie file format? (No L)
>
> There's a subtle L in "palm" vs "pom" so I would argue that it's not quite 
> "palm". (I also checked with a text to speech software).
>
> I could be wrong but just wanted to comment on that one.


Well, I guess that's sort of a pun.  At least with a Californian accent, the 
two sound identical.  Maybe I should drop the bit about pronunciation and 
let people say it however they might, hopefully like the beginning of the 
word "pomegranate."  People in other countries can scratch their heads and 
wonder why the POM file format has a palm tree in its logo.

I was following the example of PNG, which is officially pronounced "ping", 
but since "png" is unpronounceable, I guess there are no accent 
incompatibilities there.

And of course, I am open to better names if anyone has one.


Brendan


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