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    How to Pronounce Clevo

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Bovine Mage, Sep 12, 2008.

  1. Bovine Mage

    Bovine Mage Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm sorry if this thread has been flogged and beaten a billion times, but I really don't know:

    How do you correctly (officially?) pronounce Clevo?

    I wanted to tell my friends that I've bought a Sager, but since it's actually a ProStar, I just wanted to skip the Middleman and go directly to the ODM. :D

    - Bovine Mage
     
  2. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hm, I've always tried to pronounce it as "Klie Voh". Don't trust my pronunciation though :D.
     
  3. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    I do not know how else to pronounce it but....

    klē-vō
     
  4. vestibule1443

    vestibule1443 Notebook Evangelist

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    i say it like cleaver (the knife) but with an O at the end
     
  5. shoelace_510

    shoelace_510 8700M GT inside... ^-^;

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    yup same: cleavo. ;)
     
  6. KrieGLoCK

    KrieGLoCK Notebook Evangelist

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    just like its sounds bro.

    Clee Vooo

    like clevage. except clevo
     
  7. SplinteredVision

    SplinteredVision Notebook Consultant

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    I would think it's either cleh-vo or clay-vo...I doubt it's clee-vo
     
  8. Selenium

    Selenium Notebook Evangelist

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    Clee-voh

    Say-jer

    Poh-tay-toh
     
  9. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Cleevoh , that would be it.
    Look it up on youtube also..
     
  10. IKAS V

    IKAS V Notebook Prophet

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    Just call it kick@ss!
     
  11. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    I like calling mine... custom.

    or...

    "It aint a .Dell." :)
     
  12. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I was thinking, perhaps "inexpensive, but not cheap" or somesuch. ;)
     
  13. plasma.

    plasma. herpyderpy

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    hey gophn, is ur name pronounced GO-FINE?

    do i win the internets ? :D :D

    (sorry if this is like the 10th time ive asked, but i always forget to check back on ur reply)
     
  14. talin

    talin Notebook Prophet

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    I thought it was go-fen (or more accurately, go-fin). :confused: :D
     
  15. amcolex

    amcolex Notebook Guru

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    hmm I read it as gofn.

    note i said read, saying it is a different story :p
     
  16. robvya

    robvya Notebook Evangelist

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    i pronounce it clé-vo

    and gophn i think its pronounce gopun or gopt lol
     
  17. JACK@ROCK

    JACK@ROCK Company Representative

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    ^^^ Agreed totally although I did like the idea of clevage :D
     
  18. makaveli72

    makaveli72 Eat.My.Shorts

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    Clee-voh

    Gofin or Gofyn :D WTH is a Gophn anyway! :p
     
  19. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Dell is not all that you might think.
    The XPS line is the most amazing one,and I should know, there's like 13 laptops in this house, out of which 3 are XPSs,2 studios, 4 Hps and some more.
    I got a change to test a huge ammount of laptops since all my coworkers got one or the other.
    And my XPS, although not the most appealing, is the most solid one.
    Not to mention the fastest...

    Anywho, Cleevough. How`s that? :D
     
  20. Nirvana

    Nirvana Notebook Prophet

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    or you can call them blue sky
     
  21. Megacharge

    Megacharge Custom User Title

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    I would agree with everyone, I think we all pretty much pronounce it the same "Cleev oh" it seems the only natural way to say it, but then again we're not Taiwanese, but im sure them being a Taiwanese company has nothing to do with their name, i could be wrong though. :D
     
  22. steveninspokane

    steveninspokane John 14:6 - Only ONE Way!

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    Just say it's not a mac... :p

    and gophn, i sometime add an "L" sound like golfing but less ing, more in.

    EDIT* oh, and yeah clee like glee and O like O Cleav O
     
  23. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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  24. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    you guys are pretty close [about the pronunciation of my alias], someone did get it right though. :)

    I went over this in here a number of times, even put it in the sound notation of dictionaries. :)
     
  25. Bovine Mage

    Bovine Mage Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks for the quick response everybody! I believe I'll choose:

    1.) Clee-voh
    2.) Cleavage
    3.) Cleaver
    4.) Not a Mac
    5.) Ain't a Dell
    6.) Custom
    7.) Runs Crysis for more than a few seconds

    Once again, thanks for all the great ways to say my computer's awesome =)

    - Bovine Mage
     
  26. steveninspokane

    steveninspokane John 14:6 - Only ONE Way!

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    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=2031688&postcount=27
     
  27. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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  28. steveninspokane

    steveninspokane John 14:6 - Only ONE Way!

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    yeah, all I had to do was google you. :p
     
  29. DFTrance

    DFTrance Notebook Deity

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    I pronounce it ... Ovelc, yes say it again Ovelc, easy yes?

    Trance
    PS: "Once upon a time a little bunny was walking on the woods. He found a Gophn an Ovelc. They were really good friends. But Regas the warlord always came to spoil the picnic ... Tlabok the king of the Ueis always came to save the food" :) ... Maybe I'm reading too many lovely and silly stories to my child in bed. I always get way too much emotionally involved.
     
  30. Dislexi

    Dislexi Notebook Enthusiast

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    this is such a strange thread...
     
  31. tornbacchus

    tornbacchus GO leafs.. Wait, Nevermid

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    ha u want a challenge, try and pronounce the toshiba "qosmio"

    i was pronouncing it like quasemo (and qua being like a french word)
     
  32. SplinteredVision

    SplinteredVision Notebook Consultant

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    hmmm I still like saying cleh-voh...I mean, red, bled, bevel, devil, deli, clevo...how can it be wrong when it feels so right?
     
  33. steveninspokane

    steveninspokane John 14:6 - Only ONE Way!

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    maybe it's one of those to-ma-to, ta-maa-to things.