X-Git-Url: http://shamusworld.gotdns.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=_manual%2F01_welcome-to-ardour%2F01_about-ardour%2F03_why-is-it-called-ardour.html;h=aaa0e2baab0cf105913b1fd614f19064d9e0e734;hb=9f1ac7fe361381892ac3f3bc88c27a418282375c;hp=2f1c62e34272b8099cf660733cdf58408f253ee5;hpb=80b03a51caf9cf077ff20bf4d737b55c6e1b786d;p=ardour-manual diff --git a/_manual/01_welcome-to-ardour/01_about-ardour/03_why-is-it-called-ardour.html b/_manual/01_welcome-to-ardour/01_about-ardour/03_why-is-it-called-ardour.html index 2f1c62e..aaa0e2b 100644 --- a/_manual/01_welcome-to-ardour/01_about-ardour/03_why-is-it-called-ardour.html +++ b/_manual/01_welcome-to-ardour/01_about-ardour/03_why-is-it-called-ardour.html @@ -4,29 +4,31 @@ title: Why is it called Ardour? ---

-The name "Ardour" came from considerations of how to pronounce the acronym -HDR. The most obvious attempt sounds -like a vowelless "harder" and it then was then a short step to an unrelated -but slightly homophonic word: + The name "Ardour" came from considerations of how to pronounce the acronym + HDR. The most obvious attempt sounds + like a vowelless "harder" and it then was then a short step to an unrelated + but slightly homophonic word:

- ardour n 1: a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of - a person or cause); "they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor"; "he - felt a kind of religious zeal" [syn: ardor, elan, zeal]
- 2: intense feeling of love [syn: ardor]
- 3: feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor" - [syn: ardor, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness] +

+ ardour n 1: a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of + a person or cause); "they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor"; "he + felt a kind of religious zeal" [syn: ardor, elan, zeal]
+ 2: intense feeling of love [syn: ardor]
+ 3: feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor" + [syn: ardor, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness] +

-Given the work required to develop Ardour, and the personality of its -primary author, the name seemed appropriate even without the vague -relationship to HDR. + Given the work required to develop Ardour, and the personality of its + primary author, the name seemed appropriate even without the vague + relationship to HDR.

-Years later, another interpretation of "Ardour" appeared, this time based -on listening to non-native English speakers attempt to pronounce the word. -Rather than "Ardour", it became "Our DAW", which seemed poetically fitting -for a Digital Audio Workstation whose source code and design belongs to a -group of collaborators. + Years later, another interpretation of "Ardour" appeared, this time based + on listening to non-native English speakers attempt to pronounce the word. + Rather than "Ardour", it became "Our DAW", which seemed poetically fitting + for a Digital Audio Workstation whose source code and design belongs to a + group of collaborators.