Yohohoho!
I’m not a KDE, I’m not XFCE, I’m not LTQt, I’m not a Hyprland, I’m not a Cinnamon, I’m a Guh-Nome! And you have been Guh-Nomed!
borks your Linux
Its pronounced GIF
No it’s not
Linux/opensource naming can be the wildest stuff.
It would seem gnome is the correct pronunciation. GNU naming conventions are a pipe dream.
If you add an “e” after the “G” then all of a sudden it’s Science!
I thought it was either gnome (as in garden gnome) or genome (as in genetics).
What the fuck is a guhnome
You’ve blinded me!
This only makes sense to me because my aunt worked on guh-noo.
Phonetically it’s pronounced “K-D-E-is-superior”
But hey, language is protean. It evolves and flows like a river, daddy-o.
KDE MFs be like, “it’s very intuitive.” Meanwhile it looks like this:
You are correct. But you are missing the most important button. Right in the middle of that table there is a big red button that says “autopilot - Manage all these things for me and I can play with a few of those other buttons, or all, or even none, and the rest doesn’t have to be touched by the user unless they want to”
Nice, so I can read all I want on keto?
lol
Jnome, like gif.
If gif is pronounced gif, the gnome should be pronounced gnome
Gi gives the g a j sound. Like gist, gibberish, giraffe, giant do at least that one is easy to pick up on.
It was a tongue-in-cheek response. The English alphabet doesn’t convey pronunciation.
I love how you state that as a fact as if worlds like give, gift, gill, gibbon, giddy, etc don’t exist.
please tell me you call it JIT-HUB.
Like the peanut butter?
Choosy moms choose gif.
What’s the story behind /etc/ as /etsy/?
I always saw it as “et cetera”, so the “et” came naturally to me
I always read it as “et-c” to get that pronunciation
I don’t know if I’ve had to say Gnome out loud before to another human person. I would go with the garden variety gnome myself.
For some reason I assumed it was G-NOME
I call it Ubuntu.
Nginx should be pronounced ŋiŋks and rhyme with sphinx
I can’t even begin to know how to pronounce Nginx.
Engine X.
oh just get caught in your own zipper and you will nginx correctly
en-jinx
Engine X. I think.
I didn’t know that Elon Musk also wrote a webserver.
I only found that out within the last year. I’ve been pronouncing it like in-jinx for about a decade.
For those curious - it’s engine-x.
Meanwhile, me, a non-native English speaker:
The G is silent in English words starting with gn. Gnarly gnats is pronounced narly nats.
There’s not a lot of those words anyway
Gnu and gnome are exceptions only when used to describe the software. The gnu animal and the mythical gnome creature are pronounced with silent gs.
One does not learn English the language, one simply memorises it
The only way to learn what something sounds like as a non-native speaker is to look it up or listen to someone pronounce it. There are no rules – or at least no useful rules, because any rule will have many exceptions. Even different English dialects differ in how to pronounce words. There’s simply no making sense of it.
For example, in many British English dialects, the “a” in “can” and the one in “can’t” are pronounced completely differently, despite “can’t” being a contraction of “can not”. It’s literally the same word, just with a different word afterwords, and yet the two get different pronunciations. There’s no way to guess at that being the case, or come up with a logical reason why. You just have to accept it.
Even different English dialects differ in how to pronounce words. There’s simply no making sense of it. Well that is how dialects work
But a can of something?
