The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoMy hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOMEmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square302linkfedilinkarrow-up1919arrow-down111
arrow-up1908arrow-down1imageMy hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOMEmedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square302linkfedilink
minus-squareserendepity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·edit-22 days agoIf gif is pronounced gif, then gnome should be pronounced gnome
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·edit-23 days agoGi gives the g a j sound. Like gist, gibberish, giraffe, giant do at least that one is easy to pick up on.
minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-22 days agoI love how you state that as a fact as if words like give, gift, gill, gibbon, giddy, etc don’t exist. please tell me you call it JIT-HUB.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agoYou will also note that the pronunciation of gif is debated despite me saying it’s easy to pick up on.
minus-squareserendepity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoIt was a tongue-in-cheek response. The English alphabet doesn’t convey pronunciation.
minus-squareenbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agothat’s evil gnome, if written in Java
Jnome, like gif.
If gif is pronounced gif, then 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.
I love how you state that as a fact as if words like give, gift, gill, gibbon, giddy, etc don’t exist.
please tell me you call it JIT-HUB.
I do now.
Hi Jinny
You will also note that the pronunciation of gif is debated despite me saying it’s easy to pick up on.
Gift
It was a tongue-in-cheek response. The English alphabet doesn’t convey pronunciation.
Like the peanut butter?
Choosy moms choose gif.
that’s evil gnome, if written in Java