ñom
Making a fork of GNOME called GGNOME fr
GG Normie
gg, nome
no re(base)
It’s a French fork of GGNOME?
my brain is ruined. my head voice said “Gee-Guh-Nome”
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In Italian “gn” sounds like a brief “nyuh” or “ny” like in gnocchi.
So “nyome”.
Nyohmaye 🤌
Nyuma nyohma nyohmaye
also lasagna unless you’re British and you prefer yourself a la-zag-na
Gee No May. 😤
Jnome, like gif.
If gif is pronounced gif, the gnome should be pronounced gnome
Like the peanut butter?
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 worlds like give, gift, gill, gibbon, giddy, etc don’t exist.
please tell me you call it JIT-HUB.
I do now.
Hi Jinny
Gi gives
You will also note that the pronunciation of gif is debated despite me saying it’s easy to pick up on.
Gift
I personally pronounce it with a hard G even when talking about the mythical creature because that’s how it’s pronounced in most other languages that have a similar word. Anglos can go fuck themselves with their needlessly complicated phonetics.
It would seem gnome is the correct pronunciation. GNU naming conventions are a pipe dream.
If it makes anyone feel better, I watched a coworker write “sequel” in her notes while I was talking about SQL.
Squirrel
That’s actually cute, sometimes I wish I were innocent to the abomination of squeal
Nginx should be pronounced ŋiŋks and rhyme with sphinx
I can’t even begin to know how to pronounce Nginx.
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.
Engine X.
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
The G isn’t silent but there is definitively no vowel between G and N.
So baffling so many of you cannot pronounce Gn with a non-silent G (or Kn with a non-silent K). Both Gnome and GNU are pronounced almost like the equivalent German words:
Knome or go home
Ok buddy for that I’m naming my next distro Squirrel
I feel like if I’m pronouncing any Linux package for the first time, there’s some tongue-in-cheek “um, actually” trap hidden just around the corner for some self-righteous geek to correct you with a big smirk on their face because they get to feel smarter, which I used to be guilty of, but try to cut back on as much as I can these days.
It’s a fun joke at first, but I kind of got tired of it after a while, and just decided that politely educating in context and ignoring it otherwise feels way nicer.
I’ve never met anyone who took this seriously in real life. Like they know what you mean and will joke about the pronunciation. But I read a lot more about these holy wars online.
