▲ 932 ▼ My hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOME (media.piefed.world) submitted 9 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 291 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] philophilsaurus@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago (1 child) And then I’m out there pronouncing it G-Nome… permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago (1 child) I was hoping I wasn’t alone. I pronounced it genome for years before some neck beard took me to task for it. They also were mad at me for pronouncing CentOS like DOS (centahs rather than cent oh ess). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] antimongo@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 child) I also used to pronounce Gnome this way. I’ll add I used to say “deb eye ann”, for Debian And used to say “uh lie us”, for alias I didn’t have a lot of people to talk about Linux with lol permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago To be fair, Debian is a portmanteau of Debra and Ian so most people don’t pronounce it the way Ian Murdock intended. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago (1 child) I was hoping I wasn’t alone. I pronounced it genome for years before some neck beard took me to task for it. They also were mad at me for pronouncing CentOS like DOS (centahs rather than cent oh ess). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] antimongo@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 child) I also used to pronounce Gnome this way. I’ll add I used to say “deb eye ann”, for Debian And used to say “uh lie us”, for alias I didn’t have a lot of people to talk about Linux with lol permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago To be fair, Debian is a portmanteau of Debra and Ian so most people don’t pronounce it the way Ian Murdock intended. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] antimongo@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 child) I also used to pronounce Gnome this way. I’ll add I used to say “deb eye ann”, for Debian And used to say “uh lie us”, for alias I didn’t have a lot of people to talk about Linux with lol permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago To be fair, Debian is a portmanteau of Debra and Ian so most people don’t pronounce it the way Ian Murdock intended. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago To be fair, Debian is a portmanteau of Debra and Ian so most people don’t pronounce it the way Ian Murdock intended. permalink fedilink source parent
