The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoMy hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOMEmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square277linkfedilinkarrow-up1882arrow-down111
arrow-up1871arrow-down1imageMy hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOMEmedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square277linkfedilink
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoI 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).
minus-squareantimongo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days agoI 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
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoTo be fair, Debian is a portmanteau of Debra and Ian so most people don’t pronounce it the way Ian Murdock intended.
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).
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
To be fair, Debian is a portmanteau of Debra and Ian so most people don’t pronounce it the way Ian Murdock intended.