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If they'd wanted us to call Itchio Itch, they shouldn't have called it Itchio.
Similarly, if they'd wanted us to call Gnome Ganome, they shouldn't have called it Gnome.
Maybe English should just get rid of the stupid "the first consonant is silent when two consonants form the beginning of a word" rule tbf.
It's a skill issue to mispronounce loan words (like gnome, pterodactyl or psychology).
English is a hideous mongrel of a language.
I was already an adult when I learned that "salmon" is supposed to be pronounced as "sammon".
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If you donβt pronounce the p in pterodactyl or psychiatrist then lose my number
If I start pronouncing them, can I get your number?
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Snail, small, three, press, change. I could keep going.
I've never heard of that rule. There are a few combos that are basically always that way though: pt, gn, and kn come to mind.
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People who say guh -nome are the same sick psychos who pronounce GIF "Jiff".
Knice to meat you
Found the KDE user!
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Making a fork of GNOME called GGNOME fr
my brain is ruined. my head voice said "Gee-Guh-Nome"
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I use KDE because I never want to have to worry about how to pronounce it. There is no ambiguity with KDE, it's just K D E
Guess Iβll pronounce it Kh Duh from now on!
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I feel like if Iβm pronouncing any Linux package for the first time, thereβs some tongue-in-cheek βum, actuallyβ 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.
Itβs 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.
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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"
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Meanwhile, me, a non-native English speaker:
One does not learn English the language, one simply memorises it
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If it makes anyone feel better, I watched a coworker write βsequelβ in her notes while I was talking about SQL.
That's actually cute, sometimes I wish I were innocent to the abomination of squeal
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Everyone knows the true pronunciation is Γ±om!
We native speakers of German intuitively pronounce an audible "g" followed by an audible "n" when reading "GNOME" and find it weird that the ordinary word "gnome" is pronounced with a silent "g" in English. The cognate in our first language is "Gnom", pronounced with two consonants in the beginning, like the desktop environment.
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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
Today Iβm learning this and now I learn GNU is supposed to be pronounced βguh-NEWβ
Obviously... since their logo and spelling is the same as the animal... pronounced "noo".
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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
That's the whole gimmick behind GNU projects... You pronounce the G. Because that's how you pronounce GNU.
Nah I just say gnu
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I'm not a gnoblin.
I'm not a gnelf.
I'm a gnome. And you've been...
Gnooooommmmmmed!!!
Back when video games had more imagination than pixels, there was a mech simulator game called G-Nome. Which was the name of the enemy, pronounced "Genome."
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guh-new is not unix folks...
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