The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoMy hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOMEmedia.piefed.worldexternal-linkmessage-square302fedilinkarrow-up1920arrow-down112
arrow-up1908arrow-down1external-linkMy hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOMEmedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square302fedilink
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoThe 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laQX5ZtyB4E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BIZ3id7GV8
minus-squareThe Octonaut@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 days agoOk buddy for that I’m naming my next distro Squirrel
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:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laQX5ZtyB4E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BIZ3id7GV8
Ok buddy for that I’m naming my next distro Squirrel
Knome or go home