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Silly mistakeSilly mistakePosted Jan 20, 2005 20:46 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)Parent article: Retail geeks aren't geeky enough (NewsForge)
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Silly mistake Posted Jan 21, 2005 1:22 UTC (Fri) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link] It's kind of like Al Gore's reference to CTRL-DELETE-ALT. It's technically correct, but whenever I hear someone say lye-nucks, I file a mental note that this guys a real newbie. That said, I can remember at least one situation in which I heard someone pronouce it lye-nucks, automatically started to file my mental note, and then realized that he was a well known hacker. If memory serves, I think he was a well known member of the Samba team. So your point is well taken. ;-)
Silly mistake and Political Correctness Posted Jan 21, 2005 22:45 UTC (Fri) by nicku (subscriber, #777) [Link] I called it L-eye-nux for years, just waiting for some PC person to come and correct me, so that I could say something like, "Do you pronounce Microsoft with a US accent just because Bill Gates does?"Sadly, no one had the courage to challenge me, and perhaps many quietly filed me in their mental compartments under "T" for "twit". I've now given in and call it the same as everyone else.
Silly mistake Posted Jan 21, 2005 12:41 UTC (Fri) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link] Since in English (at least US English) Linus is pronounced L-eye-nus, it is natural to pronounce Linux L-eye-nux. It was years before I ever even heard anyone pronounce it - since I learned about Linux from reading about it on the web.
Silly mistake Posted Jan 21, 2005 15:42 UTC (Fri) by minichaz (guest, #630) [Link] Yeah, but I'm not sure we should be taking pronunciation advice from a country that pronounces Iraq as Eye-rack. :)
There's a recording of Linus himself pronouncing Linux somewhere and I think that should be regarded as the definitive pronunciation myself. On the other hand, who cares? :D
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Silly mistake Posted Jan 21, 2005 15:47 UTC (Fri) by jedidiah (guest, #20319) [Link] OTOH, Linux is a successor to Minix.
So you could think of it as Minix with an L.
Silly mistake Posted Jan 21, 2005 16:11 UTC (Fri) by Strike (guest, #861) [Link] That's not pronounced M-eye-nicks?? ;)
The *definitive* answer Posted Jan 21, 2005 14:03 UTC (Fri) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link] When Linux started to get popular (read: when it penetrated my consciousness) there was a popular audio file, versions of which are still available online. They are The Man saying Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as ``Linux''.(Real useful in print, right?) As best I can transliterate it, he says ``LEE nooks'', where `oo' is as in `room'. I wonder if he's been corrupted by life in the U.S.A.? :-)
The *definitive* answer Posted Jan 21, 2005 15:49 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] Real useful in print, right?) As best I can transliterate it, he says ``LEE nooks'', where `oo' is as in `room'.I wonder if he's been corrupted by life in the U.S.A.? :-) Quite possibly. I'm a Finn living in Finland, but in spite of that I have sometimes caught myself and other Finns pronouncing it the "lyenux" way when speaking about Linux in English... But I think it is a bit like saying the names of well-known cities different ways depending on language, a sign of the name getting assimilated in the language.
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