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Everything Else => Desktop Operating Systems Issues => Zaurus General Forums => Archived Forums => Linux Issues => Topic started by: M1k3st3r on November 29, 2005, 03:37:15 pm
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Hey y'all, this is my 1st post and I figured I'd make a poll to see if I've been pronouncing the word "Linux" correctly. I've been calling it "Line-ooks" my whole life.
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Hey y'all, this is my 1st post and I figured I'd make a poll to see if I've been pronouncing the word "Linux" correctly. I've been calling it "Line-ooks" my whole life.
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ooks as in pool?
ucks as in duck?
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http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/t...-says-linux.mp3 (http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/torvalds-says-linux.mp3)
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ooks as in pool?
ucks as in duck?
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Yeah, I guess it would help if i put up some sort of pronouncation key...
Well I'm thinking of "ooks" as in "shook".
EDIT: Thanks Cagilaba!!
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ooks as in pool?
ucks as in duck?
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Yeah, I guess it would help if i put up some sort of pronouncation key...
Well I'm thinking of "ooks" as in "shook".
EDIT: Thanks Cagilaba!!
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Hmm, doesn't help much because I pronounce duck and shook the same apart from the first bit ).
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"Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as 'Linux' "
Download the avi (~3 meg)
I Personally say Linux rhyming with the English word cynics. That might only be because I am so cynical.
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/saylinux.htm (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/saylinux.htm)
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I used to pronounce line-ucks along time ago, but now I it's linn-ucks
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Check out www.onelook.com for lots of dictionary entries for Linux, several of which link to pronunciation audio or information. Linus himself pronounces it in a Scandanavian way (LEE-nux) that is different from anyone else I've ever heard in English. Judging from the references, no one ought to consider the "cynics" or "ducks" versions wrong. You hear both a lot, in the US at least. Anyone who says there is one "right" pronunciation -- whatever they might think it to be -- is wrong.
"Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as 'Linux' "
Download the avi (~3 meg)
I Personally say Linux rhyming with the English word cynics. That might only be because I am so cynical.
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/saylinux.htm (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/saylinux.htm)
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I, and everyone I know who talks about it, says Linux like "linnicks" (rhymes with cynics).
Just my personal experience.
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We should probably find a GNU way to pronounce it.
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We should probably find a GNU way to pronounce it.
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LiGNUx?
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I figure since Linus pronounces it as rhyming with his name in Finnish ("...my name is Lee-noos Torvalds, and I pronounce Lee-nooks as Lee-nooks"), I just "Americanize" the OS the same way as the name ("Line-us"->"Line-ucks"). That way, I'm wrong, but in a predictable way (heh).
-->VPutz
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Me, I say.....Lin-x
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WOW... you really really dug this one up...
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I figure since Linus pronounces it as rhyming with his name in Finnish ("...my name is Lee-noos Torvalds, and I pronounce Lee-nooks as Lee-nooks"), I just "Americanize" the OS the same way as the name ("Line-us"->"Line-ucks"). That way, I'm wrong, but in a predictable way (heh).
-->VPutz
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Just for the record, Linus native language is Swedish, and that's how he pronounces his name (with a Finlandian accent but it's still Swedish) . I think it is about 8% of the people in Finland that speak Swedish as their first language.
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Linus Torvalds has the answer! (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1061159908534146317&q=Linus+torvalds)
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Linus Torvalds has the answer! (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1061159908534146317&q=Linus+torvalds)
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You're the man. (after Linus, that is)
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How does one not know how to pronouce Linux anywy?
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How does one not know how to pronounce Linux anyway?
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Here's my theory on technology pronunciations:
#1 A lot of geeks (including myself) don't communicate with other geeks (via tongue & ear) so we never actually hear all the words that we type/read.
#2 The *NIX community is creative in a wonderfully warped way and takes pleasure in being a bit eccentric and obscure.
#3 The world is a big place and there are many languages and accents. A written word can be pronounced many, many ways.
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Linucks...that is how I pronounce it.
and real geeks never talk to each other face to face, they have a hacking competition. I remember the time when i use to attack my neighbors pc and he be shutting down my pc all the time remotely. He bipassed my mom in those days and used a floppy to enable netbios and he shut my pc down when he detected my attacks. It took me a while to figure this out cuz I am so dumb when it comes to stuff like this.
so....so funny!
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and here i was thinking i was cool because i would take a snapshot of a windows computer (print screen) and make it the desktop wallpaper, move the start bar to the right of the sccreen and make it as small as posible
repeat 20 times
those computers were out of commision for 3 weeks until they gave up and reinstalled
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so funny