The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoMy hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOMEmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square299fedilinkarrow-up1913arrow-down112
arrow-up1901arrow-down1imageMy hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOMEmedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square299fedilink
minus-squareenbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agothat’s evil gnome, if written in Java
minus-squareserendepity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·edit-22 days agoIf gif is pronounced gif, then gnome should be pronounced gnome
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·edit-22 days agoGi gives the g a j sound. Like gist, gibberish, giraffe, giant do at least that one is easy to pick up on.
minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 day agoI love how you state that as a fact as if words like give, gift, gill, gibbon, giddy, etc don’t exist. please tell me you call it JIT-HUB.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoYou will also note that the pronunciation of gif is debated despite me saying it’s easy to pick up on.
minus-squareserendepity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoIt was a tongue-in-cheek response. The English alphabet doesn’t convey pronunciation.
Jnome, like gif.
that’s evil gnome, if written in Java
If gif is pronounced gif, then gnome should be pronounced gnome
Gi gives the g a j sound. Like gist, gibberish, giraffe, giant do at least that one is easy to pick up on.
I love how you state that as a fact as if words like give, gift, gill, gibbon, giddy, etc don’t exist.
please tell me you call it JIT-HUB.
I do now.
Hi Jinny
You will also note that the pronunciation of gif is debated despite me saying it’s easy to pick up on.
Gift
It was a tongue-in-cheek response. The English alphabet doesn’t convey pronunciation.
Like the peanut butter?
Choosy moms choose gif.