I Have never met anyone of importance in the Linux Hierarchy, and am certainly not one to judge anyone by such a trivial criterion as to how they pronounce Linux. Personally I pronounce it "Not Microsoft" but then I have no expertise to back me up.<br> rich ;-)<br>
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Date: 30/06/2009 20:22 <br>
To: "Kent Linux User Group - General Topics"<kent@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>
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<div>Here here, Mike. No one could refute that Linus the character in "Peanuts" is pronounced "Lee-nus".</div>
<div><span title="Pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">When I met Linus at the Kernel summit in Cambridge with Karl Lattimer (not to be confused with "nice Karl") Linus and all other members of the "Git" group pronounced Linux as Lee-nux. </span><span title="Pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">Sorry KLUGGERS, but as far as I am concerned, when I hear a person pronounce "Lie-nux" alarm bells go off and I think that this person is from one of these camps:</span></div>
<div><span title="Pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">a) secretly has a vested interest in using Micro$haft crapware</span></div>
<div><span title="Pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">b) has only just discovered Linux</span></div>
<div><span title="Pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">c) has clearly never met Linus nor knows who he is</span></div>
<div><span title="Pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">d) is a newbie</span></div>
<div><span title="Pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">e) is a half-hearted Linux user (with some very very notable exceptions)</span></div>
<div><span title="Pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">f) is a Linux guru genius, but just prefers to pronounce is differently in the spirit of being anti-establishment... and pedantic</span></div>
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<div><span title="Pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">I hope this rant does not spawn a mass debate, since I already have RSI from too much wrist action. Ahem.</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/30 Mike Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@tandem.f9.co.uk" target="_blank">mike@tandem.f9.co.uk</a>></span><br>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><br>There are only a few things certain about pronunciation in English. One<br>is that spelling and pronunciation are only vaguely related. Diversity<br>
is a great thing: so long as communication is successful.<br><br>I note that there are also alternative pronunciations of Debian: with<br>Deebian and Debbian being the most common, and Ubuntu seems to drift<br>between Youbuntu and Oobuntu, depending on how authentically African the<br>
speaker wishes to sound.<br><br>There is a long tradition of the English using pronunciation as a<br>distinguishing identifier of class, education and origin. Thus it is<br>that a northerner will declare that has home is his kassle, whereas a<br>
southerner's home is his cahsle. Both will think they are right and the<br>other wrong, which gives each the opportunity to feel in some way<br>superior to the other.<br><br>Personally I choose the pronunciation favoured by Linus Torvalds, simply<br>
because he created the word. I don't look down on people who prefer<br>another pronunciation and will happily have a conversation pronouncing<br>it one way with someone who pronounces it another. The people I do sneer<br>
at are the ones like the owner of our local copy shop. When I said that<br>I use Linnux she looked confused and then said 'oh you mean Lynux'. But<br>then - she is fat, sweaty and ugly as well as ignorant :)<br>
<br>MikeE<br>
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