[Gllug] Working with Linux

[Vincent AE Scott]

David Damerell(damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk)@Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:40:35PM +0000:
> On , 7 Jan 2002, John Hearns wrote:
> >On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 15:19, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> >>>That being one of three perfectly justifiable pronunciations. What's
> >>>your point?
> >>Not to start a flame war, but the point being, it was always called
> >>Linn-ucks. It was only when the ignorant masses became involved that
> >Before the flame war does break out,
> >the question is well answered here.
> >http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/
> 
> I think everyone's heard that, haven't they?
> 
> Linus's pronunciation of it (then) is certainly not 'Linnux', it's
> more like 'Leenoox'. So that's one, but hard to do if you're not
> Scandinavian.
> 
> 'Linnux' I think is meant to be an approximation to 'Leenoox' for
> English speakers. That's two.
> 
> 'Lienux' stems from the fact that while the name 'Linus' is pronounced
> 'Leenoos' in Finland, it's pronounced 'Lienus' in English-speaking
> countries - and, indeed, that sound does make it clear that it's meant
> to be a derivative of his name.
> 
> So, no, that sound doesn't answer the question - unless the answer is
> that any of 'Leenoox', 'Linnux' and 'Lienux' is OK.

it doesnt really matter how you pronounce it, so long as the sentiment
and the message is succesfully transferred.


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