[PLUG] GNU hats make good advertising!
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
Thu Dec 11 19:24:02 UTC 2003
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On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:19:01PM -0800, Kyle Accardi wrote:
> What I'd like to see is a technical pronunciation key. My webster's says
> to pronounce the animal (using chars I can't type here) "new". I always
> pronounce the software project as "gnew". Where does RMS put the clicks
> and what do they sound like?
"Hello, my name is Richard Stallman, and I prounounce GNU, GNU."
> A long time ago I said "line-ux" just because I preferred the long vowel.
> But when I met other users face-to-face I adopted the correct form "lin-ux".
I recall Linus Torvalds opinion is that it's "LEE-nooks" but then when
he started travelling stateside people were correcting *his*
pronunciation and he just went with it. If you look at the history of
Linux, Linus's actions say he doesn't care that it even has a name,
much less how you say it. Linus didn't even bother naming it, the FTP
site he used originally did because the ftpmaster felt it needed a
name.
- --
.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca>
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`. `'` proud Debian admin and user
`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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