I will be dead and buried in the ground before I call nginx "engine x"
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I can't stop pronouncing USAID as u said even after i finally heard it instead of just reading it
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I've always pronounced it "In-jen-iks". I blame Jurassic Park and it's fictional biotech company InGen, but it does kinda also sound like "eugenics". But I dunno man, if you want everyone to pronounce your software a specific way maybe spell it in a manner where the pronunciation is more obvious? Just a thought.
My colleagues were right?!
But of course they pronounce the "ine" as in brine (we are French), which is what really hurts my ears, ugh.
It took a while for me to get it, but it still read ngnix as "n.g. -nix" in my head.
It's, ummm, literally the first thing on the website (nginx.org). Tell me you didn't read the docs without telling me you didn't read the docs
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Wow, I pronounced it N-G-X. Don't know why.
am i the only one who thought it was nyuh-inks
No ^[1.1]^.
EDIT 2025-02-28T10:17Z: Actually, @Aatube@kbin.melroy.org, I was wrong in my initial interpretation ^[1.2]^. So, from what I can tell, you are, in actuality, the only one itt! 😊
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I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind
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- Type: Comment. Author: @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world. Published: 2025-02-28T09:09:54. Accessed: 2025-02-28T10:24Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33487588/16975245.
Nope.
- The thread from which that quote originated was as follows:
TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx" […]
I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind
Do you mean /ɲiɲks/? […]
Nope.
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- Type: Comment. Author: @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world. Published: 2025-02-27T00:18:34Z. Accessed: 2025-02-28T06:38Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33487588/16948274.
Nginx is atrocious. I about have a stroke every time I have to work with it. Caddy is 1000x easier to set up.
Please no! Not another fucking reverse proxy. I can't take it anymore T_T
N-gin? Cortex's henchman???