this is like the dude who invented GIF thinking everyone was going to call it "jiff". it ain't happening, broski.
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The G stands for Jraphics
The format was originally designed to interchange animated palettised depictions of giraffes, so Giraffic Interchange Format made sense. They just changed the acronym when they realised that by storing different colours in the palette, you could depict things other than giraffes.
Giraffic Interchange Format made sense
In no world does that collection of words ring true, regardless of context.
you could depict things other than giraffes
But why would you?
GPUs were originally created to render giraffes faster, hence the name. The fact that they're also useful for gaming are as coincidental as their usefulness for crypto mining and LLMs.
A gif is just the output format after running loads of OpenGiraffeLib code through a GPU.
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Yeah, just like the U stands for oonderwater in SCUBA, or the P stands for potographics in JPG!
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If they'd wanted us to call Itchio Itch, they shouldn't have called it Itchio.
Similarly, if they'd wanted us to call Gnome Ganome, they shouldn't have called it Gnome.
Maybe English should just get rid of the stupid "the first consonant is silent when two consonants form the beginning of a word" rule tbf.
It's a skill issue to mispronounce loan words (like gnome, pterodactyl or psychology).
English is a hideous mongrel of a language.
I was already an adult when I learned that "salmon" is supposed to be pronounced as "sammon".
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Making a fork of GNOME called GGNOME fr
my brain is ruined. my head voice said "Gee-Guh-Nome"
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People who say guh -nome are the same sick psychos who pronounce GIF "Jiff".
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I use KDE because I never want to have to worry about how to pronounce it. There is no ambiguity with KDE, it's just K D E
It's pronounced kiddy.
Just KDEing..
My wife works at a bakery that uses an ordering system called FreshKDS (kitchen display system in case youβre wondering). She always calls it fresh kids.
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I feel like if Iβm pronouncing any Linux package for the first time, thereβs some tongue-in-cheek βum, actuallyβ trap hidden just around the corner for some self-righteous geek to correct you with a big smirk on their face because they get to feel smarter, which I used to be guilty of, but try to cut back on as much as I can these days.
Itβs a fun joke at first, but I kind of got tired of it after a while, and just decided that politely educating in context and ignoring it otherwise feels way nicer.
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Phonetically it's pronounced "K-D-E-is-superior"
But hey, language is protean. It evolves and flows like a river, daddy-o.
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If it makes anyone feel better, I watched a coworker write βsequelβ in her notes while I was talking about SQL.
That's actually cute, sometimes I wish I were innocent to the abomination of squeal
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We native speakers of German intuitively pronounce an audible "g" followed by an audible "n" when reading "GNOME" and find it weird that the ordinary word "gnome" is pronounced with a silent "g" in English. The cognate in our first language is "Gnom", pronounced with two consonants in the beginning, like the desktop environment.
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Yohohoho!
I'm not a KDE, I'm not XFCE, I'm not LTQt, I'm not a Hyprland, I'm not a Cinnamon, I'm a Guh-Nome! And you have been Guh-Nomed!
borks your Linux
I don't know if I've had to say Gnome out loud before to another human person. I would go with the garden variety gnome myself.
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Today Iβm learning this and now I learn GNU is supposed to be pronounced βguh-NEWβ
Obviously... since their logo and spelling is the same as the animal... pronounced "noo".
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That's the whole gimmick behind GNU projects... You pronounce the G. Because that's how you pronounce GNU.
Nah I just say gnu
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