this is like the dude who invented GIF thinking everyone was going to call it "jiff". it ain't happening, broski.
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.
It is called jiff tho?
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'm not a gnoblin.
I'm not a gnelf.
I'm a gnome. And you've been...
Gnooooommmmmmed!!!
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".
Phonetically it's pronounced "K-D-E-is-superior"
But hey, language is protean. It evolves and flows like a river, daddy-o.
KDE MFs be like, "it's very intuitive." Meanwhile it looks like this:
You are correct. But you are missing the most important button. Right in the middle of that table there is a big red button that says "autopilot - Manage all these things for me and I can play with a few of those other buttons, or all, or even none, and the rest doesn't have to be touched by the user unless they want to"
People who say guh -nome are the same sick psychos who pronounce GIF "Jiff".
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 you’re wondering). She always calls it fresh kids.
Meanwhile, me, a non-native English speaker:
One does not learn English the language, one simply memorises it
I feel like if I’m pronouncing any Linux package for the first time, there’s some tongue-in-cheek “um, actually” 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.
It’s 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.
If it makes anyone feel better, I watched a coworker write “sequel” in her notes while I was talking about SQL.
That's actually cute, sometimes I wish I were innocent to the abomination of squeal
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.
Everyone knows the true pronunciation is ñom!
Hint: :q!
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