The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoMy hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOMEmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square303linkfedilinkarrow-up1928
arrow-up1928imageMy hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOMEmedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square303linkfedilink
minus-squareserendepity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·edit-25 days agoIf gif is pronounced gif, then gnome should be pronounced gnome
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-25 days agoGi gives the g a j sound. Like gist, gibberish, giraffe, giant do at least that one is easy to pick up on.
minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-24 days agoI love how you state that as a fact as if words like give, gift, gill, gibbon, giddy, etc don’t exist. please tell me you call it JIT-HUB.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 days agoYou will also note that the pronunciation of gif is debated despite me saying it’s easy to pick up on.
minus-squareserendepity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 days agoIt was a tongue-in-cheek response. The English alphabet doesn’t convey pronunciation.
minus-squareenbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agothat’s evil gnome, if written in Java
Jnome, like gif.
If gif is pronounced gif, then gnome should be pronounced gnome
Gi gives the g a j sound. Like gist, gibberish, giraffe, giant do at least that one is easy to pick up on.
I love how you state that as a fact as if words like give, gift, gill, gibbon, giddy, etc don’t exist.
please tell me you call it JIT-HUB.
I do now.
Hi Jinny
You will also note that the pronunciation of gif is debated despite me saying it’s easy to pick up on.
It was a tongue-in-cheek response. The English alphabet doesn’t convey pronunciation.
Gift
Like the peanut butter?
Choosy moms choose gif.
that’s evil gnome, if written in Java