Why Linux is portrayed as a Penguin?

  • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, but should you pronounce it Gee-en-yoo or Guh-no͞o? Huh? That REALLY tells me where your allegiances lay.

    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      91·
      1 year ago

      I honestly didn’t know people pronounced it any other way than gee-en-you. It’s in all caps, so I figured you said each letter.

      Now that I think more about it though, I don’t know why I assumed that. I don’t say AWOL as ay-doubleyou-oh-el. I don’t say SNAFU as es-en-ay-ef-you.

      I’m just going to call it the OS for yaks from now on and never think about it again.

      • thantik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        1 year ago

        This is how I am with “GUI”…I just call it Gee-you-eye. I finally went to a class on the subject for real and some people were calling it a “Gooey”…and I…no. Just fucking no. It’s not a “Gooey”.

        • griefreeze@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’ve spent nearly 20 years in academia and professional software development and have never heard anyone pronounce it Gee-you-eye, funnily enough.

          Gonna try it this week and see how many people look at me like I’m crazy.

          Edit: spelling

            • griefreeze@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 year ago

              I think the distinction is kinda pointless anyways. As long as the information is conveyed I don’t really care about acronym/initialism pronounciation.

        • Wojwo@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          I had textbooks in college (25 years ago) that always had little blurbs about the acronyms and their pronunciation. GUI, we were instructed, was pronounced gooey. WYSIWYG is wiz-ee-wig, etc. It was on tests IIRC.

    • Murdoc@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 year ago

      Like much of my early language skills, I learned it from Sesame Street:
      “Remember: No g-news is good g-news with Gary Gnu!” 😛