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There are big things happening with gnomes (startrek.website)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

GNOME has forever ruined how I want to pronounce "gnome."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What?! They are said differently?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Guh-nome for the software. It's a play on how GNU is guh-noo, which is a play on the pronunciation of the animal called gnu to differentiate it. This is what happens when you let software developers name things. I would know, being a software developer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I never even noticed, because it's g-nome and g-noo in german xD Also took me a while to notice the K in Mortal Kombat

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mortal Ombat!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

N- noo not like that!!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Not a native speaker so I might not get the pronunciation 100% but.. is the gnome an animal?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not quite sure what you're meaning, but I don't know of any animal gnomes. The three gnomes I can think of are:

  • Gnome, a mythical creature from renaissance alchemy

  • garden gnome, a sort a garden ornament

  • GNOME, a unix desktop environment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

There's also D&D gnomes which are similar to the alchemy gnomes, but they lean into steampunk/ primitive industry way harder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's an animal called a gnu, pronounced "noo".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'm not gonna say it's wrong to call the animal a guh-noo, since there is a G there after all, but pretty much every source lists "noo" and "nyoo" as the two pronunciations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Wait, the animal isn't pronounced Guh-new? THE MUPPETS ARE LIARS AND THIEVES!!!!!!

https://youtu.be/cGVdCGxh1IY?si=TVZRAWjRxedgn7WA

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I want to say it as "Ñome"