josefo@leminal.space to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoThe "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.message-squaremessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up1146arrow-down130
arrow-up1116arrow-down1message-squareThe "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.josefo@leminal.space to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square100fedilink
minus-squarertxn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up93arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoWell, ackshually… tl;dw: the Swedish and Finnish pronunciations use the same “i” as “Linux”, but Torvalds doesn’t care if people use the English one.
minus-squarejosefo@leminal.spaceOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·10 months agoThat was very enlightening, the Spanish pronunciation is actually more close to that than the English one, so I feel very validated as an Spanish speaker. Thank you. Also didn’t knew that he wasn’t from an English speaking country.
minus-squarePipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoHere is an alternative Piped link(s): Well, ackshually… Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube. I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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tl;dw: the Swedish and Finnish pronunciations use the same “i” as “Linux”, but Torvalds doesn’t care if people use the English one.
That was very enlightening, the Spanish pronunciation is actually more close to that than the English one, so I feel very validated as an Spanish speaker. Thank you. Also didn’t knew that he wasn’t from an English speaking country.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Well, ackshually…
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.