Revolution OS

Scott C. Ripley scott-VK/PCEBaDz+N9aS15agKxg at public.gmane.org
Mon Feb 26 14:04:49 UTC 2007



in formal incantations, a proper finnish accent should always be used:
   http://www.safalra.com/science/linguistics/linux-pronunciation/


On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:09:02AM -0500, tleslie wrote:
>> Now most actually don't pronounce it the "proper" way with the "nukes"
>> at the end, so I don't feel to bad with my pronouncation, but what i
>> found interesting, is that Linux did say the name came from
>> the sound of his first name with the "ux" at the end,
>> and do not must pronounce his hame "line - us"
>> not "len  us", so according to Linus, shouldn't
>> it be pronouncd as i do    "line ux" in North America ?
>
> Just because you are in North America is no reason to mispromounce names
> (although it is near imposible to get people to do it right in many
> places since sometimes they simple can't hear the rather big difference,
> given you tend to loose the ability to hear sound distinctions you don't
> actually use). :)
>
> Linus is pronounced something along the lines of Lee-noose, except
> probably a bit shorter vowel sounds.  As for Torvalds, I won't even go
> there.  Of course given Linus is actually an English name it would seem,
> it is quite possible that it is Linus and his family that got the
> pronounciation wrong.
>
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