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mariannemarlow

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So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

How do you pronounce them?

I say Line-ux and Deebian

I read that it's more like:

Linnux and Debbian ?

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pidsley

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

Deborah + Ian == "deb" "ian"

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/203525/#p203525

And Linus has said he doesn't really care how people pronounce "Linux" but in his native language his name is pronounced more like Linn-oos... so most people tend to say Linn-ux.

(BTW, I was joking in the other thread about xaos helping other people, and my wrath is not something to be feared )

(edit) -- and I know there are varying opinions on the documentary Revolution OS but I think it's interesting if only to hear Linus and Richard Stallman speak...

Last edited by pidsley (2012-06-15 17:01:47)

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damo

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

How do you pronounce them?

I say Line-ux and Deebian

I read that it's more like:

Linnux and Debbian ?

There's been threads about this in the past here!

Apparently Linus says "Linnux", and Debian comes from "Debbie" and "Ian" ie "Debb-ian"

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mariannemarlow

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

I so hate that my brother was right on how they are said...

GRRRRR.

S'alright, I'm not scared. Besides, XAOS is free to help who he wants to.

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pidsley

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

I so hate that my brother was right on how they are said...

You should have mentioned that up front -- I had no idea sibling rivalry was on the line

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mariannemarlow

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

I so hate that my brother was right on how they are said...

You should have mentioned that up front -- I had no idea sibling rivalry was on the line

I wont tell him, and I'll carry on pronouncing my way

no harm done.

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pidsley

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

Just tell him that Linus doesn't care how you pronounce it (say it like that, like you asked him and now you're on a first-name basis with him)

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mariannemarlow

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

That could work.

Besides my brother sticks with XP, he's only ever tested live systems with Linux, so what does he know?

pah!

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pvsage

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

^ Oh, well, then his opinion is always going to be wrong, even when he's right.

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mariannemarlow

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

That is quite true..

I used to hit him and run to my mum saying he was going to punch me when I was 5 but that is besides the point.

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pidsley

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

^ You gotta give us all the information up front!

"My brother, who only uses XP, says I'm mispronouncing Linux"

Would give an entirely different answer! Like pvsage says, your brother is just wrong on principle.

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mariannemarlow

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

^ You gotta give us all the information up front!

"My brother, who only uses XP, says I'm mispronouncing Linux"

Would give an entirely different answer! Like pvsage says, your brother is just wrong on principle.

Thanks, I'll tell him you said so

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gutterslob

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

How do you pronounce them?

Loon-eex and Les-Bian

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el_koraco

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

How do you pronounce them?

Loon-eex and Les-Bian

Lesbian Nu/Latex

mariannemarlow

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

Weirdoes!

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gutterslob

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

^ Oh C'mon ... don't you remember that old "lunix" joke on Adequacy?

Edit:
You probably don't, so here: http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12 … .2147.html
See no 8.

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tedbell

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

Damn, I've been pronouncing debian wrong too.

Iranon

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

This place seems to attract them, typing from a machine named DebbieDoesDodos.

Anyway, you can't mispronounce Debian, you just forked it without knowing

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gutterslob

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

^ Exactly

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mariannemarlow

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

This place seems to attract them, typing from a machine named DebbieDoesDodos.

Anyway, you can't mispronounce Debian, you just forked it without knowing

Err yes you can and apparently I am not the only one.

In English with one B Debian is Dee-bian

Linux is Line-ux, unless it's Linnux.

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mariannemarlow

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

^ Exactly

Fork off.

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hhh

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

In English with one B Debian is Dee-bian

Off the top of my head: rebel, nebulous, debutante, nebuliser (nebulizer, on this side of the pond)...

Linux is Line-ux, unless it's Linnux.

... finial, linoleum, linen, cinema, sinewy, mineral...

English. What were those Angles thinking?

mariannemarlow

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

Is that rebel or rebel?

to rebel

or

he is a rebel?

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hhh

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

Pronounced to fit the pattern...

mariannemarlow

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Re: So apparently I Pronounce Linux and Debian wrong

and when you rebel ?

he rebelled against his school lessons..

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