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Re: Torvalds: "...tell people to use KDE."
« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2005, 07:33:43 am »
Quote from: iago on December 13, 2005, 10:16:08 pm
I pronounce it "Gee nome", personally.  I don't know why, but I thought it sounded better at some point in history, so eh? :)
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Re: Torvalds: "...tell people to use KDE."
« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2005, 05:57:54 pm »
Quote from: Quik on December 13, 2005, 11:46:07 pm
We all do it. I've pronounced your name in my head "e ah go (yago)" for a while. At one point, I thought Spht had an a in it or something, I've always thought of him as "Sphalt (asphalt)". Unsure why, first impressions just stick, especially name pronunciations.
I've always thought "spit" was more appropriate.  :P

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Re: Torvalds: "...tell people to use KDE."
« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2005, 05:59:03 pm »
That's why they made X terminals. :)
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Quote from: CrAz3D on June 30, 2008, 10:38:22 am
I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

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Re: Torvalds: "...tell people to use KDE."
« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2005, 06:02:04 pm »
su :X
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Re: Torvalds: "...tell people to use KDE."
« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2005, 07:28:51 pm »
Quote from: MyndFyre[x86] on December 14, 2005, 05:57:54 pm
I've always thought "spit" was more appropriate.  :P

Here's the problem: a window manager is necessary for Linux to compete with Windows.  However, if you don't learn Linux outside of the window manager, you can't hardly do anything powerful with it.  You'll miss bash scripting, you'll not get the commands, you won't know how to fix it when it breaks.

I've always pronounced his name "Sfit."  How's it supposed to be pronounced?
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Re: Torvalds: "...tell people to use KDE."
« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2005, 08:05:51 pm »
It's pronounced "Meow"
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Re: Torvalds: "...tell people to use KDE."
« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2005, 08:08:57 pm »
Quote from: rabbit on December 14, 2005, 08:05:51 pm
It's pronounced "Meow"

Haha.  I think picking names that are impossible to understand how to pronounce by the laws of language (unless you make it obvious that it's an acronym or something) is mean! :(
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Re: Torvalds: "...tell people to use KDE."
« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2005, 09:59:30 pm »
I've always pronounced it "spit".
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Quote from: CrAz3D on June 30, 2008, 10:38:22 am
I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Torvalds: "...tell people to use KDE."
« Reply #23 on: December 14, 2005, 10:26:59 pm »
"Meow" is a link, btw.
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Re: Torvalds: "...tell people to use KDE."
« Reply #24 on: December 14, 2005, 10:42:27 pm »
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Re: Torvalds: "...tell people to use KDE."
« Reply #25 on: December 15, 2005, 04:25:12 pm »
It was just FYI :)
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Re: Torvalds: "...tell people to use KDE."
« Reply #26 on: December 15, 2005, 04:41:54 pm »
I pronounce spht: Spit and pronounce iago: eye-a-go
I pronounce sidoh: Sihdow.
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Re: Torvalds: "...tell people to use KDE."
« Reply #27 on: December 15, 2005, 04:58:45 pm »
Quote from: Warrior[x86] on December 15, 2005, 04:41:54 pm
I pronounce spht: Spit and pronounce iago: eye-a-go
I pronounce sidoh: Sihdow.

I initially pronounced iago "eye - aye - go," but I've realized that was wrong and now see it as "yah - go."

Spht seems to be ss - fit to me, but I don't know.  It's a weird name.

I'm actually unsure of the correct pronounciation of "Sidoh," since it's not a real word or name, but I say "Sigh - Dough."  "Sid - Oh" works fine too, though. :)
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