My lead dev used to pronounce it njinx and I always needed some time to realize what he's talking about.
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My colleagues were right?!
But of course they pronounce the "ine" as in brine (we are French), which is what really hurts my ears, ugh.
Wait till you find out about quay
I'm glad there's pronunciations provided, because to me it looks like it should sound like a slur.
En-eh hinks (with heavy Spanish accent)
I laughed out loud when I first learned that imgur is supposed to be pronounced as "imager'... well you fuckin chose the wrong combination of letters for that didn't ya
Am I missing something? I've always pronounced it "imager". How else would you pronounce it?
as it's spelled: im gur.
It's one thing to name it imgr, but putting a fucking u after the g makes it a hard g in literally every instance. the letter u is the reason the g is pronounced as a hard g in words that otherwise wouldn't need a u: fragile / guile, digest / guest, etc.
as it's spelled: im gur.
"I'm gur"?
Tony... Is that you?
it's spelled img - ur, as in img or the shortening of image in every context. You can't shorten image any other way.
it's spelled img - ur
no, it's spelled imgur. I know what img stands for which is why I said it would be one thing to call it imgr. the u doesn't make sense and it hardens the g. it's funny that you talk about how it's customary that img stands for image but you act like 'ur' is also a thing by itself.
well it is, just not in that way. if your img-ur breakup made any sense for pronouncing img as if it's independent then why not consider what ur stands for? it's a shortening of your or you're. so why not pronounce it image your? because it's bullshit and the spelling is ridiculous.
1000% I say gif too, like gift. If you wanted it pronounced like “jiff” then you should have spelled it with a J.
I flew from Jermany to Tanzania and saw some jeriatric jiraffes.
I say it "Jif" because:
- That's what the format's creator named it.
- It's weird, but "soft G" is a thing and acronyms and the only "rule" for pronouncing acronyms is "it's easy to say".
- It annoys people that are way too invested in it. Sure, it's immature -- but it's low stakes and not particularly "shitty". I enjoy it and you only YOLO once.
Or with a Đ.
Choosy moms choose Dzhif.
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Nginx is atrocious. I about have a stroke every time I have to work with it. Caddy is 1000x easier to set up.
Please no! Not another fucking reverse proxy. I can't take it anymore T_T
N-gin? Cortex's henchman???
I like to pronounce it as nginks like fucking inks. Yes, with a ng sound in the beginning.
Like the Vietnamese name? So... "Wininks" ?
Yes, like the Vietnamese name "Nguyen", but not like "wininks". The best I could describe it is as a hybrid between "ninks" and "ginks". Pronounce the first consonant with the back of your tongue while keeping the image of pronouncing an "n" sound in your head.
Now you'll tell me it's not pronounced Hap Roxy!
I think software name pronunciation discussions are so hilariously absurd that I sometimes purposefully vocalise nginx as “Nuhh Ginks” just to put a hat on it
I pronounce k8s as k-eights sometimes on purpose to gauge the reactions
Wait do you mean “kates” or “Kay-Eights”? I think either makes sense and I wouldn’t raise an eyebrow
If you said it like “Kuhh-Eights” I would probably laugh
En Guh Inks
similar problem with kubectl
It's obviously kubecontrol! I will die on this hill.
Also, Containerd ... Not helped by the cli nerdctl.
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Thank you for saving me from future embarrassment.
Or just becoming terminal "um actually"-er like I've become with epoch
I split the middle with en-JIN-iks (which is how I heard it said long before I saw it written)
I've never heard it pronounced any other way than "engine x".
I've never heard it pronounced. Which is why I also thought it was "n-jinx"
I started using it around 2006, and even back then it listed the pronunciation on the site.
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https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/english.ogg (from back when many english speakers were still insistent that the i in Linux should be pronounced "eye")
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