goddamnit. You can lead an american to water, but you can’t make them drink. Yes, technically speaking, in english he would pronounce his name as “Lie-nus”. The correct pronunciation of the word that is his name is Li-nus. Some people choose to adapt their name to the audience they are talking to so that the audience has an easier time understanding or saying their name. But the actual way that name is pronounced correctly is different than the manners they are presenting.
Based on how he pronounces his name in his native tongue (and a neighboring country) the correct pronunciation , if you are looking for it, would be Li-nuks. If you want to pronounce it using the compromise he is kindly offering to people who can’t pronounce anything properly, then you should call it Lie-nuks, but then again, you might as well pronounce it however the fuck you want and keep being wrong; the point of asking how you should pronounce something is to improve yourself and the way you say words.
Source : I had my name butchered whenever people try to pronounce it. I go by shortened versions that avoid the “difficult” part.
I don’t whats worse, having your name constantly butchered, or having to deal with a copywrite dispute with the 3 other people in the room with the same name for ownership of it.
I pronounce it the usual way, but in the back of my mind (I keep forgetting to look into it), I’ve wondered if the “I” was originally intended to be pronounced like “Linus”.
In early versions of Linux when manually setting up your sound card, Redhat came with a test audio clip of Linus Torvolds saying “I province Linux as Linux”. Even though it is named after him he did not pronounce it like his name: Ly-nix.
I have absolutely no idea how “Linux” is supposed to be pronounced. True story.
linu as in Linus Torvalds.
X as in unix
from the horse’s (penguin’s?) mouth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfHm6R5le0
…so, “Lie-Nux”?
goddamnit. You can lead an american to water, but you can’t make them drink. Yes, technically speaking, in english he would pronounce his name as “Lie-nus”. The correct pronunciation of the word that is his name is Li-nus. Some people choose to adapt their name to the audience they are talking to so that the audience has an easier time understanding or saying their name. But the actual way that name is pronounced correctly is different than the manners they are presenting.
Based on how he pronounces his name in his native tongue (and a neighboring country) the correct pronunciation , if you are looking for it, would be Li-nuks. If you want to pronounce it using the compromise he is kindly offering to people who can’t pronounce anything properly, then you should call it Lie-nuks, but then again, you might as well pronounce it however the fuck you want and keep being wrong; the point of asking how you should pronounce something is to improve yourself and the way you say words.
Source : I had my name butchered whenever people try to pronounce it. I go by shortened versions that avoid the “difficult” part.
I don’t whats worse, having your name constantly butchered, or having to deal with a copywrite dispute with the 3 other people in the room with the same name for ownership of it.
Here’s a helpful mnemonic: “Jet Li got eczema from radiation poisoning”
Li - as in Jet Li
nu - as in nuculer radiation
x - as in eczema
Li-nu-x
edit: spacing
I pronounce it the usual way, but in the back of my mind (I keep forgetting to look into it), I’ve wondered if the “I” was originally intended to be pronounced like “Linus”.
In early versions of Linux when manually setting up your sound card, Redhat came with a test audio clip of Linus Torvolds saying “I province Linux as Linux”. Even though it is named after him he did not pronounce it like his name: Ly-nix.
Well that settles that!
It’s pronounced like this