The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agoMy hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOMEmedia.piefed.worldexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
arrow-up19arrow-down1external-linkMy hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOMEmedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 days agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squareCevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·17 days agoIf they’d wanted us to call Itchio Itch, they shouldn’t have called it Itchio. Similarly, if they’d wanted us to call Gnome Ganome, they shouldn’t have called it Gnome.
minus-squareyetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 days agoMaybe English should just get rid of the stupid “the first consonant is silent when two consonants form the beginning of a word” rule tbf. It’s a skill issue to mispronounce loan words (like gnome, pterodactyl or psychology).
minus-squareCevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 days agoEnglish is a hideous mongrel of a language.
If they’d wanted us to call Itchio Itch, they shouldn’t have called it Itchio.
Similarly, if they’d wanted us to call Gnome Ganome, they shouldn’t have called it Gnome.
Maybe English should just get rid of the stupid “the first consonant is silent when two consonants form the beginning of a word” rule tbf.
It’s a skill issue to mispronounce loan words (like gnome, pterodactyl or psychology).
English is a hideous mongrel of a language.