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The Picard Maneuver to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

There are big things happening with gnomes

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There are big things happening with gnomes

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The Picard Maneuver to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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  • @jawa21@startrek.website
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    16•1 year ago

    GNOME has forever ruined how I want to pronounce “gnome.”

    • pacoboyd
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      14•1 year ago

      What?! They are said differently?

      • wander1236
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        Guh-nome for the software. It’s a play on how GNU is guh-noo, which is a play on the pronunciation of the animal called gnu to differentiate it. This is what happens when you let software developers name things. I would know, being a software developer.

        • @onion@feddit.de
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          I never even noticed, because it’s g-nome and g-noo in german xD Also took me a while to notice the K in Mortal Kombat

          • @toynbee@lemmy.world
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            5•1 year ago

            Mortal Ombat!

            • @onion@feddit.de
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              2•1 year ago

              N- noo not like that!!!

        • @SkippingRelax@lemmy.world
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          4•1 year ago

          Not a native speaker so I might not get the pronunciation 100% but… is the gnome an animal?

          • jan teli
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            I’m not quite sure what you’re meaning, but I don’t know of any animal gnomes. The three gnomes I can think of are:

            • Gnome, a mythical creature from renaissance alchemy

            • garden gnome, a sort a garden ornament

            • GNOME, a unix desktop environment

            • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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              1•1 year ago

              There’s also D&D gnomes which are similar to the alchemy gnomes, but they lean into steampunk/ primitive industry way harder.

          • wander1236
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            3•1 year ago

            There’s an animal called a gnu, pronounced “noo”.

            • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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              1•1 year ago

              The Muppets disagree.

              https://youtu.be/cGVdCGxh1IY?si=TVZRAWjRxedgn7WA

              • wander1236
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                2•1 year ago

                I’m not gonna say it’s wrong to call the animal a guh-noo, since there is a G there after all, but pretty much every source lists “noo” and “nyoo” as the two pronunciations.

        • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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          3•1 year ago

          Wait, the animal isn’t pronounced Guh-new? THE MUPPETS ARE LIARS AND THIEVES!!!

          https://youtu.be/cGVdCGxh1IY?si=TVZRAWjRxedgn7WA

    • @niktemadur@lemmy.world
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      1•1 year ago

      I want to say it as “Ñome”

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