how do you pronounce gnus?

how do you pronounce gnus?

[Bud Rogers]

I know, it's silly.  But when I want to tell someone about gnus, I stumble
over the name because I'm not sure how it should be pronounced.  It usually
comes out approximately like the English word 'noose'.

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Bud Rogers <budr@tanet.net>
I wore khaki when khaki wasn't cool.

Re: how do you pronounce gnus?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Bud Rogers <budr@tanet.net> writes:

> I know, it's silly.  But when I want to tell someone about gnus, I
> stumble over the name because I'm not sure how it should be
> pronounced.  It usually comes out approximately like the English
> word 'noose'.

I pronounce it gnooze (as `nooze', but with a `g' in front; g as in
`gun'.)

I have heard an American pronnounce it as `news', but it's incorrect;
that's how Masanobu Umeda envisioned the pronounciation of the
original GNUS.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
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devise and apply Turing tests to objects of its own creation.

Re: how do you pronounce gnus?

[Jason R Mastaler]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> I pronounce it gnooze (as `nooze', but with a `g' in front; g as in
> `gun'.)
> 
> I have heard an American pronnounce it as `news', but it's incorrect;

I've also heard it erroneously pronounced `gee-news'.  I'm surprised
this subject isn't covered in the FAQ or Manual.

Re: how do you pronounce gnus?

[Bud Rogers]

Jason R Mastaler <jason@4b.org> writes:

> I've also heard it erroneously pronounced `gee-news'.  I'm surprised
> this subject isn't covered in the FAQ or Manual.

Hehe.  Like the excited young hacker who started telling me about the
genome project.  It was a bit before I realized he was talking about GNOME.

-- 

Bud Rogers <budr@tanet.net>
I wore khaki when khaki wasn't cool.

Re: how do you pronounce gnus?

[SL Baur]

Jason R Mastaler <jason@4b.org> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
>> I pronounce it gnooze (as `nooze', but with a `g' in front; g as in
>> `gun'.)
>> 
>> I have heard an American pronnounce it as `news', but it's incorrect;

> I've also heard it erroneously pronounced `gee-news'.

That pronunciation is quite wrong, because there used to be a
competitor to GNUS called `gnews'.

> I'm surprised this subject isn't covered in the FAQ or Manual.

I'll bear the blame for the Gnus FAQ.  It *was* covered in the manual
at the time and that's why I never put it in the FAQ.

Quoting directly from the Gnus-5.0.13 manual:

  The recommended pronunciation of the name this program is "ding
  guh-noose", with "ding" being half-sung in a loud, high-pitched voice,
  and "guh-noose" being grumbled and a disaffected fashion.  Any
  irritation and/or damage this name may cause you is not the
  responsibility of the author, even though you might like to strangle him
  for the stupid idea.

  If you want to investigate the person responsible for this outrage, you
  can point your (feh!) web browser to
  @file{http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/}.  This is also the primary
  distribution point for the new and spiffy versions of Gnus, also know as
  The Site That Destroys Newsrcs And Drives People Mad.

  During the first extended alpha period of develpment, the new Gnus was
  called "(ding) Gnus".  @dfn{(ding)}, is, of course, short for @dfn{ding
  is not Gnus}, which is a total and utter lie, but who cares? (Besides,
  the "Gnus" in this abbreviation should probably be pronounced "news" as
  UMEDA intended, which makes it a more appropriate name, don't you
  think?)

  In any case, after spending all that energy with coming up with a new
  and spiffy name, we decided that the name was @emph{too} spiffy, so we
  renamamed it back again to "Gnus".  But in mixed case.  "Gnus" vs.
  @sc{gnus}.  New vs. old.

Re: how do you pronounce gnus?

[Andrew J Cosgriff]

>>>>> "sb" == SL Baur <steve@vmailer.xemacs.org> writes:

>> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
>>> I pronounce it gnooze (as `nooze', but with a `g' in front; g as in
>>> `gun'.)
>>> 
>>> I have heard an American pronnounce it as `news', but it's incorrect;

Speaking of pronunciation, I asked my Croation girlfriend how to
pronounce Hrvoje, so I've got a slightly better idea now (having heard
it from a native), although I'm not sure I could manage to say it
properly myself yet :)

Hrvoje dude, maybe you should record yourself saying your name (much
like the one with Linus saying his name and how he pronounces Linux) ?

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Re: how do you pronounce gnus?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Andrew J Cosgriff <ajc@bing.wattle.id.au> writes:

> Speaking of pronunciation, I asked my Croation girlfriend how to
> pronounce Hrvoje, so I've got a slightly better idea now (having
> heard it from a native), although I'm not sure I could manage to say
> it properly myself yet :)

I think I have a two-page description somewhere...  I've written it
after I got fed up with explaining the procedure time and again.  :-) 
For those without the proper Slavistic skills, the pronounciation
could be approximated to Hurvoye, with the accent being on `ur' and
`e' being clearly heard.  For bonus points, replace `ur' with rolled
r, as in Italian.

> Hrvoje dude, maybe you should record yourself saying your name (much
> like the one with Linus saying his name and how he pronounces Linux)
> ?

Not a bad idea!  "Hello, I am Hrvoje Nikšić and I pronounce Iks-Emaks."
:-)

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
Oh lord won't you buy me a color TV...

Re: how do you pronounce gnus?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> "Hello, I am Hrvoje Nik¹iæ and I pronounce Iks-Emaks."  :-)

Oh.  I though "Niksic" was pronounced that way -- "nicksick".  :-)
How do you pronounce "¹"?  Uhm.  "Nik-one-iaeh".

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: how do you pronounce gnus?

[SL Baur]

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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Oh.  I though "Niksic" was pronounced that way -- "nicksick".  :-)
> How do you pronounce "¹"?  Uhm.  "Nik-one-iaeh".

You munged the MIME charset.  Hrvoje's message was in ISO-8859-2.


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Re: how do you pronounce gnus?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

SL Baur <steve@vmailer.xemacs.org> writes:

> > Oh.  I though "Niksic" was pronounced that way -- "nicksick".  :-)
> > How do you pronounce "¹"?  Uhm.  "Nik-one-iaeh".
> 
> You munged the MIME charset.  Hrvoje's message was in ISO-8859-2.

MIME?  What's that, then?  :-)

Now, how's an "s" with an upside-down "^" over it pronounced?  "ssh"?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: how do you pronounce gnus?

[SL Baur]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> MIME?  What's that, then?  :-)

Something we're breathlessly waiting for a native Gnus implementation
of?  :-)

Re: how do you pronounce gnus?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

SL Baur <steve@vmailer.xemacs.org> writes:

> > MIME?  What's that, then?  :-)
> 
> Something we're breathlessly waiting for a native Gnus implementation
> of?  :-)

Oh.  But now that paperclip-mode has been posted to a.r.e, I thought
Emacs was Complete?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: how do you pronounce gnus?

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> > "Hello, I am Hrvoje Nikšić and I pronounce Iks-Emaks."  :-)
> 
> Oh.  I though "Niksic" was pronounced that way -- "nicksick".  :-)
> How do you pronounce "š"?  Uhm.  "Nik-one-iaeh".

Use the headers, Luke!  It's iso-8859-2.

It's something like Nikshich, only ch is not really ch.  This gets
very complicated.  If I keep explaining it for some more time, I won't 
be able to pronounce it myself.  :-)

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
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sure to let them trace you. Spend 10 years in jail and then regret it.

Re: how do you pronounce gnus?

[Michael Harnois]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> It's something like Nikshich, only ch is not really ch.

What is it then? This begins to sound like Humpty Dumpty. I, for one,
would be happy to pitch in and get you a sound card and a microphone,
so that you could send us an audio clip ...

-- 
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