got into an argument with a merkin about pronunciation

It’s at a linux forum i sometimes post at (which I’d prefer to remain a super secret).

There’s this guy from a place called "New York".

He started a thread protesting that nothing irritated him more than when people pronounce linux as lin-ux instead of lie-nux, as it is, according to him, incorrect . So I linked him to Linus Torvalds interweb famous sound recording for proper pronunciation as he is wrong and he'd still not have any of it :blink:

I'd even be willing to go along with it and let him have his pronunciation as a majority used way of saying it (as I know a few people who do the same) if he'd have spelt it in the phonetic way of "lynux" or even "lynuks" but still he'd have none of it, according to him its spelt linux and pronounced lye-nux. End of :no:

http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/

Got three guys agreeing with me (one from merica, one from the UK and one from Spain) and one guy disagreeing who is from Wisconsin :dabs:

Far be it for me to correct anyone on grammar or punctuation, but I do so hate it when bitchez fail to recognize :no:

gonna have to drink some beer to prove im not a poof after all this wurd shite :pinch:

Idiot, he should use whinedoes instead:smilie4:

Word shite > computer shite.

Keep on fighting the good fight, Mulder :smilie4:

never give up, never surrender :smilie4:

http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/...osurrender.jpg

:smilie4:

classic.

That's back in the dayz when I thought van Damme was teh pwnage.

Potaytoe pahtahtoe.

:shuriken:

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Originally Posted by MagicNakor

Potaytoe pahtahtoe.

:shuriken:

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I recognise this theme.

First you start posting gibberish - then you regale us with your scat cllection :fear:

:o

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Actually, I'm a little upset that it didn't switch to that until after I went to bed. Had I known....ew. You can never unknow. I'm sorry. :(

:shuriken:

i still say teh bannage:no2:

reads nothing like linux, i know:pinch:

Everyone knows it's pronounced linux, the guy must be an arse.

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Originally Posted by MagicNakor

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Actually, I'm a little upset that it didn't switch to that until after I went to bed. Had I known....ew. You can never unknow. I'm sorry. :(

:shuriken:

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Actually, it was immediate. We never saw Carlton - you only did because it was in your cache (temp interweb files).

As I recall, the first image was a guy wth his own cawk up his arse ... which was rather mild compared with what followed :lol:

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Originally Posted by Sextent

Everyone knows it's pronounced linux, the guy must be an arse.

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an arse of titanic proportion

Actually it's pronounced lhttp://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/g...GIF/ibreve.gifnhttp://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/g...GIF/ubreve.gifks

Where http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/g...GIF/ibreve.gif = "i" as in pit and http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/g...GIF/ubreve.gif = "u" as in cut.

your letters look funny :lookaroun

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Originally Posted by Sextent

Actually it's pronounced lhttp://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/g...GIF/ibreve.gifnhttp://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/g...GIF/ubreve.gifks

Where http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/g...GIF/ibreve.gif = "i" as in pit and http://cache.lexico.com/dictionary/g...GIF/ubreve.gif = "u" as in cut.

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so ya thats wot i iz sayin lyke but he woz 'avin none of it innit

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Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder

your letters look funny :lookaroun

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It helps to keep it breve..

I am only semi breve at the moment....

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Originally Posted by sArA

I am only semi breve at the moment....

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A semi's a semi.

@Mulder - send the :ph34r: Elite SpleeChk Taskforce Team :ph34r: (ESTT) (aka Agent JP & Mank ) over to that forum, it will be sorted in no time,
however there could be some casualties.

might be no retreat, no surrender for him. Thats a tough fighting spirit. You should just ignore that cunt.*_*