From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mikadoZero Subject: Guix pronunciation Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 12:13:55 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50825) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h317l-0002cx-Ta for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2019 12:16:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h315h-0006Ao-K2 for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2019 12:14:23 -0400 Received: from forward104p.mail.yandex.net ([2a02:6b8:0:1472:2741:0:8b7:107]:59308) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h315e-00068K-Ru for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Mar 2019 12:14:19 -0400 Received: from mxback22g.mail.yandex.net (mxback22g.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:1472:2741:0:8b7:322]) by forward104p.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id ADB9E4B01657 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2019 19:14:11 +0300 (MSK) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Guix-devel@gnu.org Doing this duckduckgo site search: `geeks site:https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/` gives me only one match. Which is footnote 1 of section 1 Introduction of the manual. I do not know of anywhere else where the pronunciation of Guix is explicitly stated. I would like to know what other think about making the pronunciation of Guix obvious to anyone who visits the website. The reasoning for this is because the pronunciation of Guix as "geeks" is not intuitive. I think a lot of people will assume it is pronounced some other way. For example "gwixs" or "gooixs". I was not sure how to say Guix before watching a talk on Guix. It is also easy for people to miss that single footnote in the manual on how to pronounce Guix. I think the confusion around the pronunciation of GIF would probably be a worst case scenario. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Pronunciation_of_GIF Here are two projects that have non obvious pronunciation that address this issue directly on their project homepage: https://asciinema.org/ http://www.lighttpd.net/ I also wanted to know what people think about the "geeks" pronunciation and how it may impact adoption of Guix as it continues to grow long term. Maybe someday becoming as popular as Debian, macOS or Windows are today (wishful thinking). For example what if Linux kernel had actually been called Freax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux#Naming Would it have negatively impacted adoption of the kernel. Yes Freax and "geeks" are fun. On the other hand branding is important. Just to make my bias clear. I am not a fan of pronouncing Guix "geeks" and find myself thinking of deliberately mispronouncing Guix as "gwixs" or spelling out the letters G U I X when talking to people about Guix. I am curious what others think about these two related points.