 It seems that every video that I make has a problem that someone in the comments will take issue with and I always get these comments sometimes one or two per video and They usually go along something like this You're pronouncing it wrong and it doesn't matter what it is referring to in that sentence It could be genome. It could be mate. It could be canoe. It could be Linux I had someone tell me that I was pronouncing open suzer wrong and it's possible that I am pronouncing open Suzer wrong, but I've seen some open Suzer videos from the open Suzer channel and that's how they pronounce it or At least in the their music videos. That's how they pronounce it. But again, it could be possible that I'm pronouncing it wrong the thing is is I'm quite tired of being corrected on my pronunciation because first of all Pronunciation of these things doesn't matter really at the end of the day if you want to say genome Or if you want to say gnome, it does not matter who cares that whatever There are proper ways of saying it So I thought what I'd do is do a very quick video I seem to be doing very quick videos, you know the last couple days But what I thought I'd do is do a very quick video on proper pronunciation of things that I know for sure how to pronounce things for so These are one of the things where I know I'm right and the people in the comments are wrong And I want to be the person who schools them. So let's go ahead and talk about The least the two biggest problems people seem to have when it comes to pronunciation the first one is Genome and you'll notice how I said that genome and I know it's pronounced genome because it's an acronym or at least it started off as an acronym So I'm gonna show you this as proof. I'm gonna show you proof here in a second But go back to my first point that pronunciation really doesn't matter But if you're gonna bother correcting me at least know that I'm gonna come right back at you when I have proof that I'm right so This is my proof now, obviously Wikipedia is the sterling example of honest and fair and accurate information on the internet. We all know that but we know this is true so GNOME was originally an acronym GNU network object model environment Now they no longer do the acronym thing. It's just GNOME now. It doesn't stand for anything, but it started out that way so GNU is pronounced GNU. We know it's pronounced GNU. GNU is not UNIX. That's what it stands for Okay, and we know it's pronounced that it's not pronounced new Okay, it's just not nobody ever in the history of the world has ever said new Because you'd miss the G and it's not a silent G so we know that GNOME is pronounced GNOME and That's just the way it is now. You can pronounce it however you like. I don't care And like I said, it doesn't really matter But if again if you're going to correct somebody at least know you're right and in this case The you commenters who have corrected me over the last few months. You now know that you're wrong Okay, it's GNOME and whatever. It's a it's a crappy desktop environment. Who cares how you say it? But it's GNOME. Anyways, the other one is called Mate. Okay, so Everyone who sees Ubuntu mate or the the Linux version of mate are going to take a look and see Mate right because especially if you're an American when you see MATE you think mate Probably in other English speaking countries as well. The thing is that's not how you pronounce it It's named after the South American plant yerba mate and a tea made from the herb mate So that's how you pronounce it now. We even know this because again the Paragana virtue, which is Wikipedia Mate, right? I mean, that's how you pronounce it We can even we could even go into like a pronunciation guide if we wanted to but it's pronounced mate now the people who Use mate are going to be much more Feisty when it comes to how you pronounce this name. I don't particularly care about mate. I've it's I mean, it's GNOME too Okay, that's what mate is it's that's what it is. I mean, obviously it's been modernized But it's GNOME too. I mean seriously it still has the same paradigm that GNOME 2 has and that was the point of the desktop environment so Call it whatever you want. So again very short video, but Pronunciation is something that seems to piss a lot of people off and I don't know why I mean it's like the only reason I'm fired up about it because I keep getting corrected in the comments and I don't like like I Under I'm wrong a lot. I freely admit that I'm gonna not an expert in pretty much anything. I Freely admit that I get things wrong all the time. I'm human I get In fact, I would say I get things wrong More often than normal humans. It's just my nature, right? I bullshit a lot and sometimes that bullshit sticks to the wall. Sometimes it slides down slides down But the point is then like thanks Matt for the graphic, right? the point is I Don't mind getting corrected when it's possible that it could be wrong But when I know that or at least I think I know that I'm right I get you know my dander and a fluff or whatever they say anyways This is the most pointless video. 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