Re: GNOME vs. Gnome

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Chema Celorio (chema celorio com) wrote at 16:57 on 05/10/00:
> I agree with bart here.
> 
> The thing is that usually when you spell with capital letters,
> and you say the word, you spell each letter individually, then
> it makes sense.
> 
> Like :
> HP you say "Ache Pee" or
> IBM you say "Eye Bee Em", 
> KDE you say "EEeeek, what's that"
> 
> Unless we start saying, "your 'Ge En O Em E' Desktop is nice."
> 
> For names that you pronouce the name itself tend
> to be spelled with Cap+lower letters. Like "Sun" for example.
> 
> So by that rationality, since when we speak we say "genome" ,
> or (ghn-nome, depending on who you are :-) ) the spelling
> would be "Gnome".
> 
> About the press having decided "Gnome" for use, I don't think
> we would ever win a battle with them, try making them start 
> using the word cracker instead of Hacker..

Well - umm. If we do use 'Gnome' then shouldn't it be pronouned 'nome' instead
of 'guh-nome' ?

Whatever - this discussion is <sarcasm>too controversial</sarcasm> for me :P

Regards,
Ali