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How does one pronounce "guix", anyways? Is it "goo-icks"?

by na85 8y ago

nerdponx 8y ago
"Geeks"
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chongli 8y ago
It's supposed to rhyme with Nix, being derived from it, so I would suspect it's monosyllabic. Thus, I would pronounce it "gwix."
- devonkim 8y ago
  A surprisingly high number of Nix and NixOS users are German speakers and there's an informal name of "NichtsOS" given to it.
- lfam 8y ago
  It's not supposed to rhyme with Nix. Rather, it's a portmanteau of Guile and Nix. The pronunciation is indeed like the English word 'geeks'.
mouldysammich 8y ago
I've heard it pronounced geeks by the developers.
agumonkey 8y ago
most probably geex, but feel free to be creative: gyeewix, gwiks, g-[u]-ayks
Foxboron 8y ago
It's a french spelling of the word "geeks" some devs told me.
- oska 8y ago
  Not according to the french wiktionary [1]. There is a Catalan word guix however, where it means chalk. [2] [1] https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/geek https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/geek [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guix https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guix
  - pygy_ 8y ago
    Geek is a borrowed word in French, and the original English spelling is used. If you wanted to write a word that respects French pronunciation and sounded like "geeks" in English, you'd write it "guix", or "guiks". It is a bilingual pun.
- m_t 8y ago
  It's not the spelling, as geeks is spelt geeks in France[0], but I guess it's the English "direct" spelling of the French pronunciation. [0] https://www.lemonde.fr/les-cles-de-demain/article/2016/12/16/un-geek-est-avant-tout-un-passionne_5050248_4758288.html https://www.lemonde.fr/les-cles-de-demain/article/2016/12/16...
westmeal 8y ago
gooey x?
petecox 8y ago
The user manual says 'geeks': https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Introduction.html#FOOT1 https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Introd...
laputan_machine 8y ago
They did a talk at FOSDEM this year, one of the contributors pronounced it 'Gix'
KirinDave 8y ago
The FAQ says the IPA is: ɡiːks (𐑜𐑰𐑒𐑕, not 𐑜𐑰𐑒𐑟). There is a snakey S at the end not a Z like Americans are used to using.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y ago
  Americans would also say /ɡiːks/. No dialect of English would be likely to use /ɡiːkz/; that's not how voicing assimilation works.
  - KirinDave 8y ago
    I've heard a bunch of people use the Z in person and on recorded talks.
    - _emacsomancer_ 8y ago
      Hmm. If you remember, could you drop me a link the next time you come across this in a recorded talk? It's pretty weird with a word like geek. Something that ends with a voiced sound as in dog of course will be tend to occur with a final /z/ rather than /s/ (though word-final devoicing is a productive process, so even dogs is often realised as /dɔgs/).

How does one pronounce "guix", anyways? Is it "goo-icks"?

by na85 8y ago

How does one pronounce "guix", anyways? Is it "goo-icks"?

nerdponx 8y ago

"Geeks"

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chongli 8y ago

It's supposed to rhyme with Nix, being derived from it, so I would suspect it's monosyllabic. Thus, I would pronounce it "gwix."

devonkim 8y ago
A surprisingly high number of Nix and NixOS users are German speakers and there's an informal name of "NichtsOS" given to it.
lfam 8y ago
It's not supposed to rhyme with Nix. Rather, it's a portmanteau of Guile and Nix. The pronunciation is indeed like the English word 'geeks'.

mouldysammich 8y ago

I've heard it pronounced geeks by the developers.

agumonkey 8y ago

most probably geex, but feel free to be creative: gyeewix, gwiks, g-[u]-ayks

Foxboron 8y ago

It's a french spelling of the word "geeks" some devs told me.

oska 8y ago
Not according to the french wiktionary [1]. There is a Catalan word guix however, where it means chalk. [2] [1] https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/geek https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/geek [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guix https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guix
- pygy_ 8y ago
  Geek is a borrowed word in French, and the original English spelling is used. If you wanted to write a word that respects French pronunciation and sounded like "geeks" in English, you'd write it "guix", or "guiks". It is a bilingual pun.
m_t 8y ago
It's not the spelling, as geeks is spelt geeks in France[0], but I guess it's the English "direct" spelling of the French pronunciation. [0] https://www.lemonde.fr/les-cles-de-demain/article/2016/12/16/un-geek-est-avant-tout-un-passionne_5050248_4758288.html https://www.lemonde.fr/les-cles-de-demain/article/2016/12/16...

westmeal 8y ago

gooey x?

petecox 8y ago

The user manual says 'geeks': https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Introduction.html#FOOT1 https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Introd...

laputan_machine 8y ago

They did a talk at FOSDEM this year, one of the contributors pronounced it 'Gix'

KirinDave 8y ago

The FAQ says the IPA is: ɡiːks (𐑜𐑰𐑒𐑕, not 𐑜𐑰𐑒𐑟). There is a snakey S at the end not a Z like Americans are used to using.

_emacsomancer_ 8y ago
Americans would also say /ɡiːks/. No dialect of English would be likely to use /ɡiːkz/; that's not how voicing assimilation works.
- KirinDave 8y ago
  I've heard a bunch of people use the Z in person and on recorded talks.
  - _emacsomancer_ 8y ago
    Hmm. If you remember, could you drop me a link the next time you come across this in a recorded talk? It's pretty weird with a word like geek. Something that ends with a voiced sound as in dog of course will be tend to occur with a final /z/ rather than /s/ (though word-final devoicing is a productive process, so even dogs is often realised as /dɔgs/).