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Trivia: In the video he pronounces the first syllable of his first name as lie; Wikepedia has an audio file [1] in which someone pronounces it as lee. Perhaps
by dctoedt 11y ago
Trivia: In the video he pronounces the first syllable of his first name as lie; Wikepedia has an audio file [1] in which someone pronounces it as lee. Perhaps he uses the former to conform to expectations of American English speakers who are used to Linus Pauling and the Linus character in the Peanuts comic strip.
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Sv-Linus_Torvalds2.ogg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Sv-Linus...
- gtk40 11y ago"I'm Lee-nus Torvalds and I pronounce 'Lee-nux' as 'Lee-nux.'"
- Nux 11y agohttp://dl.nux.ro/audio/linus-says-linux.oga http://dl.nux.ro/audio/linus-says-linux.oga
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoHis voice has gotten deeper and his accent has gotten better in all these years since :)
- andrewbinstock 11y agoDuring the early days of Linux's emergence, it was pronounced"Lie-nux", "Lin-ux," and "Lee-nux" by various groups of users. Finally, Lin-ux became the standard pronunciation b/c Torvalds explained that in Finnish his name was pronounced Lin-us, not Lie-nus. Given that he's spent most of his life in the US, he may have subsequently decided to "americanize" the pronunciation.
- amyjess 11y agoIn Revolution OS (made around 2000), he explained that he pronounces it differently depending on what language he's speaking. He gave examples in English, Swedish, and Finnish.
- shmerl 11y agoYeah, that was strange.
- dagw 11y agoI don't know. I also started to pronounce my name "wrong" when I was living in England to conform with how everybody else was pronouncing. I even have friends who just straight up used completely different names when living in English speaking countries to avoid the whole problem with no one pronouncing their names right.