I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind
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Ok so I know what ŋ sounds like but I bet there are some idiots here who don’t, so maybe explain it.
For them
In relation to English, it's the "ng" sound in the common "-ing" ending or suffix.
Wikipedia has an entire article on it (of course): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_velar_nasal
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I've always pronounced it "In-jen-iks". I blame Jurassic Park and it's fictional biotech company InGen, but it does kinda also sound like "eugenics". But I dunno man, if you want everyone to pronounce your software a specific way maybe spell it in a manner where the pronunciation is more obvious? Just a thought.
The correct way is njinx because enginex is a dumb spelling and is too much like twitter
Can you believe that fucking dipshit ruined the letter X for all of us 😤
I will be dead and buried in the ground before I call nginx "engine x"
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I can't stop pronouncing USAID as u said even after i finally heard it instead of just reading it
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It's, ummm, literally the first thing on the website (nginx.org). Tell me you didn't read the docs without telling me you didn't read the docs
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It took a while for me to get it, but it still read ngnix as "n.g. -nix" in my head.
Nginx is atrocious. I about have a stroke every time I have to work with it. Caddy is 1000x easier to set up.
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N-gin? Cortex's henchman???
Thank you for saving me from future embarrassment.
Or just becoming terminal "um actually"-er like I've become with epoch
am i the only one who thought it was nyuh-inks
No ^[1.1]^.
EDIT 2025-02-28T10:17Z: Actually, @Aatube@kbin.melroy.org, I was wrong in my initial interpretation ^[1.2]^. So, from what I can tell, you are, in actuality, the only one itt! 😊
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- Type: Post. "TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx"". Author: "Kalcifer" @Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works. Publisher: "Programmer Humor" !programmer_humor@programming.dev. sh.itjust.works. Lemmy. Published: 2025-02-26T23:27:35Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33487588.
- Type: Comment. Author: @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world. Published: 2025-02-27T00:18:34Z. Accessed: 2025-02-28T06:38Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33487588/16948274.
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I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind
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- Type: Comment. Author: @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world. Published: 2025-02-28T09:09:54. Accessed: 2025-02-28T10:24Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33487588/16975245.
Nope.
- The thread from which that quote originated was as follows:
TIL that "nginx" is pronounced "engine-x", and not "n-jinx" […]
I always heard it as /ŋiŋks/ in my mind
Do you mean /ɲiɲks/? […]
Nope.
- The thread from which that quote originated was as follows:
- Type: Comment. Author: @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world. Published: 2025-02-27T00:18:34Z. Accessed: 2025-02-28T06:38Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33487588/16948274.