Re: pronunciation of daemon
> Because his name is Linus, pronounced Leenus. Hence Leenux.
> If you pronounce his name as Lie-nus (as native English speakers
> would tend to), then Lie-nucks is reasonable -- but wrong.
It is pronounced as Leenus in his native country (in many European
languages, i's have ee sounds almost exclusively). The Peanuts
character, Linus, is pronounced 'Line-us', though, so that's probably
why I say "Line-ux". I'm pretty sure I read something by Linus where
he mentioned the fact that name pronunciations do get translated
over in other languages and he was perfectly fine with it. And as has
been mentioned here before, it was originally Line-ux and only became
Lynn-us because of the press.
Personally I don't find this conversation annoying at all as long as
people don't insist on a pronunciation when even the ones who grew
up in the same city can't agree on how to say 'bagel'. : )
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