Programmer Humor

"nnnnn-ghinks"

When I first heard someone say SCSI out loud describing the drives in a server, I responded with, "No, they're actually high-end drives."

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

suddenly it all makes sense.

Idiot. Using English letters to try to represent sounds they don't normally make. It didn't work for gif (pronounced commonly as gif instead of jif), why would they think it would work for them?

And postgresql is pronounced post-gres-Q-L, even though it probably should be post-gre-SQL

Wow, I never knew people thought it was pronounced differently. Never even considered it looked like jinx.

I went for n-ginx too. I've known for a while that it's actually n-gin-x but have to think carefully to not revert back.

It's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove

I really dislike the trend of made up pronunciations. I can accept that gnome is with an audible g since that makes more sense than a silent g, but nginx can be at best similar to engine-x, but even then it's more like the n in dnd rather than en.

I called it n-jinx once. felt embarrassed for myself as soon as I said it.

called it engine-x ever since.

You have to say it in a commanding Japanese accent... Engine X

It sounds way cooler that way