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cup
I have always wondered: how do you pronounce AntiX. I used to pronounce it as antiques because I thought it was a great name for antique machines but recently I heard someone call it N T X. That got me thinking: how do you pronounce it
Is it N T X or is it antiques?
Perhaps you could add it to the home page to solve the mystery of pronunciation.
Anonymous
The mystery can be solved by clicking “wiki” in the forum headerbar and reading a few pages.
Even quicker, enter “pronounce” in the forum search and skim the first batch of search results.
Even more quicker (quickly-est?), click PLAY on the homepage ~~ in the first 3 seconds of the video, you’ll hear it spoken.ready?
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The video pronounces it as annie ex. I normally have the sound on mute, which is why I’ve never heard it.
ex_Koo
Maybe start with the spelling first. antiX (no bloody caps a)
I’m in trouble now. %-/
Brian Masinick
There isn’t a lot of difference between antics and antiques. Just a slightly shorter sound.
Brian Masinick
There isn’t a lot of difference between antics and antiques. Just a slightly shorter sound.
Different spelling, pronunciation and a completely different meaning. To me the
similarities are the first 4 letters (the common prefix “anti’) and the last letter, and my different perspective; anything else I am “missing”?😃--
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christophe
The video pronounces it as annie ex.
Full marks to skidoo for the flourish and spectacle in leading cup to the video….. 😉
confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019
Brian Masinick
https://antixlinux.com/forum-archive/how-is-anti-x-pronounced-t6859.html
“Shayposted: 2017-02-12 20:14 #2
“antics” is correct. ”https://download.tuxfamily.org/antix/docs-antiX-19/live-boot/glossary.html
Glossary of Terms
antiXPronounced like the word antics, which means playful behavior. antiX is a fast, lightweight and easy to install Linux live CD distribution based on Debian Testing for Intel-AMD x86 compatible system.
—This last one is where I remember first seeing this in an “official document”, though it may have been mentioned before this; it was even talked about in 2006 in an old MEPIS forum, but back then it was mostly a humorous exchange. This is based on performing several searches, which now seem to agree with what I thought I’d once read. I used to pronounce it as anti X myself until I read the note above several years ago.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Brian Masinick.
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ou812, a.k.a. John said this in 2008:
“I used to say anti-x even though I read somewhere that it rhymed with antiques. Lately, I’ve been pronouncing it antics. It sounds cooler that way.”john
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Brian Masinickchristophe
Right. And only Dolphin Oracle pronounces it “annie ex” 🙂
- This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by christophe.
confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019
Brian Masinick
Right. And only Dolphin Oracle pronounces it “annie ex” 🙂
Not deliberately trying to be disagreeable but I heard Dolphin Oracle say antics, he just didn’t enunciate the ‘t’, he was speaking fairly quickly.
D.O. has 2-3 antiX videos over the past few releases. If you listen to each of them and take his speaking style into account I believe that he’s saying antics for antiX, certainly not anti X and definitely not antiques.
He’s probably from a region similar to the regions I have lived in; I have no problems understanding what he has to say.
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cyrilus31
[…]Dolphin Oracle say antics, he just didn’t enunciate the ‘t’, he was speaking fairly quickly.
Phew, it’s good to hear that from native english speaker 😉
The fact is that antiX is pronounced in the same way in French…Phew²- This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by cyrilus31.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by cyrilus31.
marcelocripe
Cup,
I would like to thank you for starting this important topic.
Yes, I am writing seriously and in Portuguese, so the text that arrives for you is translated by an online translator. Yes, this is an important topic as far as having another topic containing the full history of antiX.
This is a question that I have had since I started the first tests on antiX and that consequently brought me to this forum.
I hope that everyone who is expressing their considerations, who is taking it seriously and who preferably is a native speaker of the English language or who has complete command of the English language. Ambiguous interpretations do not help users in other countries who do not speak English in any way.
Dolphin Oracle speaks extremely fast, the translation from Youtube gets lost, it’s even desperate to watch his videos with audio …
I would very much like the creator to record the correct pronunciation on audio and make it available to everyone, only with the word “antiX” being pronounced, thus solving any type of misunderstanding about the name or pronunciation. That way I would teach correctly to other people here in Brazil, what I’m sure of is that I’m currently teaching it wrong, not because I want to, but because I don’t know what the correct pronunciation is.
The pronunciation sounds like bullshit, but it’s not … The worst thing is to teach wrong, or to think that you are doing the right thing and not wanting to be wrong.
Having the creator’s audio would be very good, at least I could play the audio for everyone to hear, everyone would try to pronounce in the same way, it would be a super fun moment, probably everyone would laugh at me, because I can’t pronounce ” antiX “in English …
I’m glad mr. Brian Masinick is participating in this topic …
As I wrote on this topic, I remembered that antiX brought me a lot more laughs of satisfaction and surprise, than expressions of “anguish”. And the more I study it, the happier I am.
marcelocripe
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Cup,
Eu gostaria de te agradecer por iniciar este importante tópico.
Sim, estou escrevendo de forma séria e em Português, por tanto o texto que chega para vocês é traduzido por um tradutor online. Sim, este é um importante tópico, tanto quanto a ter um outro tópico contendo a história completa do antiX.
Esta é uma dúvida que eu tenho desde que iniciei os primeiros testes no antiX e que consequentemente me trouxeram para este fórum.
Eu espero que todos que estejam expressando as suas considerações, que estejam levando a sério e que preferencialmente sejam nativos da língua inglesa ou que tenha total domínio sobre o idioma inglês. Interpretações ambíguas não ajudam em nada os usuários de outros países e que não dominam o idioma inglês.
O Dolphin Oracle fala extremamente rápido, a tradução do Youtube se perde, chega a ser desesperador assistir os vídeos dele com áudio …
Eu gostaria muito que o criador, gravasse em áudio a pronúncia correta e disponibiliza-se para todos, apenas com a palavra “antiX” sendo pronunciado, assim resolveria qualquer tipo de mal entendido sobre o nome ou a pronuncia. Dessa forma eu iria ensinar de forma correta para as outras pessoas aqui no Brasil, o que eu tenho certeza é, que atualmente eu estou ensinando errado, não porque eu quero, mas porque eu não sei qual é a pronuncia correta.
A pronúncia, parece besteira, mas não é … A pior coisa que existe é ensinar errado, ou pensar que está fazendo o correto e sem querer estar errando.
Possuir o áudio do criador, seria muito bom, ao menos eu poderia tocar o áudio para que todos ouvissem, cada um iria tentar pronunciar da mesma forma, seria um momento super divertido, provavelmente todos iriam rir de mim, por eu não conseguir pronunciar “antiX” em inglês …
Ainda bem que sr. Brian Masinick está participando deste tópico …
Enquanto eu escrevo nesta tópico, eu me lembrei que o antiX me trouxe muito mais risos de satisfação e de surpresa, do que expressões de “angustia”. E quanto mais eu o estudo, mais feliz eu fico.
marcelocripe
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Brian Masinick
Detour:
Early Days; Linus Torvalds pronounces Linux : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c39QPDTDdXU
Somewhat more recently, Torvalds shares his name in Swedish, Finnish, and English (doesn’t care), and correct Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAEsoKiZTvkAnticapitalista has, to my knowledge, never weighed in on the pronunciation of antiX.
Back in 2006, when antiX was only raised to the regular MEPIS Lovers Community, there were “jokes” about it, but the two standing pronunciations early on were anti X and antics. In 2008, after the “official” first release in 2007, one of the prominent early contributors, ou812, (John), expressed his preference for the pronunciation antics. Again in 2012, a discussion re-emerged, and again the prevailing preference was antics. The last discussion prior to ours was in 2017 and antics came out on top again.There have been people still saying “anti X” (saying anti, then saying X) so this would *seem* to be a 2nd interpretation, but usually when that comes out, someone will say, “That sounds like we are anti (against) X, so let’s use antics as the pronunciation, because antics means playful behavior.”
Despite the discussions, some people will choose one or the other. All I can say in that regard is that these two alternatives have been the only “commonly recognized” names, and the antics one seems to “win” the discussions, and I’m guessing at least 70% of the people say antics, and the only developer who has made an audio or video in the past 5 years says “antics”, (though a few people claim to have also heard him say “annie x”). If so, I’d say “annie” was a “joke”, not to be taken seriously. If anticapitalista changes the name, the pronunciation, or says he wants it a certain way, then it’ll change; otherwise two long timers (Dolphin Oracle and me) say it’s antiX pronounced as antics.
In the thread “Wifi with connman – antiX 19.2” I added two videos by Dolphin Oracle, one for antiX 19 and another for antiX 17, and in both of them, in the introductory comments, Dolphin Oracle refers to the releases, pronouncing the name as antics (speaking fairly quickly, and lightly pronouncing the t, and slightly stronger on the an than the tics, so it’s an’-tics (AN-tics).
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