nginx (“engine x”) is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server. […] [1]

I still pronounce it as “n-jinx” in my head.

References
  1. Title (website): “nginx”. Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
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  • rishado@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Didn’t realize I was buddies with 99% of everyone that’s interacted with JSON!

    Also didn’t know people used the term ‘plebs’ unironically, you sound like an absolute joy to be around

    • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You seem in irrational need for validation of your pronunciation despite clear justification against it. Cool ad populum. Fly that insecurity flag high.

      • rishado@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Buddy. The inventor’s intention is not clear justification. Language becomes what is most colloquially used. You’ll be dying on this hill 20 years from now. You argue like a redditor, insufferable

        • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          There’s the original pronunciation, the suggestive spelling, the common phenomenon of punning in programming, and the natural way people pronounce it as a familiar name when they first see it. Then there’s your camp with a mythical, dorky pronunciation they pull out of nowhere and reinforce because.

          I think people are fine to call it Jason & drive you irrationally mad.

          • rishado@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            No, there’s only two categories here.

            The original pronunciation, Jason, and the natural way, being jaysawn. Literally acknowledged by Crawford:

            “Douglas Crockford, who named and promoted the JSON format, says it’s pronounced like the name Jason. But somehow, ‘JAY-sawn’[note 1] seems to have become more common in the technical community.”

            I wonder why it became more common? Could it be that jay-sawn is the “natural way people pronounce it”? No, it must be a bunch of dorks that pronounce it wrong just because, right?