How do you pronounce GNU/Linux?

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Avron

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Do you say "GNU slash Linux" or do you say something else instead of "slash"? Do you actually pronounce "GNU/Linux"?

The French version of https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#pronounce recommends saying the English word "slash" which I think is not common in French and that don't use. The only somehow common usage of that character that I can think of in French is to shorten a city name like "X-on-Y" where Y is a river name (the word for "river" is not used) as X/Y on road signs to save space and everyone will pronounce "X on Y". That usage is directly inspired by how fractions are pronounced in French.

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I usually say "GNU Linux" or more rarely "GNU plus Linux". Like most people I write it as "GNU/Linux", but actually saying "slash" each time is a little unwieldy.

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Another I've heard is "GNU with Linux"

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I listen to a lot of Distrotube's videos, and he always says "GNU slash Linux", and so that's helped to train me that way. When I hear someone else say something a few hundred times, it sounds more natural to my ears.

libredrs

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I've never spoken it aloud.

Saying 'slash' is just too weird.

Unless:

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https://vid.puffyan.us/lE4UXdJSJM4?t=41

Now seriously, "gnu-linux"

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I find this really interesting.
My native language is german and if we write "a slice of bread with cheese/ham" we mean "a slice of bread with cheese or ham" but pronounce "a slice of bread with cheese, ham"
So now I try to say "GNU with Linux".

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When I want to be specific: "GNU forward slash Linux"

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I do my best impersonation of RMS and say "GNU plus Lin-ox".

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I say: /gny linyks/ in french and /gnu linʌks/ in English, I rarely use the word “et” in french or “and” in English and never the word “slash” or (I don't even know how this is called in french, I only know the English word).
“It's the final "23" of the current version. I cannot count up to anything higher than 10 without getting dizzy.”
Speaking about Slash, I assume this is this Dizzy (with a capital “D”).
By the way, libredrs should wonder about the size of Slash's Marshall's wall.

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Oh, I forgot about the debate about should we say Linux or not, and (in my humble opinion) yes we should, Magic Banana's argument is enough, but I add that without Linux, there would be no Linux-Libre, so, it worth mentioning it and the fact that Linux-Libre is part of GNU is just a question of circumstances, what counts in that matter is that Linux is not part of GNU.