Nvidia is pronounced like "IN vidia" or "EN vidia" NOT "Na vidia.

[Uttamattamakin]

Lately I have noticed two different YouTube channels pronounce it "Na vidia"  or "Nevidia" .  They do it with such confidence and like they would correct other peoples pronunciation if given the chance.  One channel was a political news channel "Breaking Points" they mentioned it in talking about rich people doing rich people stuff with stock.  So I figured it was just people who are no techy and don't know what's inside their computer to save their lives. 

Then I saw a linux focused channel do it.  Now us Linux people love to nit pick everything especially with pronunciations of the words that do not match phonetically with how they are spelled. For a while we were being told to say "Lin X" instead of "Linuks".    You know like this.  This is how our community is.  

 

For once we know how it is said.  

 

Which is how the company told us to say it way WAY back in the day at the start of almost every game.   Many examples of it being said by them here. 

 So this post is kinda frivolous just consider it a resource for evidence if someone decides to police how say Nvidia.   

*The correct way to install Linux is to download one of the distros Nvidia list as being officially supported by CUDA, such as Debian, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Ubuntu, Centos etc.  Let the neckbeards use Arch based distros only to then argue that the only real Linux is Linux From Scratch (built from source code) etc. 

[Middcore]

It's pronounced "NoVideo" LOLOLOLOLOL

[saintlouisbagels]

Next you're gonna tell us it's pronounced 3080 Tigh instead of Tee-I.

[Levent]

You should see what people sound like when they attempt to read nginx.

[StephanTW]

i think to avoid miscommunication we should pronounce it: November Victor India Delta India Alpha

[Uttamattamakin]

3 minutes ago, saint_louis_bagels said:

Next you're gonna tell us it's pronounced 3080 Tigh instead of Tee-I.

Actually its pronounced 3080 Tie.  

I am a woman but I'd totally wear that for the memes. 

[SupaKomputa]

Just now, Levent said:

You should see what people sound like when they attempt to read nginx.

neginks. lol

[Sauron]

I pronounce it novaydieh

[mike_seps]

Ooooh, Missy three thousand eighty tie

[IkeaGnome]

10 minutes ago, Levent said:

You should see what people sound like when they attempt to read nginx.

X Æ A-12 

Just going to leave that here as a friendly reminder.

[TechnoCin]

20 minutes ago, Uttamattamakin said:

Lately I have noticed two different YouTube channels pronounce it "Na vidia"  or "Nevidia" .  They do it with such confidence and like they would correct other peoples pronunciation if given the chance.  One channel was a political news channel "Breaking Points" they mentioned it in talking about rich people doing rich people stuff with stock.  So I figured it was just people who are no techy and don't know what's inside their computer to save their lives. 

Then I saw a linux focused channel do it.  Now us Linux people love to nit pick everything especially with pronunciations of the words that do not match phonetically with how they are spelled. For a while we were being told to say "Lin X" instead of "Linuks".    You know like this.  This is how our community is.  

 

For once we know how it is said.  

 

Which is how the company told us to say it way WAY back in the day at the start of almost every game.   Many examples of it being said by them here. 

 So this post is kinda frivolous just consider it a resource for evidence if someone decides to police how say Nvidia.   

*The correct way to install Linux is to download one of the distros Nvidia list as being officially supported by CUDA, such as Debian, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Ubuntu, Centos etc.  Let the neckbeards use Arch based distros only to then argue that the only real Linux is Linux From Scratch (built from source code) etc. 

I say Nvidia like "N" vidi "a
Fun fact: In one of Nvidia's videos, the cards with Ti was pronounced "Thai"

[Murasaki]

23 minutes ago, Levent said:

You should see what people sound like when they attempt to read nginx.

Ive always read it as "enginks"

[Jorgemeister]

16 minutes ago, TechnoCin said:

I say Nvidia like "N" vidi "a
Fun fact: In one of Nvidia's videos, the cards with Ti was pronounced "Thai"

Ive always pronounced it as "t i" as in "tee - eye" since it is supposed to come from Titanium, but Ive heard people say "Tie".

[Levent]

32 minutes ago, Murasaki said:

Ive always read it as "enginks"

This is more of a non-native speaker thing, that would be proper way to say nginx.

[tikker]

9 minutes ago, Levent said:

This is more of a non-native speaker thing, that would be proper way to say nginx.

I prefer nginx myself. This made me curious enough to look it up though. Obvious, but a bit unexpected I must say. it's clearly one of those cases where the developer just didn't know how to pronounce their invention's name correctly.

[Neroon]

1 hour ago, Uttamattamakin said:

Now us Linux people love to nit pick everything especially with pronunciations of the words that do not match phonetically with how they are spelled. For a while we were being told to say "Lin X" instead of "Linuks".    You know like this.  This is how our community 

His name is literally all over the place... it's Linus, with an S.

[Uttamattamakin]

41 minutes ago, Neroon said:

His name is literally all over the place... it's Linus, with an S.

Yeah basically pronounce Linus ... then put an X sound in place of the S. 

[Heliian]

There is no lack of people confidently mispronouncimg words these days.  Translation errors are common but it's also the interweb echo that helps reaffirm their incorrect saying.  Reliance on text to speech machines doesn't help either.  

[SimplyChunk]

1 hour ago, Heliian said:

There is no lack of people confidently mispronouncimg words these days.  Translation errors are common but it's also the interweb echo that helps reaffirm their incorrect saying.  Reliance on text to speech machines doesn't help either.  

America has been proudly mispronouncing words for years 

[da na]

5 hours ago, Levent said:

You should see what people sound like when they attempt to read nginx.

Xilinx is one I always struggle with...

 

 

 

I still write nVidia and eVGA (as they used to be styled), and also catch myself calling new Radeon cards "ATI", so mispronunciation is forgivable

[Needfuldoer]

3 hours ago, Mel0nMan said:

Xilinx is one I always struggle with...

"Zy-links"?

[da na]

6 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

"Zy-links"?

Pretty sure that's the correct way but sometimes it catches me off guard, resulting in "Exy-linux" or something like that

[Erioch]

I mean, there used to be a woman's voice saying it before certain games.  What's the mystery?

[Uttamattamakin]

37 minutes ago, Erioch said:

I mean, there used to be a woman's voice saying it before certain games.  What's the mystery?

Exactly.  Where does this  NaVidia pronunciation come from?   It's been the same since before the Nvidia Riva GPU ca 1997. 

 

[Erioch]

3 minutes ago, Uttamattamakin said:

Exactly.  Where does this  NaVidia pronunciation come from?   It's been the same since before the Nvidia Riva GPU ca 1997. 

 

I've honestly never heard it.

 

I will never, however, say "tie" for a "Ti" video card.   Not ever going to happen.