Yeah except it’s named after the play so it’s definitely pronounced God-oh. I think people just mispronounce it Go-dot if they haven’t heard of the play. Looking at you Mr Linus Tips.
The name “Godot” was chosen due to its relation to Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, as it represents the never-ending wish of adding new features in the engine, which would get it closer to an exhaustive product, but never will.
but also the logo for the project is a robot so pronouncing it like that word makes sense and means it won’t be confused with the play: ro-bot, go-dot.
Yeah except it’s named after the play so it’s definitely pronounced God-oh. I think people just mispronounce it Go-dot if they haven’t heard of the play. Looking at you Mr Linus Tips.
From the article linked on this very post:
They’re being diplomatic. From Wikipedia:
It’s clear that it’s named after the play. It’s also clear that the devs really don’t care how you say it.
Personally, I think I’ll start doing god-ot, as in “got it”.
Isn’t butchering the french language cultural genocide or something?
And its logo is a robot, so it isn’t unreasonable to think it’s go-dot
But how do you pronounce robot? I’ve always pronounced it row-boat.
if you say “gow-doat” people will barely even register that you said it differently
My name is Empricorn. But it’s pronounced “Plarxaniatl”!
juː ʃʊd juːz ˌɪntəˈnæʃᵊnᵊl fəʊˈnɛtɪk ˈælfəbɛt fɔː prəˌnʌnsiˈeɪʃᵊn ðɛn
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You should use international phonetic alphabet for pronunciation then
relevant xkcd
https://xkcd.com/2819/
i hate that i can read this fairly easily
but also the logo for the project is a robot so pronouncing it like that word makes sense and means it won’t be confused with the play: ro-bot, go-dot.