Spyke

Same here. But I'd not be surprised if we have Cabin for kbin at some point.

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southern accent

Hey y'all, we're headin' down 'er to m'k'bin on the bayou this weeken' if ya wanna tagalong

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kbin.social

Kay-bin for sure. Never occurred to me to pronounce it the other way

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kbin.social

I wouldn't trust my kids around someone that pronounces it k'bin

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Ragnellreply
kbin.social

I thought in Klingon they pronounced those kind of names like Kay-bin

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Ferkreply
kbin.social

I don't think Klingon has a K' anywhere, in fact in Klingon it would be written "Q" and followed by some vowel, like in Qapla' or in Qi'yaH

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That's still likely a mistransliteration (or maybe because those are proper names), but Klingon has only "q" and "Q" (which depending on the capitalization are pronounced differently, treated as different letters), technically there's no "K" in the Klingon alphabet, you can see it in the pIqaD:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:KLI_pIqaD.svg

Similar as with the "f" from "Worf", there wouldn't be a straight "non-destructive" way to write it in Klingon.

CC: @Ragnell

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I say kay-bin, because it kind of looks like it should sound like that, imo.

K'bin feels like I'm just trying to make the word as short as possible.

Cabin or Ki-bin both feel like I'm adding new letters just because. To me, it would be like calling reddit "reddita" or "reedit".

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kbin.social

Kay-bin seems like the only correct way. Cabin or K'bin just feels wrong for no particular reason. The name honestly just makes me think of KDE.

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Kay-bin. Mostly because when I first saw the name I assumed it was a KDE package.

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minnieoreply
kbin.social

same here, i didnt know i was in the minority on this one lol

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kbin.social

Non-native speaker here. I get kay-bin, but how are you supposed to say k'bin?

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Kuh-bin, with the first syllable short and emphasis on the second.

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i do kih bin. kih rhyming with like "fi" in fill or "pi" in pill

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kbin.social

When I refer to the threadiverse in general (including “I saw a post on on…”) I just say lemmy. I actually really dislike the name “kbin”.

No sense in explaining it tho, cuz if you don’t get it, you won’t get it.

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cutitdownreply
kbin.social

Interesting. For some reason kbin sounds better than lemmy to me, but don't super love either.

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In spanish you are likely to default to k'bin (cabin).
Letter K pronunciation varies across the globe, so I think everyone will have variations of it.

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Ori
sacredori.net

I switch between kay-bin and kebin (like Kevin with a b).

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Itty53reply
kbin.social

Native English speakers rarely realize how similar B and V sounds are virtually everywhere else in the world.

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Kay-bin.

It reminds me of the property manager at my first apartment, back in 1990. She spelled her name "K'ren", and I assumed it was pronounced either Karen, or kuh-Ren. Nope. It was "KAAAAYYY-WRREE-NNN", three syllables in her very southern accent. The stress was on both of the first two syllables. 😂️

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