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« on: Sep 03, 2008, 07:14 AM »
I have always thought of it as mod-x, where the mod sounds like the mod in "mod squad" or "module". However I recently watched a video tour of modx in youTube (very good video series on modx BTW) where the author pronounces it mode-x. Although 100% fluent in english, I have been living oversees for a long time so I may have a distorted understanding.

In (Brazillian) Portuguese it would be mod. The x in potuguese sounds like 'cheez' (not quite cheese but close to it), so the Portuguese pronunciation is mod-cheez.

So, how do you pronounce it.
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« Reply #1 on: Sep 03, 2008, 07:25 AM »
I always thought it was pronounced like "Mahhhd x" Smiley but then again I'm a redneck lol
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« Reply #2 on: Sep 03, 2008, 07:29 AM »
Quote from: Breezer on Sep 03, 2008, 07:25 AM
I always thought it was pronounced like "Mahhhd x" Smiley but then again I'm a redneck lol
ROFL That might not be far from the truth  Grin Grin
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« Reply #3 on: Sep 03, 2008, 08:31 AM »
Oh... another modx redneck to join me and ChuckTrukk! Smiley

Makes me feel all nice 'n welcome and such like.
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« Reply #4 on: Sep 03, 2008, 11:40 PM »
Nobody is going to get me to say "mode - ex" without aiming a weapon of some kind at me.  Wink
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« Reply #5 on: Sep 03, 2008, 11:44 PM »
Indeed. Mode-x rates right up there with line-ux!
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« Reply #6 on: Sep 04, 2008, 02:54 PM »
since I'm Belgian, I'd pronounce it Modx-ix ... well Belgian people can be a little strange though... :x
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« Reply #7 on: Sep 04, 2008, 07:47 PM »
one of my clients, in Mexico, wrote it -- modecs -- maybe he had in mind the Aztec Codecs or something....
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« Reply #8 on: Sep 04, 2008, 08:00 PM »
"mod" as in modular, "x" as extendable. "modx" (mahd ecks)
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« Reply #9 on: Sep 04, 2008, 09:12 PM »
I pronounce it mod-ex with the emphasis on the mod.

charliez the reason modecs would be spelled that way in Mexico is because IIRC "x" is sort of a soft sound--phonetically modecs is how I pronounce it.

In any event I'd take mahhd-ecks for the 'Mericans in the south'rn parts and us up north might pronounce it Modd-ecks. Mode-ecks sounds like someone being a snob.
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« Reply #10 on: Sep 04, 2008, 10:15 PM »
yeah, the x in Mexico has several pronunciations (I am in Mexico too)

I also, pronounce it modecs phpnetically, that is probably why the client wrote it like that, I told him
on the phone we use modx...

mode-ecks must be with vanilla ice cream on the side.... Cheesy
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« Reply #11 on: Sep 15, 2008, 09:55 AM »
Well I`m from London so for me its "mod" as in mods from the 60's aka paul weller, the jam etc and "x"
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« Reply #12 on: Sep 15, 2008, 10:07 AM »
 Grin cool post in Bulgarian is: МОД-ЕКС (like ~ "mode - ex" )
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« Reply #13 on: Sep 15, 2008, 04:54 PM »
yup redneck here. i try to shorten it when im talking to other folks, but my wife thinks it's maaaaahd-x =)
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« Reply #14 on: Sep 18, 2008, 01:16 AM »
I pronounce it "joomla".
Then I wake up in a cold sweat, screaming and sobbing.

No, really though, I pronounce it the "proper" way Wink
"mod" as in "module".

I've had one client that just would always say "mode x". He was a semi-native Spanish speaker, so it kind of made sense, as the "o" in Spanish would definitely be a "mode" pronunciation. Still super annoying though Wink
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