I’m pretty sure this is the same guy who was ranting about Godot “being woke” last year lol

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    So… I actually tinker around in Godot.

    Whilst looking around to see if anyone had, or was developing an extension I would find useful…

    I discovered ‘Redot’.

    Basically, there is a small but very vocal group of people who are very, very angry that a Godot community manager made some pro LGBT, inclusive twitter posts, turned that into a culture war flare up on twitter…

    And then forked Godot.

    To make the anti-woke version of Godot.

    Their youtube channel has, as best I can tell, absolutely no descriptions of any substantial differences from… you know, an actual game engine feature set perspective.

    Beyond of course being behind Godot now, lol.

    What they do have is a bunch of rants about politics and edrama for their ‘non-political’ game engine.

    Also… they pronounce Redot as Re-Dot, hard t.

    Godot is Godot as in Waiting for Godot.

    Go - Dough. God - Oh.

    The t is silent.

    … of course these idiots are literally uncultured and have never read the screenplay or seen the stage play, so they have no idea how to pronounce the word.

    Could have gone with Re - Do, or Re - Dough, those would have been closer, the first at least an obvious allusion to them being a Godot fork.

    But no. Re Dot.

    smdh

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      Okay, as much as I approve of mocking bigots, I didn’t pronounce “Godot” properly for a few years because I had never heard the name spoken before. I’d only ever read it.

      Usually, if a word is used properly, but pronounced wrong, it’s an indicator that the word was learned from reading, not from hearing. Typically, people receptive to learning will try to correct themselves when it’s pointed out. I’m very self conscious of this because I’m awful at pronouncing words.

      But for folks like this, yeah, mock the hell out of them.

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        23 hours ago

        Usually, if a word is used properly, but pronounced wrong, it’s an indicator that the word was learned from reading, not from hearing

        I love when I hear folks do this. It always gives me a little wholesome bump that it’s from reading.

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        Lol grew up reading a lot of books and such, so very similar and I am usually bad at assumed pronunciation, such as godot which is judt learned thanks to this thread.

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        What you’re saying is true, that not knowing how to pronounce aloud a word you’ve only ever read is not some kind of 100% surefire sign you’re a bigot or anything like that.

        It just means, as you say, that you’ve never heard it said aloud.

        But… that also means you never bothered to look up how it is pronounced (its on wikipedia, the actual Godot devs have videos of them saying it, etc)… and it does also mean you presumably are also unfamiliar with Waiting for Godot.

        So I would say you are also ‘uncultured’ in that way, but of course, simply being uncultured doesn’t make one a bigot.

        You could just not have the time, money, etc, to have seen the play before.

        That by no means say anything else really concrete about you, or any other person, if that’s like… the only single datapoint you know about them.

        In all seriousness, I do strongly recommend seeing the actual play, probably you could find a dramatic reading / radio drama version of it somewhere on the net, or even a full video captured performance of it on a forgotten youtube channel or the Internet Archive.

        I… don’t know that its ever been adapted as a proper movie, perhaps a film snob can appear and call me uncultured, haja!

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            Not that I’m aware of, but if you wanna start one, it might be a good idea to not fill it with fabricated quotes that remove all the surrounding context.

            Maybe you could go back to reddit, make a subreddit entirely devoted to shit stirring and drama there?

            Seems like a better fit to me.

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        23 hours ago

        Most of the folks I’ve heard making tutorials about it pronounce it “guhDOUGH.” To get that FOSS cred the name has to be a dumpster fire.

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        21 hours ago

        I’ll say it that way sometimes, haha!

        I also have a tendency to shorten ‘good night’ and ‘good morning’ and even ‘good to see you!’ into just basically g’ with a glottal stop, haha.