My assumption: because people really want it to sound like a real word, but dropping the "N" makes a very unfortunate cognate with an offensive English term, and "FAAMG" doesn't sound like a real word. Netflix is just there to avoid what "FAANG" would be without it.
It’s unfortunate, but this is useful in that it’s easier to pronounce than any other alternative. I guess MANFAG is just as good and saves the spice for the end.
The way things are trending, it's going to be FAAG soon, which is not so good. I guess, technically, it's not F anymore, so it's MAAG, which is almost as perilous. But if we're truly being technical, it's not G, it's a, in which case it's MAAA, in which case we might as well go with GOAT.
Yeah I feel everyone around me who used this word added a bit of a "t" sound to the end. It wasn't until I was an adult I saw it spelled out like "jawn".
I know this is a stupid objection, but I suspect one of the main impedances to takeup is going to be its stupid name. It's trivial I know, bikeshedding I know, but come on, "RELAX NG"?
Like, how do you pronounce that? I want to say 'Relax-ung', but it sounds odd, like you're trying to say "relaxing" but failing; or maybe 'Relax Nig', but that sounds like something you'd see in an HN thread on Timnit Gebru's firing. It doesn't feel like the naming was considered from a normal human point of view, as opposed to from the golden mountain of abstraction.
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