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I've made this mistake with LaTeX. I was so embarrassed when someone told me "Its pronounced lah-tekh".
Another one is Tuple (like in a data base) Too pool -or- Tup ulll -or- Tup lee So many choice from just five letters....
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Wait, is that wrong? I've only ever met a single person that pronounced URL like "Earl". Everyone else says the letters, and thus, you get "see you are ell". I tend to go back and forth with cURL, sometimes calling it "kurl". Same problem with SQL. Is it "ess que ell" or "sequel"?
The nice thing about SQL and URL is that they're so widely used in our profession that regardless of how you say them you will be understood easily. Some people say "ess que ell" and others say "sequel" and that's fine; everyone understands everyone. It's unconventional pronunciations of less common initialisms that cause problems.
SQL -> "sequel", how could we know?
For something that claims to "grok" URLs, using "://" as part of the logo seems to be misunderstanding how URLs (are supposed to) work. According to RFC3986, URIs (the proper name; URLs are a kind of URI) are correctly of the form: : For some schemes, the may contain a , the format for which is: // [/ ] | So it's only hierarchical URIs with a defined authority that have the (admittedly iconic) "://" in them. I know m…
Every time I see the word grok I grok in my mouth a little.
I have always been a fan of wget, but upon searching around for some of the differences I came across this: https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html Which is a pretty good summary of the similarities and differences, and it makes me want to try curl a bit more than I have in the past, especially the support for scp and cifs.
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It's like people who think after many years of programming that "char" is actually pronounced "care". Nope. In real life people just read things. "char" the stick in the fire all day long.
I still say 'car' in my head. Hardest one for me was 'it-erator' instead of 'eye-terator'. I still lapse and use the latter on accident out of habit!
'char' : as in charcoal
'car' : pronounced like a car, used as (car (cons 'a 'b))
'cdr' : supposed to be 'could-er', but I flip between cee-derr and could-er
'cadaddr' : prounounced 'why'
I kid a little, but it's funny to hear these things, especially when it's from somebody from a foreign country. It wasn't until grad school that I realized there's so many different ways to pronounce keywords.
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That reminds me that I had been using sudo for close to 15 years before I realized that it was a combination of 'su' and 'do.' I'm still not sure if it's properly pronounced 'pseudo' or 'sue-doo', but it really blew my mind once I figured out the name. Edit: Changed 'sue-do' to 'sue-doo' to make it less ambiguous.
I was a bit disappointed when I discovered that "su" doesn't stand for superuser but for the rather bland "set uid".
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That reminds me that I had been using sudo for close to 15 years before I realized that it was a combination of 'su' and 'do.' I'm still not sure if it's properly pronounced 'pseudo' or 'sue-doo', but it really blew my mind once I figured out the name. Edit: Changed 'sue-do' to 'sue-doo' to make it less ambiguous.
I was a bit disappointed when I discovered that "su" doesn't stand for superuser but for the rather bland "set uid".
I just realized after all these years, I think I've been saying the name wrong. In my head, I say "curl" as in curly hair. It's really "see-url"!? I think it's too late for my brain to correct that.
Speaking of potentially ambiguous pronunciations, I recently learned that Dr. Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite, pronounce it Es Que Ell-ite or Sequel-ite, the -ite postfix being inspired by minerals/rocks (like stalagmite). Source: https://changelog.com/201/
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It's like people who think after many years of programming that "char" is actually pronounced "care". Nope. In real life people just read things. "char" the stick in the fire all day long.
I still say 'car' in my head. Hardest one for me was 'it-erator' instead of 'eye-terator'. I still lapse and use the latter on accident out of habit!