ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
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ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
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Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#2Around ten years ago I worked as an instructor teaching people programming here in Sweden. My company decided I did such a good job they would send me over to their parent company in the UK to teach some classes there. I knew the material by heart so, no problem, I thought.
I quickly discovered, right in front of the class at the white board with marker in hand, with my first " { " written, that being fluent in English was NOT the same as being fluent in Spoken Programmer English.
My second realization was that almost nobody in the United Kingdom spoke a dialect of English that I could comprehend, but that's another story.
Bonus info: { } are called commonly called måsvingar/seagull wings in Swedish, which really gave me no hint at all what to call them in English.
Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#3No reference to {} as mustaches? Three years are a long time.
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#4This is a blessing for, I imagine, everyone who has learnt computer programming in a non-English-speaking country.
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#5` as backtick is rare? I thought it was the standard.
Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#6He should have also listed "#!" AKA "shebang" / "hashbang"
Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#7` as backtick is rare? I thought it was the standard.
Where are you from? I've actually never heard it before (in the US).
Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#8One of my co-workers uses "cash" for $. I think that's the worst possible choice for pronunciation since it sounds just like "cache", which is another thing you need to talk about fairly frequently.
Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#9Re: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers [2008]
#10It's also in (and probably a copy of) the Jargon File:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html