Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
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Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#2This is one of those surprisingly useful and obvious things that I'm surprised not to have seen before.
Knowledge of (including pronunciation) jargon is a classic gatekeeper
In my experience, I'm in the minority in pronouncing sudo as soodoo, the majority seem to say pseudo. OTOH I've never heard anyone say fsck as anything other than f-suck
From personal experience at Microsoft the backslash was frequently pronounced "whack" (hence whack whack for unc paths), and the ubiquitous error codes like 0xC0000005 were "c-bazillion-5"
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#3I’ve never heard anyone say “F stab” for fstab.
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#4Never heard fsck spelled out. It’s always been /fisk/.
I guess that’s the sort of nonsense one should expect from a person who wrongly abhors the great and beautiful emacs.
ducks
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#5> chmod: as one syllable.. rhymes with 'nod'
This is easy to do for many?
In my experience, Anglo-Saxons can seldom pronounce “GNU” in one syllable, but they can this?
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#6> chmod: as one syllable.. rhymes with 'nod' This is easy to do for many? In my experience, Anglo-Saxons can seldom pronounce “ GNU ” in one syllable, but they can this?
Yup. It’s /shmod/!
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#7To me etc is pronounced "etch".
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#8MySQL pronunciation can be "My S Q L" or "My Sequel." I think most people in the community probably use the latter, but truthfully most of us don't really care. The "S Q L" vs. "Sequel" split has existed almost as long as SQL itself. The original name for the language was "SEQUEL." [1]
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#9This is one of those surprisingly useful and obvious things that I'm surprised not to have seen before. Knowledge of (including pronunciation) jargon is a classic gatekeeper In my experience, I'm in the minority in pronouncing sudo as soodoo, the majority seem to say pseudo. OTOH I've never heard anyone say fsck as anything other than f-suck From personal experience at Microsoft the backslash was frequently pronounce…
I was a su-dough person until I realise that sudo stands for 'super user do' or 'su do', so I switched to soodoo - it makes a lot more sense that way.
f-suck is a new one for me though. I would say F S C K to someone else, but I call it fusk in my head.
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#10> chmod: as one syllable.. rhymes with 'nod' This is easy to do for many? In my experience, Anglo-Saxons can seldom pronounce “ GNU ” in one syllable, but they can this?
I have no idea how to pronounce this as one syllable, it's always been che-mod to me. Chown is one syllable though, I agree there.