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Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by nisse72 »

bch wrote: post #77
hodgesrm wrote: post #8

MySQL 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] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#History

What’s better is that “My” has nothing to do with possession, and it’s pronounced “Me”: it’s Widenius’ daughters name[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius

Well, as a Swedish speaker I will respectfully disagree with your pronunciation. To my ears the the y is not like the e in me, but I can't think of a good English equivalent.

(in fact, the girls name actually sounds like the greek letter "mu" as it's spelled and pronounced in Swedish)

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by elric »

MiguelX413 wrote: post #89
dschuetz wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jeez, how did you get from correct pronunciation to anti-inclusive ?! Most people just want to know what you are talking about when you say libe or cat slash prots slash mem in fo or worse. Nothing is more infuriating when people start using wrong words in a 10h telco instead of agreed upon vocabulary, which includes the correct pronunciation! Scratch correct . It's the agreed upon pronunciation we all ought to use w…

Can you not understand that the complaint is about the “correct” pronunciation being unintuitive?

What is or isn't intuitive depends highly on context and background. Good luck finding something that's intuitive for everyone. People have tried and failed with artificial languages.

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by lloeki »

Daneel_ wrote: post #9
pacaro wrote: post #2

This 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.

Nitpick: su is “substitute user” (sometimes switch user), it merely defaults to root.

man su:

    su - run a command with substitute user and group ID
As for fsck I moved from F S C K to progressively bind the S and C in a slide of the tongue, which ends up sounding like F-ceek once I’ve eased in the audience with F-(s)ceek(ay) (parentheses get progressively toned down as I speak faster)

That or just “FS check”.

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by dj_mc_merlin »

elric wrote: post #90
Blikkentrekker wrote: post #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?

> Anglo-Saxons can seldom pronounce “GNU” in one syllable That's ... weird. It's pretty similar to "knee", but with an "oo" sound. Are you saying people pronounce "ge-noo"?

Hehe, the point is the "g" or "k" should not be silent if you actually want to pronounce "GNU" or "knee".. but in English they generally are. In other languages the sound produced is a more guttural but fully enunciated word (if I knew more linguistics I'd find the international phonetics for it).

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by jcfields »

stouset wrote: post #50
Daneel_ wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I’ve always called it “fusck”.

That’s how I hear it in my head, probably from years of reading it as a stand-in for profanity on Slashdot and the like.
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