Never 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
Weird. I've never heard anyone NOT spell out fsck.
f-sick over here.
Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
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Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#112This 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…
> pseudo
I'm originally Italian and my English is now quite good. A very, very common mistake among most "mediterranean" and "romance languages" (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, Romanian) people when speaking English is to pronounce ps as in "pissed" without the "i", instead of just the "s" (the "p" is silent), which is the correct way to pronounce it in English.
Another very common mistake in my language group is the "gn", as in signal.
Correct English is sig-nal [0], while my group usually says it with a different "gn" sound [1].
Well, there's much more, of course, but I wanted to share these two just because, anecdotally, I hear the mistake very often.
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#113oh god /etc as ‘etsy’? no way. never heard it called that, don’t want to (british)
FWIW, it's very common in my company. That said, I think if you came to interview with me and you'd say "e t c," that'd be totally fine. If you said "et cetera," I'd be confused for a bit, but personally, I wouldn't care.
Same with curl. Is it "curl" or "c URL"? Who cares...
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#114lol at the last tip (⌐■_■)
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#115oh god /etc as ‘etsy’? no way. never heard it called that, don’t want to (british)
100% agree (also British). Been working with Kubernetes full time for 2 years now and I still hate 'etsyd'
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#116Earlier 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…
> It's the agreed upon pronunciation we all ought to use when working together. Agreed upon by whom? By the in-group? Why does this "agreed-upon pronunciation" take precedence over the "agreed-upon pronunciation" of English?
Because what you call "in-group" is just a bunch of professionals that are working hard on making thier lives easier. One of the results of this collective effort is a consensus (more or sometimes less established, depending on the term) on the pronounciation. It usually doesn't make sense to disturb this for every single person that has a different "intuition" about how words should be pronounced.
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#117I always say 'bin' as 'bine' in relation to the folder. This is a hill I will die on. It's short for binary. And a 'bin' is where you put your rubbish, not your hard work.
Do you also call /lib 'libe'? Or are you okay with 'lib' as it's not conflicting with other meanings?
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#118To me etc is pronounced "etch".
Since the /etc pronunciation was first in the list, I initially thought this might be some joke list of crazy pronunciations until I saw the rest. Do people really say "etsy" when referring to /etc? I've never ever heard anyone say this. Usually I hear the spelled out E-T-C and occasionally "et cetera" but never "etsy"
There are plenty of us out here. etsy all the way.
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#119- ifconfig: eye eff config (not “iff-config”) - “#!”: hash bang (not “shub-ang”) - sh: shuh like le as in le monde (not “ess ayche”) - tcl: tickle One of the hardest for me though is on a different topic to pronunciation. What name would you give to a variable that keeps track of the current working directory? What name did bash use for this variable? Answers (for me): - pwd: is “print working directory” - $PWD: is “…
Agreed on hashbang. It's melifluous to say "hash bang bin bash" - ahhhh :)
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