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

Post by zerocrates » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 5:38 PM UTC

majewsky wrote: post #215

ajdude wrote: post #205

I’m 31 years old and have been using Linux most of my life. A few of my friends and people at work do too, but this is the first time I’ve heard /etc pronounced as etsy. It’s always been “etcetera” for me. This led me to look up the history of that directory: “ But people encountered a situation to keep some files which can be a config file or a data file or a socket file or some other files. So they implemented a fo…

I pronounce it "etsy". "et cetera" was never an option for me because I learned that it's short for "editable text configuration". (Also "et cetera" just doesn't make much sense. If anything, /usr is "et cetera".)

Post by zerocrates » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 5:45 PM UTC

oblio wrote: post #135

Speaking of silly pronunciations, you silly native English speakers :-p Character/karacter but char/char? What is wrong with your language? :-(

Post by YeGoblynQueenne » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 5:51 PM UTC

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #214

oblio wrote: post #135

Speaking of silly pronunciations, you silly native English speakers :-p Character/karacter but char/char? What is wrong with your language? :-(

> What is wrong with your language? It's an insane amalgamation of other languages with occasional attempts at consistency that actually make it worse. Imagine a library written in C+asm, then with parts grafted on written in idiomatic Pascal, then the whole mess ported to Java without changing any naming or structure. Every other method has a different namingConvention, if_notHybrid, to say nothing of other style as…

Post by bch » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:09 PM UTC

jlgaddis wrote: post #222

bch wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

And "MariaDB" was named after another of his daughters. If memory serves, he also has a son (whose name I can't remember) after which he named some other piece of software (which I also can't remember). All of this is almost certainly mentioned in that link you shared although, at the moment, I just can't be bothered to click it.

Post by hyperdimension » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:18 PM UTC

dingaling wrote: post #153

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

I once received a document from an offshore DBA who had written 'seagull' for every instance of 'SQL' because that's what he thought was being said on conference calls. Personally I cut it down the middle and go with 'squill' but then I always said 'scizzy' instead of 'scuzzy' for SCSI.