But how did you pronounce "Linux" when reading the title of this post?
Lih-nucks
Lie-nucks
Lee-nooks
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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I pronounce it as "car". Don't know where that came from.
I think this pronunciation sounds right because it comes from "character", which doesn't have the "ch" sound.
'Car' has a different (longer) 'a' to that in 'character', though, is I think the point above.
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#243oh 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'
I've probably never had to say it aloud, and haven't come across that before, internally I've read 'et cetera d' for sure.
That said, 'etsy-dee' is somehow better to me than 'etsy', since it's like 'et C.D.' which makes some sort of sense.
(You could of course make the same argument for 'etsy', it's just that nobody reads 'etc.' as 'et see', it's always 'et cetera'.)
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
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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”.
You're correct, of course. I don't know why I remember it as super user.
Because sudo really was “superuser do” and is unrelated to the UNIX utility “su” (at least by lineage.)
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
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> 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…
Well, that's an explanation, but it's not really excuse. Other languages have had reforms and there is no natural language that I know of that doesn't have major influences from at least 3 or 4 different languages.
English has had it's share of attempted reforms. This attempt shows examples of perfectly fine reforms when you think about it. The proposed spelling is most certainly fine once you're used to it or if it's all you've ever known.
But I have to laf at the thaut of spelling words like this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_refo...
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
#246I found there is this "pride in the correct pronunciation" in the opensource community. It seems to be a signal of a group membership and a creed validator. Who cares though? Why does "correct pronunciation" matter? Linux is nowadays used by many more non-native English speakers who will pronounce it very differently. This attempt at correcting others seems like gatekeeping and, to me personally, feels like a very an…
It is for the same reason that anyone ever nudges anyone else about pronunciation, spelling, or grammar: speed of communication. If you pronounce "/etc" as "et cetera", then it will add a step in me parsing your speech ("Oh, he means 'etsy'"). Second, now I have an awkward decision to make when speaking back to you. Do I adapt my pronunciation to yours for the length of this conversation? Or do I pronounce it my way,…
> awkward decision
I would say unless it's someone extremely junior just use whatever they use. Communication is already difficult enough. "use customer's language", show some empathy
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
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TIL: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/17509 > English words like ‘technology’ stem from a Greek root beginning with the letters τεχ...; and this same Greek word means art as well as technology. Hence the name TeX, which is an uppercase form of τεχ. > Insiders pronounce the χ of TeX as a Greek chi, not as an ‘x’, so that TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh. It’s the ‘ch’ sound in Scottish words like loch or German words…
From your link though, Leslie Lamport disagrees with Knuth (whom I like to pronounce "nuth" but is actually pronounced "ka-nuth"). I'm Greek and I pronounce LaTeX as "LAY-tek". I just tried pronouncing it "LAY-tech" with a Greek "chi" sound ("λέει-τεχ") and I sounded so silly I almost spat my coffee all over my monitor (only "almost" because I wasn't drinking any coffee). Ain't no way I'm calling it that. And note th…
A Heimlicker, I can confirm.
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
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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.
A DBA who didn't pick up that it was 'SQL' being said after the first couple times? :(
Probably a DB2 dba.. to them all other platforms may as well have been made by seagulls.
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
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> The official way to pronounce “MySQL” is “My Ess Que Ell” (not “my sequel”), but we do not mind if you pronounce it as “my sequel” or in some other localized way. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/what-is-mysql.html There's an equivalent page in the SqlServer docs somewhere that recommends SequelServer as the idiomatic pronunciation. I pronounce each of them idiomatically. When saying SQL I tend to say S-Q-L…
The "squirrel" point in your comment was really confusing, it didn't sound like SQL to me at all. Until I realised that you probably mean the American pronunciation of "squirrel" that sounds something like "skwerl"? I grew up calling the animal a "skwi-rull" :)
Still confused about where the “r” would come from.
Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)
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> The official way to pronounce “MySQL” is “My Ess Que Ell” (not “my sequel”), but we do not mind if you pronounce it as “my sequel” or in some other localized way. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/what-is-mysql.html There's an equivalent page in the SqlServer docs somewhere that recommends SequelServer as the idiomatic pronunciation. I pronounce each of them idiomatically. When saying SQL I tend to say S-Q-L…
I've been in the "sequel" camp, but that changes now. I'm not passing up the opportunity to talk to co-workers about "my squirrel".
For it is furry, and will eat your nuts for breakfast.