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it confuses me that he lists brackets as [] but not for (). () are brackets [] are square brackets and {} are curly brackets. certainly if you're from the UK and in maths class grew up being told about: BODMAS - Brackets, Orders Division, Multiplication, Addition Subtraction I believe PEMDAS is more common in the USA
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I care zero, it's still "F stab" to me. And URL is "earl". But despite favoring the short version for those two, I always spell out every letter of SQL, and pronounce etc as "et cetera". None of it is consistent or rational and it doesn't matter because pretty much all of the time people know exactly what you mean. Perhaps I was lucky that one of my first bosses who'd been using UNIX since the 80s pronounced vi like…
I’m glad they corrected me, because I hadn’t realized the “fs” was short for file system. I still don’t know what “-tab” is about, but it’s used a lot in /etc. Maybe because the file formats use \t as separators?
I know Linus is pronounced with an "eye" sound but I still call it "lynn-ucks".
In the old days I configured my sound card enough times that this sentence is burned in my auditory cortex.
I don't want to blame “sharp” for # on Microsoft. Back in the 1970s, it was the standard pronunciation around the University of BC. And in those days, many terminals and other output devices were somewhat low-fidelity, so the difference between the octothorp and the sharp would not have been visible.
Also I'm fairly sure "shebang" is a contraction of "sharp bang".
I've been chroot wrong for years. I learned recently that it's "shroot" not "C. H. root"
I know Linus is pronounced with an "eye" sound but I still call it "lynn-ucks".
Where is the pronunciation guide for daemon?
> ¤ > Sonne So that's what that symbol meant on the good old КУВТ-2. Now my life is complete. Having learned Unix-y stuff in non-English environment, I still pronounce a lot of things in a weird way despite having very little accent otherwise. /etc will always be either "ye-t-k" or "ye-t-tse" and yum will be "yu-oo-m"
It's fun working with people from different countries who have developed their own regional pronunciation. I recall French colleagues pronouncing a lot of stuff that commonly starts with ch- (chroot, chmod, chown etc) with a sh- sound. Other people (including me) pronounce both letters C and H. I like that a lot of common tools don't really have a canonical pronunciation because they have spread in use far beyond the…
Do you mean C as in "s" sound or as in "k" sound, or...?
Oh, the "ctl"s... I got used to pronouncing it at "ka-te-el".
I am glad to see that I have been properly indoctrinated. A little bit disappointed that it doesn't clarify how to pronunciations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetic_transcription ), I was expecting that we could settle on gif once and for all.