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Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong

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Post by nozzlegear »

nlitsme wrote: post #67

It seems Americans always screw up German names, like Gödel, Schrödinger. So are Dutch names like Dijkstra, Huygens. I don't think there are sounds like 'ö', 'ij', or 'ui' in English. note: 'uy' is the 16th century spelling of current 'ui'.

As far as Dijkstra and Huygens go, those are somewhat common last names where I live in Iowa, so their pronunciations have surely been Americanized a long time ago. I'd pronounce them as "deekstra"/"dikestra" and "hi-ginz," and that's how the people I know with those names pronounce them.

Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong

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Post by quercusa »

mananaysiempre wrote: post #32
RheingoldRiver wrote: post #6

LaTeX is....controversial. I say "LAH-tek" but I've heard a lot of different pronunciations. LaTeX was the original gif fight haha

That’s one controversy that shouldn’t be. Quoth Knuth ( The TeXbook , chapter 1, “The name of the game”): > 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 like ach; it’s a Spanish ‘j’ and a Russian ‘kh’. When you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist.

> TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh

That's the Mad Magazine Knuth speaking: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-enduring-art-of-computer-p...

Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong

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Post by elaus »

I feel like hardly anyone in Germany knows how to pronounce Azure (myself included for the longest time). There are no other common words like it, and what feels like the most obvious pronunciation is far from the correct one.

Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong

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Post by popularrecluse »

RankingMember wrote: post #30
gibbitz wrote: post #3

> GIF like "gif", of course I also loved they pointed out pronouncing `regex` as "rejects" was wrong.

I don't care what the creators say, I will die on the hill of it being gif with a hard G! :P

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Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong

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Post by pan69 »

elaus wrote: post #83

I feel like hardly anyone in Germany knows how to pronounce Azure (myself included for the longest time). There are no other common words like it, and what feels like the most obvious pronunciation is far from the correct one.

Here in Australia it's typical to say Ah-zure (Ah as in Aha) where as Americans typically say Ay-zure (Ay as in the name Jay).

There are many differences in pronunciation between English from various countries. E.g. in Australia we say Mo-bile were "bile" rhymes with "vile" whereas Americans typically pronounce it as Mo-bol.

There are lots of others.

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