I worked with a guy who pronounced vi as "six".
I always said "vee-aye" for vi, but I just say "vim" like it looks like it should be said. If it actually stood for "VI Improved" it should be "viim" (pronounced veem?).
Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
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Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#102The article mentions GNU, and it took me a long time until I found out that English speakers pronounce it "noo", "new" or similar. My native language routinely has four consonants in a row, sometimes more, and gn is a perfectly common consonant sequence so it never occurred to me that the GNU project could be pronounced as anything but gnu. Turns out English speakers intuitively drop the initial g, or often have to i…
I hate to helk, it’s a G-noo. https://youtu.be/j53z6RfFb7U
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#103LaTeX 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.
the controversy isnt `ck` vs `x`, it's LAH-tek vs LAY-tek vs lah-TEK vs lay-TEK
Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#104LaTeX is....controversial. I say "LAH-tek" but I've heard a lot of different pronunciations. LaTeX was the original gif fight haha
Well, first of all LaTeX is derived from TeX. And the X isn't an x but the Greek letter X whose pronunciation seems to depend on Greek epoch and also geographic preferences. The final say would have Donald Knuth. I think he said it's like the Ch in (Happy) Chanukka ...
And again, a case where the creator could have done everyone a favor and not given it an obscure name that only an academic (and probably not many of those) would be able to pronounce correctly.
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#105> repo: "REE-poh", not "REH-poh"
This is just aus vs us English.
Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#106Idempotent anyone? Eye-dempotent or id-empotent?
I'd say it's e-dem-po-tent. Not eye, but eagle.
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#108I've always pronounced 'pypi' as pie-pie and assumed it's a homonym pun.
Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#109The article mentions GNU, and it took me a long time until I found out that English speakers pronounce it "noo", "new" or similar. My native language routinely has four consonants in a row, sometimes more, and gn is a perfectly common consonant sequence so it never occurred to me that the GNU project could be pronounced as anything but gnu. Turns out English speakers intuitively drop the initial g, or often have to i…
It's not entirely dropped, it's a glottal 'g' that manifests mostly as a slight pause instead of a sound, although you can often see the larynx movement.
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#110JEE-rah, not GY-rah
/me pronounces something unprintable