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Re: A new Curl logo

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Post by notduncansmith »

efaref wrote: post #24

For something that claims to "grok" URLs, using "://" as part of the logo seems to be misunderstanding how URLs (are supposed to) work. According to RFC3986, URIs (the proper name; URLs are a kind of URI) are correctly of the form: : For some schemes, the may contain a , the format for which is: // [/ ] | So it's only hierarchical URIs with a defined authority that have the (admittedly iconic) "://" in them. I know m…

Not to mention that Tim Berners-Lee himself says that the // was superfluous in retrospect. Regardless, I don't think that paying homage to a widely-known idiosyncrasy of our technological evolution is the worst way to go for a project like curl (a historic project in its own right).

Re: A new Curl logo

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Post by AstroJetson »

Crespyl wrote: post #61
AstroJetson wrote: post #42

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Another one is Tuple (like in a data base) Too pool -or- Tup ulll -or- Tup lee So many choice from just five letters....

I'd always heard "Two Pull"s as the one true way, not to be confused with "Triple"s. "Tup Lee" just seems silly.

Not to pick on the place that invented "Sweet Tea" and BBQ, but in the south, ya'll just need to drag out those vowels....

Re: A new Curl logo

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Post by artmageddon »

victorr wrote: post #37
8ig8 wrote: post #21

I just realized after all these years, I think I've been saying the name wrong. In my head, I say "curl" as in curly hair. It's really "see-url"!? I think it's too late for my brain to correct that.

I've made this mistake with LaTeX. I was so embarrassed when someone told me "Its pronounced lah-tekh".

Really? I thought it was "lay-tack".

Re: A new Curl logo

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Post by Bromskloss »

maggit wrote: post #46
victorr wrote: post #37

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I've made this mistake with LaTeX. I was so embarrassed when someone told me "Its pronounced lah-tekh".

You shouldn't feel embarrassed about how you pronounce LaTeX. In the words of its creator Leslie Lamport: > One of the hardest things about LaTeX is deciding how to pronounce it.This is also one of the few things I'm not going to tell you about LaTeX, since pronunciation is best determined by usage, not fiat. TeX is usually pronounced teck, making lah-teck, and lay-teck the logical choices; but language is not always…

The Knuth quotation from your link:

> 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.

Surely, we should be insiders.

Re: A new Curl logo

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Post by Daviey »

divbyzer0 wrote: post #101
gregmac wrote: post #53

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Wait, is that wrong? I've only ever met a single person that pronounced URL like "Earl". Everyone else says the letters, and thus, you get "see you are ell". I tend to go back and forth with cURL, sometimes calling it "kurl". Same problem with SQL. Is it "ess que ell" or "sequel"?

On one occasion I overheard SQL pronounced as squeal. Stunned into silence.

Many people use 'seaqual' if that is what you mean.. I don't think it is rare.

Re: A new Curl logo

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Post by dang »

nowprovision wrote: post #48

I presume the downvoting is for the word shit, have to fucking love hipster news.

Please don't post comments like this. The HN guidelines ask you not to go on about getting downvoted; unfair downvotes are usually corrected by the community; and it's in bad taste to diss a community that you're as much a part of as anyone.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11785541 and marked it off-topic.

Re: A new Curl logo

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Post by qbrass »

Daviey wrote: post #116
divbyzer0 wrote: post #101

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On one occasion I overheard SQL pronounced as squeal. Stunned into silence.

Many people use 'seaqual' if that is what you mean.. I don't think it is rare.

"Squeal", like a pig. Not "Sequel" like 'Babe: pig in the city'.

Re: A new Curl logo

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Post by lucideer »

tomlong wrote: post #107
lucideer wrote: post #67

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Tuple is a mathematical term predating computers, and the "-tuple" suffix is older again, so pronunciation shouldn't be as ambiguous as the other, newly invented terms. (It's historically rhymed with couple) On the other hand, a lot of Latin-originating words have had their pronunciations changed in US English, the canonical example being data (from UK English "da-ta" to US English "day-ta", which has now begun to be…

Surely day-ta and da-ta are the wrong way round there?

Unless I've worded it confusingly, I don't think so...
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