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Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by danaliv » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:15 AM UTC

pacaro wrote: post #2

This is one of those surprisingly useful and obvious things that I'm surprised not to have seen before. Knowledge of (including pronunciation) jargon is a classic gatekeeper In my experience, I'm in the minority in pronouncing sudo as soodoo, the majority seem to say pseudo. OTOH I've never heard anyone say fsck as anything other than f-suck From personal experience at Microsoft the backslash was frequently pronounce…

I was asked the correct pronunciation of /etc in an interview once. Diabolical, if you ask me.

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by saurik » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:15 AM UTC

octotoad wrote: post #3

I’ve never heard anyone say “F stab” for fstab.

FWIW, I have always said "F stab" (for over 25 years now). I doubt I have never even heard anyone else say the term at all, though, so I am a glorious outlier ;P.

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by danaliv » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:16 AM UTC

schoen wrote: post #30

danaliv wrote: post #4

Never heard fsck spelled out. It’s always been /fisk/. I guess that’s the sort of nonsense one should expect from a person who wrongly abhors the great and beautiful emacs. ducks

I'm guessing you mean /fɪsk/ -- almost all -isk words (whisk, disk, risk) are pronounced with /-ɪsk/.

Indeed - I got lazy with the characters there.

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by indigodaddy » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:17 AM UTC

danaliv wrote: post #4

Never heard fsck spelled out. It’s always been /fisk/. I guess that’s the sort of nonsense one should expect from a person who wrongly abhors the great and beautiful emacs. ducks

Weird. I've never heard anyone NOT spell out fsck.

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by city41 » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:18 AM UTC

I always find these interesting. Like the different pronunciations of `char`*. All these strange words that we only read or type 99% of the time but still come up with some kind of pronunciation in our heads.

* I've heard "char" like "charbroiled", "care", "car" and some people always just say "character"

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by nerdponx » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:18 AM UTC

brixie wrote: post #25

I recently wondered about the best way to pronounce commands of the `[...]ctl` family, which seem to get omitted from most of these lists I come across. I personally now use "cuttle", but am curious what others say (for example, Kubernetes [1] is one notable exception, search "cube control"). [1] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGEL...

I say "C T L" as in "system C T L".

But I also capitalize command names like Ls so I'm probably out on my own here.

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by simonblack » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:19 AM UTC

hodgesrm wrote: post #8

MySQL pronunciation can be "My S Q L" or "My Sequel." I think most people in the community probably use the latter, but truthfully most of us don't really care. The "S Q L" vs. "Sequel" split has existed almost as long as SQL itself. The original name for the language was "SEQUEL." [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#History

I read once that somebody pronounced SQL as 'squeal' which leads to mysql being pronounced as 'my-squeal'.

Rightly or wrongly, I prefer that pronunciation too. It's less cumbersome.

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by Blikkentrekker » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:19 AM UTC

danaliv wrote: post #6

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #5

> chmod: as one syllable.. rhymes with 'nod' This is easy to do for many? In my experience, Anglo-Saxons can seldom pronounce “ GNU ” in one syllable, but they can this?

Yup. It’s /shmod/!

Oh, I thought it was /tS m O d/.

/tS/ is quite a different story due to it being an affricative.

Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:20 AM UTC

danaliv wrote: post #4

Never heard fsck spelled out. It’s always been /fisk/. I guess that’s the sort of nonsense one should expect from a person who wrongly abhors the great and beautiful emacs. ducks

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Re: Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc. (2017)

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Post by koolba » Sun, Jan 10, 2021, 6:20 AM UTC

danaliv wrote: post #28

alisonatwork wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think about a lisping pronunciation of smoke, sounding like "shmoke", this is how I imagine it would sound. One syllable. I wonder if the grandparent is French, because I would never have considered to pronounce chmod like this. Then again, I say C H mod and C H own, which apparently isn't the standard pronunciation, so what do I know!

White-bread American Midwesterner. :-) Not sure where I picked this pronunciation up. I think what I’ve learned today is that no one pronounces any of these words even remotely the same! ...and while we’re at it, let’s do “char.”

First half of carrot.