Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
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Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
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Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#2"Euler" instead of "Oiler"
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#3> GIF
like "gif", of course
I also loved they pointed out pronouncing `regex` as "rejects" was wrong.
Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#4I don't know, but it will always be "vyte".
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#5Regex should be "reg-ex" rather than any of the listed pronunciations since it's just short for regular expression
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#6LaTeX is....controversial. I say "LAH-tek" but I've heard a lot of different pronunciations. LaTeX was the original gif fight haha
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#7I used to mispronounce Redis too and I fully fault the "MongoDB is web scale"[0] video for that.
Glad I'm not alone heh
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#8Took me years to realize Linux wasn't lie-nix. Some of my friends had been calling it that and it seems we were a bubble of wrong. There's also the lee-noox camp but that's just weird.
Also sea hash turned out to be sea sharp.
Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#9JEE-rah, not GY-rah
Re: Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
#10Regex should be "reg-ex" rather than any of the listed pronunciations since it's just short for regular expression
I think it's ambiguous whether to pronounce then abbreviate or abbreviate then pronounce. Here are some example from the Haskell world: