Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
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I remember that now when someone pronounces something as it’s spelled. They’ve likely been studying by actually reading something, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
(caricature)
It's hard not to forgive people to pronounce your name wrong, when they've never met you or anyone that pronounces it correctly. They've only read it on the screen and they still say your name as best they can.
Do you also (and correctly, I might add) decry the errors of the Anglosphere as Mr. Wirth did[0][1]?
Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his
name correctly (Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into
(Nick-les Worth). Which is to say that Europeans call him by name,
but Americans call him by value.
[1] No, this is nothing new. Then again, perhaps someone will see it for the first time and be one of today's "lucky 10,000"[2]
Then I heard a younger co-worker do it while we were talking about sh code and felt bad for unintentionally infecting him with a nonsense habit.
I also loved they pointed out pronouncing `regex` as "rejects" was wrong.
Since regex ultimately comes from Latin and has a g followed by an e, pronouncing it with a soft g is rather natural.
> 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.
That's the Mad Magazine Knuth speaking: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-enduring-art-of-computer-p...
`seq`, `Eq`, `prev` I pronounce like the beginnings of the underlying words, so I'd say pronounce-then-abbreviate and abbreviate-then-pronounce yield the same result.
I guess this implies people are saying "SECK" (`seq`) and "ECK" (`Eq`), rhyming `prev` with "rev", and pronouncing `id` like Freud's id? (Eek.)
In fairness, I'll confess I pronounce `enum` "E-NUM", not "E-NOOM".
Do you pronounce it as "eyed", or as two letters, I-D?
Javascript should obviously be pronounced Yavascript.
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.
There are dozens of dialects/pronunciation styles in the US. What you may have heard from some US folks isn't what you'll hear from others.
As an American who lives in the US, I have never heard anyone say 'Ay-zure', WRT to either the color or the "someone else's server' offering from Microsoft.
As for Mobile, there are multiple pronunciations in various places around the US. Anything from 'mo-b-aye-l' (as you Aussies say) to 'mob-ill' (as in mafia) to 'Moe-bill' (as in one of the Three Stooges) to 'Mo-beel'.
Then again, I live on the east coast and those west coast weirdos sure do talk funny.
Edit: Clarified "pronunciation" of Mobile (with long 'o' and 'i' and silent 'e').
You can mispronounce all sorts of things in the US and no one will blink an eye, but you mispronounce a town name, prepare to be dogpiled. Especially if you're in Palestine, Texas (Pal-es-teen NOT Pal-es-tine).
The way I learned it (US), "mo-bile" is the adjective for something that can move, "mo-beel" is a noun for the thing that you hang over a baby's cradle.
That's also mo-bile in my experience, unless you've been hanging snowmobiles...
Glad I'm not alone heh
I also enjoy reading SciPy as "skippy".
I don't think there are sounds like 'ö', 'ij', or 'ui' in English. note: 'uy' is the 16th century spelling of current 'ui'.
Also sea hash turned out to be sea sharp.
This irked me when I learned it as I'm into both tech and music, but it never once occurred to me to apply the music convention to a tech name.
I also recall in the early 2000's hearing people call .html files "hotmail files".
> "pwah-SOHN", with a nasally ending, because French
Je refuse.
This is just aus vs us English.
I don't think I've ever said anything other than postgres
especially the sense of humor... like on gif
Shouldn't hackernews take some accountability as to why they flagged it or what
HUH??
Not sure how an American would pronounce "oiler" but if it's "oil" as in "sunflower oil" then that's a pretty good emulation of the original German pronounciation of "Euler"...
Another anology
Euler-Room Boiler-Room
Roughly the same. (Minus the B of course)