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chrismcf
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! - Bang
# - Pound (or hash)
@ - at
^ - caret
~ - tilde
' - tick
` - backtick
( - paren
) - close paren
{ - bracket
} - close bracket
/ - slash (or whack)
\ - backslash (or backwhack, sometimes 'escape')
| - pipe
- - tack (as in the thumb kind, 'tar -c' is "tar tack c")
$ - dollar
& - and
* - splat
#! - shbang
< - less than
> - greater than (shouldn't there be better names for these?)
Qt - Que-tee (I keep trying cute, but it just doesn't stick)
Linux - Lynnux |
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fernandotcl
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Here goes a question. What about BIOS? B-I-O-S or as written? 
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porodzila
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Clete2
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| hook wrote: | funny, i never thought someone would try to sound Linux as Unix  ....i never heard it ....everybody in slovenia (or any other person i met) was pronouncing it like the founder's name
oh, one thing: vi ... i heard a lot of names for it:
- V-I
- vee (<- in slovenia)
- (and even!!) six (as a roman 6 = VI)
and another one: i've allways (except when i use the slovene name for it) called # hash |
Funny because I haven't heard anyone pronounce it like the founder. I always say it with a short i. (USA )
(sorry if I bumped this topic too much)
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dirtyepic`
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! - ex or ex mark
@ - at
# - pound
$ - i don't even have a word in my head for this. speaking i'll say dollar sign.
& - and or amp
* - star
- - dash (ls dash la)
>> - into (ls dash la into somefile)
() - brackets
[] - brackets
{} - braces / curly brackets
" - quote
/etc - ekk-ts (yeah it's inside out i know ;d)
/lib - lib (not "libe")
cache - ka-shay (i'm trying to unlearn this)
bios - bye-oss (i've heard "bioze" from some ppl which just sounds wrong)
misc - misk
fsck - fisk
vi - vye
nano - nah-no (heard nay-no)
.gif - guh-iff (i know it's wrong, but jiff is a peanut butter)
.bmp - dotbump
.png - dotping
.avi - eh vee eye (not avy)
.mpg - em peg (not em pee gee)
tcl - tee cee ell
gaim - game
now here's one i wonder about:
PCMCIA - i say pee-cee-meese-a, confident i sound like a retard |
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Omega21
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KDE - K-D-E
GNOME- Ga-Nomm
Linux - Linnucs
XFCE- XFace
QT- Cutey
w00t - Woot
! - Bang
# - hash
* - asterik
~ - HOW DO YOU PRONOUCE THIS??? Tildey is it?
GNU - Jee-enn-you
Gentoo - Gen-tu (I know your supposed to say Jentu, but Gentoo sounds
better! )
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tbg
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I guess I say "slash e t c" even though any english speaker recognizes it as "et cetera" - it's just faster for me to say "slash e t c".
I thought it was ok to say "my sequel", which came as a relief to me because that's the way I say it.
one oddity: I am a very old C programmer and for some reason, I learned to pronounce char as "car" (perhaps the person who taught me C knew Lisp) and not "char", which still sounds strange to me.
a friend of mine pronounes the g in "gigabit" as a soft g (like Giovanni in Italian). I always say "gigabit" with a hard g like "get me out of here". he even says "Jig" for "gig" which sounds really strange to me.
I always say "gun new" for gnu but "nome" for gnome. |
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dirtyepic`
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| Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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he probably watched back to the future.
1.21 jigawatts!
;)
but saying jig instead of gig deserves a shovelbeating (christopher lloyd excluded). |
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opqdonut
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Just my two eurocents:
Finnish is my mother tongue so i pronounce acronyms the finnish way:
SSH: äs äs hoo (or 'as as haw' anglicized)
KDE: koo dee ee (caw dee ee with 'ee' as in fret except longer)
linux: liinuks, just as linus intended it, except with a shorter i.
VI: vi as in vixen
gnome: g-nome
gnu: g-noo
gnumeric: g-numeric
and so on..
irc: uhrk if speaking english, irk with an i as in tin otherwise
/etc: ee tee see if english, same if finnish, except ee is as in 'fret'
/usr: probably user if english, haven't actually tried, usr in finnish with an u like 'food' except shorter
gentoo: ghen-too (when in finnish, oo as in 'flop' but longer) |
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cs02rm0
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/etc - et cetera
{ - open curly brace
} - close curly brace
^ - circumflex
GNU - new
Gnome - nome as in garden gnome
vi - sounds like eye
I only discovered recently that python/perl/etc scripts start with a sharp bang 
It's always weird when that once in a blue moon happens and I end up talking to someone that actually knows what Linux/Unix is - we never pronounce half of this stuff the same way.
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den_RDC
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| Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:08 am Post subject: Re: Internut Exploder |
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Linux = lih-nucks, like Linus pronounces it. (linuks)
/etc = ee-tee-see (in
/usr = user (yeah i know its Unix System Resources)
/src = source
/lib = "lib"
/bin = "bin"
/sbin = ess bin
! = "uitroepteken" (which is dutch for exclamation mark)
# = "hekje" (which is dutch for "small fence" .. everybody calls it that way)
* = "sterretje" (which is dutch for "small star")
$ = dollar
^ = "dakje" (dutch for "little roof")
~ = tilde
& = ampersand
SQL = "ess que ell"
MySQL = "my ess que ell"
PostgreSQL = I don't use it 
GNU = "gknu" (can't really get thsi)
Gnome = I don't use it
KDE = "Ka Dee Ee"
SSH = "ess ess hash"
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DaveArb
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| tbg wrote: | | one oddity: I am a very old C programmer and for some reason, I learned to pronounce char as "car" (perhaps the person who taught me C knew Lisp) and not "char", which still sounds strange to me. |
I'm a very young C Programmer, only 44 years old, and I pronounce "char" like "car" because it's the One Right Way...
And, I'm teaching my college Freshman daughter to do the same! :evil_laugh:
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skyfolly
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pronounce things in Cantonese of course, even English. 
I wasn't able to speak clearly before my mom cut the thing under my tongue( I can't stick out my tongue out long now). Damnit, I think I've to go to have it cut again. My English sucks because of this.
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z3ro
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| skyfolly wrote: | pronounce things in Cantonese of course, even English.
I wasn't able to speak clearly before my mom cut the thing under my tongue( I can't stick out my tongue out long now). Damnit, I think I've to go to have it cut again. My English sucks because of this. |
That sounds very nasty, to put it nicely... Is that normal in Hong Kong/China? |
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tbg
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| DaveArb wrote: | | tbg wrote: | | one oddity: I am a very old C programmer and for some reason, I learned to pronounce char as "car" (perhaps the person who taught me C knew Lisp) and not "char", which still sounds strange to me. |
I'm a very young C Programmer, only 44 years old, and I pronounce "char" like "car" because it's the One Right Way...
And, I'm teaching my college Freshman daughter to do the same! :evil_laugh:
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but do you think that most kids say "char" like "charcoal"? it doesn't actually come up in conversation anymore, come to think of it. |
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Boris27
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| tbg wrote: | | DaveArb wrote: | | tbg wrote: | | one oddity: I am a very old C programmer and for some reason, I learned to pronounce char as "car" (perhaps the person who taught me C knew Lisp) and not "char", which still sounds strange to me. |
I'm a very young C Programmer, only 44 years old, and I pronounce "char" like "car" because it's the One Right Way...
And, I'm teaching my college Freshman daughter to do the same! :evil_laugh:
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but do you think that most kids say "char" like "charcoal"? it doesn't actually come up in conversation anymore, come to think of it. |
My 55 y/o C teacher pronounces it gar. With a deep g you americans dont have. dutch people will know what im on about.
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den_RDC
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| Boris27 wrote: |
My 55 y/o C teacher pronounces it gar. With a deep g you americans dont have. dutch people will know what im on about. |
char with the "ch" like in "schouw"? I caught myself pronouncing it like that more then a few times
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DaveArb
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| tbg wrote: | | but do you think that most kids say "char" like "charcoal"? it doesn't actually come up in conversation anymore, come to think of it. |
I'll ask my daughter if it's come up in her CompSci class yet. It's a C++ class, so they don't use chars so much...
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Sodom
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Hey thats a funny thread... well, now some examples from germany:
linux --> as Linus says
GNU --> as RMS says
/etc --> e-t-c
gentoo --> jen-tuu
portage --> por-tetsh 
/usr --> user
/src --> source
C/C++ --> Sii
MySQL --> My-eS-Qu-eL
php --> pe-ha-pe
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tbg
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ok, for the record, I am 52.
so do people in Germany and Holland usually say "Kar" for "char"?
I just realized, I guess, that the phoneme "cha" does not exist in German except in a borrowed word like "Chance" or combined with a preceding "s"... |
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Sodom
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@tbg: I don´t say "kar" for "char", and I don´t know any person who does in my german hometown. Well, thats obviously not a statement about whole germany
Indeed, there isn´t a "cha" in german, but we´ve got a "sch", which you´ld spell like "sh" in, for example "shell".
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tbg
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| Sodom wrote: | @tbg: I don´t say "kar" for "char", and I don´t know any person who does in my german hometown. Well, thats obviously not a statement about whole germany
Indeed, there isn´t a "cha" in german, but we´ve got a "sch", which you´ld spell like "sh" in, for example "shell". |
so how do you pronounce "char"? like "schar"? |
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Wi1d
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| fernandotcl wrote: | | Here goes a question. What about BIOS? B-I-O-S or as written? |
I've always heard it pronounced as: Bi Os |
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codergeek42
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Linux: Lee-nuhks
GNU: Gah-new
GNOME: Gah-nome
(etc.)
/etc: et see
/bin: bin
/usr: user (Yea, I know. That's not what it means )
/sys: sis
/sbin: ess bin
GTK+: Jee Tee Kay
KDE: Kay Dee Eee
eth0: eeth zero
eth1: eeth one
(etc.)
Cygwin: Cee Why Gee Win
Bash: Bash (? *shrug*)
Gaim: Game
ROX-Filer: Rocks Fihler
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Sodom
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| tbg wrote: | | Sodom wrote: | @tbg: I don´t say "kar" for "char", and I don´t know any person who does in my german hometown. Well, thats obviously not a statement about whole germany
Indeed, there isn´t a "cha" in german, but we´ve got a "sch", which you´ld spell like "sh" in, for example "shell". |
so how do you pronounce "char"? like "schar"? |
Yes.
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