how do you pronounce daemon? (as in ntp daemon)

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blendmaster · Post by **blendmaster** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:29 pm

for no real reason. i pronounce it as dæmon (with æ dipthong).

playfool · Post by **playfool** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:32 pm

Demon in english
Dæmon in danish.

wdreinhart · Post by **wdreinhart** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:37 pm

dæmon (with æ dipthong)

It's spelled with that "ae" for a reason...

homeobocks · Post by **homeobocks** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:05 pm

Deemawn. That's the first option, right?

I'm not going to bitch about H-MES this time because there really aren't any other ways to pronounce Daemon. If you pronounce it some other way, j00re a st00pid h34d!@!11

nrl · Post by **nrl** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:33 pm

demon (as in bsd mascot)

*ahem* The FreeBSD mascot is a daemon and I just pronounce it the same way as I would pronounce "demon", it is just an older variant of that word after all so when it's applied to a piece of software I don't see why it would be pronounced any differently than it is when applied to a daemon (as in a supernatural being).

Edit: although I probably pronounce daemon wrong

blendmaster · Post by **blendmaster** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:00 pm

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/search.a ... ine=daemon

i guess the computer definition is supposed to be pronounced daymon and the mythological is deemon.

Ateo · Post by **Ateo** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:34 pm

daemon -- day-mon.

Since it appears to be an english word, the "a" is a hard "a" because it's followed by an "e"...

lisa · Post by **lisa** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:39 pm

I pronounce it, basically "DAY-min" If that is the pronunciation with æ, so be it. :p

lisa · Post by **lisa** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:39 pm

Ateo wrote:Since it appears to be an english word, the "a" is a hard "a" because it's followed by an "e"...

Yeppers.

luminiscent · Post by **luminiscent** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:41 pm

day-mon

Slyde · Post by **Slyde** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:45 pm

Day light come and I wanna go home.

Imek · Post by **Imek** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 9:20 pm

I always thought of Daemon as simply another way to spell Demon, so I just pronounce it the same. I often used to run it through my head as 'dah-eh-mon' though..

headache · Post by **headache** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 9:34 pm

"Deemen"
The double e's are longggggggg.......

Duty · Post by **Duty** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 9:35 pm

"Caesar" is cee-sar, so I figured "Daemon" is dee-mon.

Cossins · Post by **Cossins** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:01 pm

Duty wrote:"Caesar" is cee-sar, so I figured "Daemon" is dee-mon.

Actually Caesar is originally pronounced kai-sar. The æ diphtong confused the English to think the c should be pronounced like an s (as opposed to k).

If you know Spanish, you will know that c before e sounds like s and c before a sounds like k. Since æ is made of ae (in that order), the pronunciation of the c should be decided from the a, not the e.

[ Now, I know that modern consensus in Latin is that c is always a k-sound, but I trust a living language more than st00pid academics.

Besides, it is known for sure that the people who actually spoke Latin didn't say c as k. ]

Here's a bonus curiosity: In Danish, Cæsar is pronounced sae-sar, but the word for emperor which is derived from Latin Cæsar is 'kejser', which is pronounced like kai-sar.

It's probably due to the same confusion as in English...

- Simon

homeobocks · Post by **homeobocks** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:54 pm

Cossins wrote:
Duty wrote:"Caesar" is cee-sar, so I figured "Daemon" is dee-mon.
Actually Caesar is originally pronounced kai-sar. The æ diphtong confused the English to think the c should be pronounced like an s (as opposed to k).

If you know Spanish, you will know that c before e sounds like s and c before a sounds like k. Since æ is made of ae (in that order), the pronunciation of the c should be decided from the a, not the e.

[ Now, I know that modern consensus in Latin is that c is always a k-sound, but I trust a living language more than st00pid academics. Besides, it is known for sure that the people who actually spoke Latin didn't say c as k. ]

Here's a bonus curiosity: In Danish, Cæsar is pronounced sae-sar, but the word for emperor which is derived from Latin Cæsar is 'kejser', which is pronounced like kai-sar.
It's probably due to the same confusion as in English...

- Simon

PS: Kaiser is ``emporer'' in German.

Edit (PPS): Encyclopaedia.

jd5419 · Post by **jd5419** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:08 pm

I pronouse it as either "DE MON" or "damon".... damon probably meaning daemon

whatever kind of mood i'm in. heh

blaksaga · Post by **blaksaga** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:11 am

blendmaster wrote:http://www.hyperdictionary.com/search.a ... ine=daemon

i guess the computer definition is supposed to be pronounced daymon and the mythological is deemon.

That's how I've always pronounced it.

Post by **pjp** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:35 am

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how do you pronounce daemon? (as in ntp daemon)

How do you Pronounce Daemon?

how do you pronounce daemon? (as in ntp daemon)