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I've made this mistake with LaTeX. I was so embarrassed when someone told me "Its pronounced lah-tekh".
by victorr 10y ago
I've made this mistake with LaTeX. I was so embarrassed when someone told me "Its pronounced lah-tekh".
- AstroJetson 10y agoAnother one is Tuple (like in a data base) Too pool -or- Tup ulll -or- Tup lee So many choice from just five letters....
- Crespyl 10y agoI'd always heard "Two Pull"s as the one true way, not to be confused with "Triple"s. "Tup Lee" just seems silly.
- AstroJetson 10y agoNot to pick on the place that invented "Sweet Tea" and BBQ, but in the south, ya'll just need to drag out those vowels....
- lucideer 10y agoTuple is a mathematical term predating computers, and the "-tuple" suffix is older again, so pronunciation shouldn't be as ambiguous as the other, newly invented terms. (It's historically rhymed with couple) On the other hand, a lot of Latin-originating words have had their pronunciations changed in US English, the canonical example being data (from UK English "da-ta" to US English "day-ta", which has now begun to become standard everywhere due to the tech industry) so I guess other words could go the same way.
- kqr 10y ago> (It's historically rhymed with couple) So it's true! It is pronounced with a short initial syllable. I've always pronounced it along the lines of toople.
- tomlong 10y agoSurely day-ta and da-ta are the wrong way round there?
- lucideer 10y agoUnless I've worded it confusingly, I don't think so...
- nandhp 10y agoOr my favorite, combining your first two choices: too-pull.
- maggit 10y agoYou shouldn't feel embarrassed about how you pronounce LaTeX. In the words of its creator Leslie Lamport: > One of the hardest things about LaTeX is deciding how to pronounce it.This is also one of the few things I'm not going to tell you about LaTeX, since pronunciation is best determined by usage, not fiat. TeX is usually pronounced teck, making lah-teck, and lay-teck the logical choices; but language is not always logical, so lay-tecks is also possible. See also http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17502/what-is-the-correct-pronunciation-of-tex-and-latex http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17502/what-is-the-cor...
- Bromskloss 10y agoThe Knuth quotation from your link: > 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. Surely, we should be insiders.
- a3n 10y agoThere are two kinds of people ...
- artmageddon 10y agoReally? I thought it was "lay-tack".