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I've caught myself doing this with more obscure (to me) words—ones that I only encountered in text and not in spoken conversation. Debian was one ("DEE-bee-an")
by function_seven 9y ago
I've caught myself doing this with more obscure (to me) words—ones that I only encountered in text and not in spoken conversation. Debian was one ("DEE-bee-an"). I was talking to a friend one day about it when I first started using Linux ("LIE-niks"!), and he was amused by my innocence :)
> And he did this with at least one other word ("requiem")!
Did he pronounce it "rek-WHY-em"? That would drive me insane.
- bitwize 9y agoI used to pronounce Debian and Linux exactly those ways, He pronounced it re-KWEE-em.
- Stratoscope 9y agoOne odd thing I've noticed about myself: when I read the word Linux silently, what I hear in my head is often "LIE-niks", but when I say it out loud it's always "LINN-iks". And it's not like I'm on the verge of mispronouncing it and have to correct myself; it naturally comes out the right way. Just not when I read it silently.
- stordoff 9y agoOne thing I've noticed is that if there is a word I only encounter in its written form, I only sight read it and don't pronounce it internally (I remember doing it with "Hermione" the first I read the Harry Potter series). It's almost like there's just a brief silence in my inner monologue. I can see how that might lead to odd pronunciations the first time I actually think about it.