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I was a su-dough person until I realise that sudo stands for 'super user do' or 'su do', so I switched to soodoo - it makes a lot more sense that way. f-suck i
by Daneel_ 6y ago
I was a su-dough person until I realise that sudo stands for 'super user do' or 'su do', so I switched to soodoo - it makes a lot more sense that way.
f-suck is a new one for me though. I would say F S C K to someone else, but I call it fusk in my head.
- jhot 6y agoI've always said F S check in my head but never said or heard it on conversation. I started my computer journey with msdos so I think chkdsk is to blame for me saying 'check'.
- memetomancer 6y agoI'm for su-dough - to my ear it evokes the martial art Judo which makes some kind of sense considering what it does. On the other hand Soo Doo sounds like a pig farmer's wife calling the swine in for their slop. To my ear ;)
- pony_sheared 6y agoI'm a su-dougher, because "pseudo" reminds me I can be someone else.
- stouset 6y agoI’ve always called it “fusck”.
- jcfields 6y agoThat’s how I hear it in my head, probably from years of reading it as a stand-in for profanity on Slashdot and the like.
- satysin 6y agoYup put me down for "fusck" as well. I am probably inventing memories here but I think it is because whenever I saw a system announce it needed to fsck I would say "oh fuck" in my head (sometimes out loud).
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoI have always “heard” F sick in my head for fsck
- 3131s 6y agoYeah, me also.
- JoshTriplett 6y agoI tend to pronounce fsck as one syllable, like "fisk" without the 'i'.
- lloeki 6y agoNitpick: su is “substitute user” (sometimes switch user), it merely defaults to root. man su: su - run a command with substitute user and group ID As for fsck I moved from F S C K to progressively bind the S and C in a slide of the tongue, which ends up sounding like F-ceek once I’ve eased in the audience with F-(s)ceek(ay) (parentheses get progressively toned down as I speak faster) That or just “FS check”.
- Daneel_ 6y agoYou're correct, of course. I don't know why I remember it as super user.
- notretarded 6y agoBecause that's its most common use - to impersonate as a privileged user - so su quite naturally becomes super user
- jchw 6y agoBecause sudo really was “superuser do” and is unrelated to the UNIX utility “su” (at least by lineage.)
- devenblake 6y agoIn my head I pronounce fsck "fuck" because that's normally what I say when I realize I have to use it. Around people? fs check or filesystem check.
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