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Yet 'bit' was never renamed. This is a sad day for the revenge of french on english. Is Lean going to be renamed too next ? immature people might mistake me f
by gryn 6y ago
Yet 'bit' was never renamed.
This is a sad day for the revenge of french on english.
Is Lean going to be renamed too next ? immature people might mistake me for a proud drug user.
- rscho 6y agoExactly. This prosternation before american PC is depressing, to say the least.
- mumblemumble 6y agoI'm not sure I've ever heard someone pronounce 'bit' like 'bite' in French. But, in English, everyone pronounces 'coq' like 'cock'.
- jefft255 6y agoBit is pronounced like bite (i.e. cock) in french, Byte is pronounced as in english (although Octet is used too). At least that's how I say it.
- greenshackle2 6y agoIt's pretty close but it's not quite the same vowel. Bite (fr) is pronounced [bit], bit (en) is pronounced [bɪt]. But the vowel is also different in cock [kɒk] vs coq [kɔk]. EDIT: I think I missed the point, if I'm reading "32 bits" in a french text then yes of course it sounds exactly like "32 bites".
- tom_mellior 6y ago> if I'm reading "32 bits" in a french text then yes of course it sounds exactly like "32 bites". My impression in France was that "bite" had the "i" sound slightly longer than in "bit". Some of the pronounciations at https://forvo.com/word/bite/#fr https://forvo.com/word/bite/#fr definitely lengthen it, but not all. Unfortunately there is only one recording for https://forvo.com/word/bit/#fr https://forvo.com/word/bit/#fr for comparison.
- jefft255 6y agoAny difference there is will depend on the individual, and all in all they're pronounced very similarly if not exactly the same.
- boobsbr 6y agoSeeing 8 GO mobile data plans was really weird the first time. Then I remembered my telecom classes and we use octets because there's no confusion regarding byte sizes in older differet architectures.
- zdkl 6y agoHow on earth do you pronounce it then?
- inetsee 6y agoNot everyone. I've always pronounced it "coke".
- rscho 6y agoI do. As do all people I know of who speak french as their native language.
- mumblemumble 6y agoHmm. Definitely non-native here. I wonder if I've misattributed some regional variation.
- rscho 6y agoTBH, I can't really think of any other pronunciation.
- mumblemumble 6y agoIn my head, bit's i is more like the one in poutine, bite's i is more like the one in vite.
- jefft255 6y agoPlot is another pretty bad one, for the Québécois here...