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It's funny because I wouldn't have thought twice about how to pronounce it if it just never mentioned the rhyming thing, but now I can't stop saying plover, hov
by madeofpalk 5y ago
It's funny because I wouldn't have thought twice about how to pronounce it if it just never mentioned the rhyming thing, but now I can't stop saying plover, hover, lover. Plover, hover, lover.
I've never seen a title like "Redis (rhymes with "Candice") is an in-memory..."
- wongarsu 5y agoBut you have probably noticed that close to nobody pronounces debian correctly (deb-ian, like the names), or gif (whichever is right), or PNG (ping), or the people pronouncing dogecoin as dog-e-coin, etc. Confusion about how to pronounce something is extremely common, due to most open source communication happening in written form, and English being a weird language where pronunciation and spelling seem mostly unrelated to each other.
- 7952 5y agoMaybe we need to have a latin/binomial nomenclature like in species naming. So pluvialis apricaria instead of golden plover. mensa elephantus for PostgreSQL. mensa parvus for SQLite. The purpose is to have an agreed name in all languages, and not worry much about pronounciation. Now what about Oracle...
- chaosite 5y agomensa pythia?
- arthurcolle 5y agomensa diabolica?