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To me those two sound quite different. Here is, how we pronounce it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVKb8cm1B20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVKb8cm1B20

drewm1980 5y ago
English spelling is a mess... spelling it as "Toyt" would avoid the ambiguity. Or if the "IT" is from "Internet of things"... you could go with "Adroit"... That's a real word and thus has a memorized pronunciation in English, even though ~that's in turn a "mispronounced" French word. Sorry for bikeshedding! I love new programming languages, but even ~I'm going to be distracted if it's named after a female body part. For fun: George Carlin: https://youtu.be/6ulTgP6fjfA?t=598 https://youtu.be/6ulTgP6fjfA?t=598
- tokai 5y ago
  Its tɔɪt versus twŏt. Definetly not the same. Your bikeshedding is way over the line. It is just as much the french word for roof or a slangy spelling of tight. Don't make it their problem that you have an (weird) association.
  - handrous 5y ago
    I spent about a minute wondering why someone made yet another software project that I can't talk about with non-nerds (or in mixed company at all, or with people I don't know very, very well and do not work with, et c.), before figuring out other ways to say it (my first alternative guess was as in "a round tuit" = "to it", though note the spelling there...) Blame French classes, I guess. And I'm American! I bet if I passed this around on my non-nerd chat friend groups at least half would guess the vulgar-sounding version first.
- ZoomZoomZoom 5y ago
  Why do you assume English? The word is not in the English vocabulary, so the default pronunciation should be Latin, as it's written using Latin alphabet.
akie 5y ago
Also my first thought though, reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboWtJiNYro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboWtJiNYro ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

3 ms·

To me those two sound quite different. Here is, how we pronounce it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVKb8cm1B20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVKb8cm1B20

by floitsch 5y ago

drewm1980 5y ago
English spelling is a mess... spelling it as "Toyt" would avoid the ambiguity. Or if the "IT" is from "Internet of things"... you could go with "Adroit"... That's a real word and thus has a memorized pronunciation in English, even though ~that's in turn a "mispronounced" French word. Sorry for bikeshedding! I love new programming languages, but even ~I'm going to be distracted if it's named after a female body part. For fun: George Carlin: https://youtu.be/6ulTgP6fjfA?t=598 https://youtu.be/6ulTgP6fjfA?t=598
- tokai 5y ago
  Its tɔɪt versus twŏt. Definetly not the same. Your bikeshedding is way over the line. It is just as much the french word for roof or a slangy spelling of tight. Don't make it their problem that you have an (weird) association.
  - handrous 5y ago
    I spent about a minute wondering why someone made yet another software project that I can't talk about with non-nerds (or in mixed company at all, or with people I don't know very, very well and do not work with, et c.), before figuring out other ways to say it (my first alternative guess was as in "a round tuit" = "to it", though note the spelling there...) Blame French classes, I guess. And I'm American! I bet if I passed this around on my non-nerd chat friend groups at least half would guess the vulgar-sounding version first.
- ZoomZoomZoom 5y ago
  Why do you assume English? The word is not in the English vocabulary, so the default pronunciation should be Latin, as it's written using Latin alphabet.
akie 5y ago
Also my first thought though, reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboWtJiNYro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboWtJiNYro ¯\_(ツ)_/¯