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In the interest of starting a proper flamewar, I propose that we also discuss the pronunciation of 'sudo' and 'sysctl'.
by raddan 5y ago
In the interest of starting a proper flamewar, I propose that we also discuss the pronunciation of 'sudo' and 'sysctl'.
- gmfawcett 5y ago> the pronunciation of 'sudo' SOO-dough (like pseudo) > and 'sysctl'. see-ISSSSS-cuttle (obviously!!)
- hkt 5y agosoo-doo Siss cee tee ell I will die on this hill
- hunter2_ 5y agoI'm guessing you're also a my-ess-queue-el person, then? Lack of vowels means discrete pronunciation of letters? How about the ctrl key or fn key?
- hkt 5y agoOddly, no strong feelings about those, but I am a my-ess-queue-el person. I can't claim to be consistent, but filling in vowel-less acronyms feels wrong. I think that's the difference - ctrl and fn are abbreviations, not acronyms. That might be the first time I've expressed it that way, actually. TIL, chiefly about my own thought processes.
- hunter2_ 5y agoI do believe SQL is not an acronym, but an initialism, precisely when it's spoken as you say it: initials rather than a word. It's when the string of letters is pronounced as a word that "acronym" is accurate. So SQL is either, and thus both... But yeah, the filling in is odd unless, as in the case of ctl/ctrl, knowledge of the original guides us into lossless compression.
- wrycoder 4y agosequel, but the margin was too narrow
- chasd00 5y agosudo = "s.u. do" sysctl = "sys control"
- mindcrime 5y agosudo: "sue dough" sysctl: "sys control"