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Off-topic, but, why does he pronounce JavaScript "YavaScript"?
by sedatk 2y ago
Off-topic, but, why does he pronounce JavaScript "YavaScript"?
- pvg 2y agoWhy do we say 'wat' instead of hwæt? Same thing.
- Kiro 2y agoHow else would you pronounce it?
- pvg 2y agoJ as in Jacques, 'script' like 'esprit'. Zhavascree, stress on final syllable.
- noman-land 2y agoThe joke is that he's speaking from the future where they inexplicably pronounce javascript "yavascript". This is how you know he's really from the future.
- sedatk 2y agoUh, okay, I must have missed that part :)
- noman-land 2y agoHe definitely never mentions it but the opening line of the presentation is "This talk is a 40 year history beginning in 1995 and going until 2035" and he speaks in the past tense so he sorta just launches into it without setting it up much.
- brabel 2y agoIs the speaker from the Nordics? Everyone in the Nordics say "J" as "Y" because that's how it's pronounced in their languages and they think English speakers (and speakers of every other language that uses the Latin alphabet) are just mispronouncing it.
- fulafel 2y agoLatin alphabet using languages that do it similarly as nordics: german, dutch, czech, polish, hungarian, latvian, etc. Also the international phonetic alphabet.
- brabel 2y agoAre you arguing that the sound of "J" in English (and the very different sounds of it in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian etc.) is wrong? Sounds of words change over time and that's probably why the same letters are pronounced so differently in different languages, though they might have been used to represent the same sounds originally.
- fulafel 2y agoNot arguing that, these langugaes just use the alphabet differently. I was mainly reacting to the "speakers of every other language that uses the Latin alphabet" part to give some counterexamples.
- xigoi 2y agoJavaScript is named after Java the programming language, which is named after Java the island, which is correctly pronounced that way.
- aitchnyu 2y agoIIRC Silicon Valley was (will be) nuked, hence the implication Dutch (top of head example) becomes dominant.