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That’s one controversy that shouldn’t be. Quoth Knuth (The TeXbook, chapter 1, “The name of the game”): > Insiders pronounce the χ of TeX as a Greek chi, not a
by mananaysiempre 2y ago
That’s one controversy that shouldn’t be. Quoth Knuth (The TeXbook, chapter 1, “The name of the game”):
> Insiders pronounce the χ of TeX as a Greek chi, not as an ‘x’, so that TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh. It’s the ‘ch’ sound in Scottish words like loch or German words like ach; it’s a Spanish ‘j’ and a Russian ‘kh’. When you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist.
- quercusa 2y ago> TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh That's the Mad Magazine Knuth speaking: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-enduring-art-of-computer-programming/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-enduring-art-of-computer-p...
- RheingoldRiver 2y agothe controversy isnt `ck` vs `x`, it's LAH-tek vs LAY-tek vs lah-TEK vs lay-TEK