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If you have to explain the pronunciation of the name of your tool in the first sentence, you've already lost.
by asa400 8mo ago
If you have to explain the pronunciation of the name of your tool in the first sentence, you've already lost.
- zekrioca 8mo agoNo.
- myth2018 8mo agohttps://nginx.org/ https://nginx.org/
- flomo 8mo agoFunny, I had a job where everyone called it "N-Jinx", so I said that at another job and everyone looked at me like an idiot.
- thisislife2 8mo agoHuh? Guess you do learn something new everyday - I've been calling it that for ever too but apparently it is "engine-x" ... (thanks to you, I guess I won't sound like an idiot any more, to some ;).
- hiprob 8mo agosudo? gnu? mate? debian? ubuntu? suse?
- quasarj 8mo agoWait, how are you supposed to say mate?
- PygmySurfer 8mo agoMah-tay
- jagged-chisel 8mo agoOo Boon Too I was born and raised amongst the rednecks of the southern US and still, someone saying “uh-BUN-too” sounds so silly
- deleted 8mo ago[deleted]
- db48x 8mo agoLots of counterexamples to that one.
- Artoooooor 8mo agoEnglish, dammit...
- RupertSalt 8mo agoI was in a group who began pronouncing the dashes in command-line options as "tack" and they said it was military lingo, but I cannot now find any connection to dash, hyphen, "minus", or Morse code "dah".
- Shank 8mo agoOoh! I do this! I got it from Darren Kitchen from Hak5! I have no idea where or why he did it though.
- dumah 8mo agoTack is short for tackline, a length of line used to delimit messages encoded with flags in the days before shipboard radio communications. Military and civil emergency communications use alternative pronunciations where clarity and brevity are critical.