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Ask HN: How do you say it?
I'm sure I'm not the only one whose introduction to computers consisted of sitting home alone and hacking away and only ever communicating about technical terminology via non-spoken media like IRC. What I wonder is if anyone else consequently developed their own quirky pronunciations for technical terms that differ wildly from convention.
As an example, I may pronounce "sudo" as "sue dough" or say "regex" with a soft "g", but what really makes my colleagues laugh at me is when I pronounce "bin" and "lib" with long i's (as in "binary" and "library").
- cperciva 17y agoI usually say "su-doe", not "su-doo"; "reg-ex", not "re-jex"; bin, not "bine"; and "lib", not "libe". I also say "lin-ux", not "lie-nux"; and "s-crypt", not "script".
- khafra 17y agoLikewise on all but Linux, which I have pronounced "lee-nux" after a friend showed me http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/ http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/
- marssaxman 17y agoI doubt there is any such thing as "convention". Some words are pronounced phonetically and some as fragments of the words they were abbreviated or concatenated from; who's to say which is correct? People don't even apply their own pronunciation patterns consistently.