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Old 04-24-2010, 01:28 PM   #16
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[QUOTE=cantab;3946494]
usr - "you ess are"
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I prefer 'user'.
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var - as the first part of variable
Again i prefer as 'variable'
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etc - et-cetera
ditto
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srv - "ess are vee"
WTF is srv?
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fsck - "eff suck"
f-s-check
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Gnome - silent G
Same.
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GNU - "guh-nuw"
more like gee-new
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GIF - hard G
G-I-F
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SQL - "ess-que-ell"
Yep.
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(Windows) Vista - "pisstake"
ROTFLMAO
 
Old 04-24-2010, 01:39 PM   #17
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lib - short i
lihb
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usr - "you ess are"
user
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var - as the first part of variable
vahr
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etc - et-cetera
etts
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fsck - "eff suck"
eff ess see kay
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Gnome - silent G
guh-nome
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GNU - "guh-nuw"
guh-noo
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GIF - hard G
giff
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SQL - "ess-que-ell"
ess kyoo ell
 
Old 04-24-2010, 02:53 PM   #18
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I pronounce all of them exactly the way they are spelled.....
 
Old 04-24-2010, 04:02 PM   #19
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I pronounce it the Hispanic way (as in 'Sud%F3' [Look up this ASCII character on Google]).
 
Old 04-24-2010, 04:06 PM   #20
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I pronounce it the Hispanic way (as in 'Sud%F3' [Look up this ASCII character on Google]).
Why?
 
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Why?
Have been learning Spanish for 2 years, so it just seems natural to me.
 
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Can't you post that character here?

Anything above 0x79 in not technically ASCII.
 
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Its ó
 
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Can't you post that character here?

Anything above 0x79 in not technically ASCII.
It is as Smeeze said: an accented 'o'.
 
Old 04-24-2010, 04:13 PM   #25
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Copy and paste?
 
Old 04-24-2010, 04:23 PM   #26
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WTF is srv?
From the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard:
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3.16. /srv : Data for services provided by this system
3.16.1. Purpose
/srv contains site-specific data which is served by this system.
Rationale
This main purpose of specifying this is so that users may find the location of the data files for particular
service, and so that services which require a single tree for readonly data, writable data and scripts (such as
cgi scripts) can be reasonably placed. Data that is only of interest to a specific user should go in that users’
home directory.
The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified as there is currently no consensus on
how this should be done. One method for structuring data under /srv is by protocol, eg. ftp, rsync, www,
and cvs. On large systems it can be useful to structure /srv by administrative context, such as
/srv/physics/www, /srv/compsci/cvs, etc. This setup will differ from host to host. Therefore, no program
should rely on a specific subdirectory structure of /srv existing or data necessarily being stored in /srv.
However /srv should always exist on FHS compliant systems and should be used as the default location for
such data.
Distributions must take care not to remove locally placed files in these directories without administrator
permission.
I put samba shares under /srv/samba.
 
Old 04-27-2010, 04:25 PM   #27
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etc = "et see"
usr = "you ess are" (though I used to say "user")
var = starts with v, rhymes with jar
sudo = "sue doo"
linux = "lin uhcks"
 
Old 04-27-2010, 04:46 PM   #28
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linux = "lin uhcks"
That reminds me...for some weird reason, my dad says "Linux" with a long "i", as in "line-ux". O_o

Festival (at least on my Arch machine) says it that way, too.

As for the rest:
  • etc - "et setera"
  • usr - "user"
  • var - a bit undecided, but I lean towards "vahr" (rhyming with "car")
  • GNOME - "nome" i.e. no hard "g"
  • GNU - "gənu" i.e. exactly as spelled
  • sudo - I lean towards "sue-dough", but still undecided

In total, a lot of Linux/UNIX terminology is weird, so I try not to "pronounce" them at all, save for the sub-vocalizations that you do anyway when you read them.

Last edited by MrCode; 04-27-2010 at 04:48 PM.
 
Old 04-27-2010, 05:08 PM   #29
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Phonetic 'hieroglyphs" are never meant to be literally spoken.
Ideas represented as characters. Acronyms are a phonetic device used to associate an idea to a single representation of that idea.
Considering that colloquialism reflects the spoken languages more than the grammatically correct form, a person will receive multiple translations of a word.
 
Old 04-27-2010, 05:53 PM   #30
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sudo as in "pseudonym".

@MrCode, I pronounce Linux the same way as your dad. LINE-UX.
My argument for doing so is that the English pronunciation of Linus is LINE-US (Like the kid out of Peanuts) so therefore it makes perfect sense that the English pronunciation of Linux should follow the same rules. Linus being Finnish will obviously pronounce it in a Finnish way.

Consider it a localisation. You say tomaaaaato, I say tomarrrrto.
 
  


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