Pronunciations
Brandon Fosdick
>
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Chris Hill wrote:
>
> >
> > What about ~? In grade school I learned that it was pronounced "TIL-duh"
> > but I have a friend who calls it "TIL-day."
> >
>
> twiddle
A twiddle is the little spinning ascii icon {/-\|/-...}, like the one that the
boot loader uses. At least I think its the boot loader, haven't had to reboot in
a while. :)
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Robert Shea
%On 30-Nov-00 Roop Nanuwa wrote:
~snip~
%
%I used to say the letters: f-s-c-k, but now I usually say "fisk".
%(rhymes with
%disk)
%
I learned from mostly very bitter sys admins, that always called fsck "f
suck" and in fact, outside of this thread, I have never heard it called
anything else. Considering how long it can take on larger drives... I'd have
to agree that at times it is very appropriate.
~snip~
Robert
Chris Hill
> Brian Beattie wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Chris Hill wrote:
> >
> > > What about ~? In grade school I learned that it was pronounced "TIL-duh"
> > > but I have a friend who calls it "TIL-day."
> >
> > twiddle
>
> A twiddle is the little spinning ascii icon {/-\|/-...}, like the one
> that the boot loader uses. At least I think its the boot loader,
> haven't had to reboot in a while. :)
I have. About three weeks ago (actually 23 days, 20:23) I was reading
something online (perhaps this very list), crossed my legs, and
accidentally hit the power switch with my toe. Retard. Yes, I've moved
the CPU to a new spot.
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Alfred Perlstein
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Chris Hill wrote:
>
> >
> > What about ~? In grade school I learned that it was pronounced "TIL-duh"
> > but I have a friend who calls it "TIL-day."
> >
>
> twiddle
"ok, now hit tilde" (til-deh)
"what?"
"the curly line thing"
"the what?"
"y'know the accent thing above the back-tick..?"
"back.. tick?"
"argh!" *WHAM* *WHAM* *WHAM* (slamming phone on desk)
"hello? hello? what was that?"
"*nothing*, y'know the spanish accent thingy on the upper left hand side
of the keyboard?"
"uh...?"
*WHAM* *WHAM* *WHAM* (this time it's my head hitting the desk)
"oh! i found it! nice homepage..."
"yeah, great... bye!" *CLICK*
Moral of the story:
Depending on technical ability you may have adapt your pronunciation.
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Chameleon
>On 30-Nov-00 Chris Hill wrote:
> > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> >
> >> /etc "etcetera" (some reprobates say E T C)
> >
> > Some even worse reprobates (myself included) say ET-see.
>
>I prefer ET-see as well.
>
> >> Or "#"
> >>
> >> The English say "hash", some australians say "crunch"
> >> Americans says (bizarrely) "pound" .. yes yes I know why :)
> >
> > And there are always the pedants who say "octothorpe."
> >
> > What about ~? In grade school I learned that it was pronounced "TIL-duh"
> > but I have a friend who calls it "TIL-day."
>
>I say TIL-day, but I'm just a youngin'
:)
i'm just a youngin too,
but i've always said TIL-dee
Swen
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Jeremiah Gowdy
e-t-c ? Most people I know here in the San Diego area say "etz" (sounds
like Mets). e-t-c is far too much to say :)
jo...@goodleaf.net
I've checked three dictionaries and all report the pronunciation as
til duh (where the duh is a schwa).
I like /etc rhymes with "mets." But then I also, on purely aesthetic
grounds, prefer "leye' nucks" to "lin' ucks" which sounds to me like a
poorly implemented scripting language at best--not manly at all.
;-)
-John
Chameleon writes:
> At 03:32 PM 11/30/00, John Baldwin wrote:
>
> >On 30-Nov-00 Chris Hill wrote:
> > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> > >
> > >> /etc "etcetera" (some reprobates say E T C)
> > >
> > > Some even worse reprobates (myself included) say ET-see.
> >
> >I prefer ET-see as well.
> >
> > >> Or "#"
> > >>
> > >> The English say "hash", some australians say "crunch"
> > >> Americans says (bizarrely) "pound" .. yes yes I know why :)
> > >
> > > And there are always the pedants who say "octothorpe."
> > >
> > > What about ~? In grade school I learned that it was pronounced "TIL-duh"
> > > but I have a friend who calls it "TIL-day."
> >
> >I say TIL-day, but I'm just a youngin'
>
> :)
> i'm just a youngin too,
> but i've always said TIL-dee
>
> Swen
>
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Brian Beattie
> Brian Beattie wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Chris Hill wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > What about ~? In grade school I learned that it was pronounced "TIL-duh"
> > > but I have a friend who calls it "TIL-day."
> > >
> >
> > twiddle
>
> A twiddle is the little spinning ascii icon {/-\|/-...}, like the one that the
> boot loader uses. At least I think its the boot loader, haven't had to reboot in
> a while. :)
>
No you are wrong
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On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Brian Beattie wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> > Brian Beattie wrote:
> > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Chris Hill wrote:
> > > >
> > > > What about ~? In grade school I learned that it was pronounced "TIL-duh"
> > > > but I have a friend who calls it "TIL-day."
> > >
> > > twiddle
> >
> > A twiddle is the little spinning ascii icon {/-\|/-...}, like the one that the
> > boot loader uses. At least I think its the boot loader, haven't had to reboot in
> > a while. :)
> >
> No you are wrong
The spinning thingy is called a "propeller".
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> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Brian Beattie wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> > > Brian Beattie wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Chris Hill wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > What about ~? In grade school I learned that it was pronounced "TIL-duh"
> > > > > but I have a friend who calls it "TIL-day."
> > > >
> > > > twiddle
> > >
> > > A twiddle is the little spinning ascii icon {/-\|/-...}, like the one that the
> > > boot loader uses. At least I think its the boot loader, haven't had to reboot in
> > > a while. :)
> > >
> > No you are wrong
>
> The spinning thingy is called a "propeller".
No, it's a twirling baton.
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Mark Ovens
> Yes, us lazy Americans hate that 'ou' thing the Brits try to always
> interject, like 'colour' and 'valour.'
I think that originates from the French where such words end ~eur. Of
course it was Noah Webster who dropped the 'u'.
> Also, why can't the Brits us an
> occasional 'z' in their words; initialize, serialize, and other words like
> them just look cool w/ the 'z' in them, not that 's' substitution the Brits
> use.
>
Curiously, this is the one group of words that Americans spell correctly
and we get wrong. If you look in older editions of the OED you will find
such words spelled exclusively ~ize. Only in more recent editions (<10
years) will ~ise appear and then only as an *alternative* spelling. I have
great fun at work when writing docs where I always use ~ize and,
invariably, the reviewer pulls me up on it so I pull out a dictionary (and
slap him 'round the back of the head with it)....
> Here's another good one, though: /etc
>
FWIW, slash ee tee cee
> Some people pronounce it like its root word, etcetera, which is
> grammatically correct, since etcetera is abbreviated like "etc." Others say
> it like "et-sEE." What's the better one?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Peter Lai [mailto:Pet...@resnet.uconn.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 12:31
> > To: 'David Talkington '; 'freebsd-...@freebsd.org '
> > Subject: RE: Pronunciations
> >
> >
> > well, if you want to do a linguistical analysis on it:
> >
> > /lib is where you find "libs" (the i is short, ryhmes with
> > "fibs"). However
> > "libs" is derived from "lIbraries", which rhymes with "vIbe".
> > since "/lib" is a descendant of "libs" which is an altered
> > descendent of
> > "lIbraries" you should be able to pronounce "libs" with the short i.
> > i mean, you would prononounce "GTK-libs" as ryhming with "fibs" so why
> > wouldn't you do the same with "slash-lib".
> >
> > /bin is the place where you find "bInaries". but then you can
> > say it's the
> > "bin where you find programs". refer to eric s. raymond's
> > hackers jargon
> > dictionary. So linguistically it would make sense for you to pronounce
> > "/bIn" with the long vowel. But, americans are `lazy' and it
> > takes less
> > energy to say the short vowel.
> >
> > i mean, "missiles" can be pronounced "missels" or "missILes",
> > the former
> > being the american prounouciation and the latter, the british method.
> >
> > more questions: how the heck do you pronounce "/src"?
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > To: freebsd-...@freebsd.org
> > Sent: 11/30/2000 12:47 PM
> > Subject: Pronunciations
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> > Salutations.
> >
> > There is disagreement on these points among even knowledgeable people
> > in my office. I'll cast it to the list and let the chips fall where
> > they may. (There's no money on it.)
> >
> > /lib rhymes with "fib" or "vibe"?
> > /bin rhymes with "sin" or "whine"?
> > peeco or pyco?
> >
> > I don't have to argue about GNU or Linux, because there are FAQs to
> > back me up. On the above, however, I can find no controlling
> > authority. Please guide us on our path to righteousness.
> >
> > Cheers! -d
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What a lot of Americans seem to miss is that American English is a minority language compared to the vast wealth of nations and peoples who speak proper Standard English (what Americans like to call British English.)
Colour, valour, labour are the Standard spellings... similarly, Standard English drops its final -rs and such. When you learn to speak English anywhere but America or Canada, you learn with Standard English pronunciation. Crazily enough, Standard English has many more vowels than American English... I believe it's 26 or 28 to just 12.
Furthermore, the -ise / -ize difference comes from word origin: if the word origin is Latin you use -ise, if it is Greek you use -ize.
Food for thought ;-)
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Jim C. Nasby
> more questions: how the heck do you pronounce "/src"?
'source' :)
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