Comment on The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.

z00s@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  akshully

  It’s “substitute user do”, and defaults to root

  IIRC

  source

  • intrapt@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So it should be pronounced “suh doo”?

    I’ll have fun annoying people with this pronunciation, thanks!

    source

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The u is from user I assume, not substitute, so pronounced sue if you want to maintain the original pronunciation of the word it’s from.

      source
  • z00s@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you need to start with ackshully, then you don’t need to comment

    source

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      akshully, I didn’t need to start with ‘akshully’, I just chose to.

      source

      • z00s@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You chose to he a dickhead, interesting

        source

        • -> View More Comments
• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s really confusing because “pseudo” pronounce the same way, means not real. So it’s like you only kind of have admin access but really there’s a lot of systems you can’t change. Except that’s not the case, and you have full access.

  source

  • Heavybell@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah but you’re not really root, you just have permission to run things as root ;)

    That’s my flimsy justification for pronouncing it like pseudo, anyway.

    source
• josefo@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, yeah, that fucked me up too few months ago, there are several videos on the subject. I think it’s a problem with words that are created as written first, and then got pronounced, in second place, like most tech lingo. As a non-native speaker those are always the hardest to speak correctly, and even english has no real consensus.

  source

  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d like to introduce you to “GIF”

    source

    • BlueLagoon@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pronounced “yiff”

      source

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hiff, if you want to make up a Spanish pronunciation.

        source
      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Gyif

        Also doesn’t help that apparently it’s named after a brand of peanut butter (why) that is only available in the states and nowhere else on earth.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
  • TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like SQL. It took me a bit time to learn that the one from MS is Sequel and the other ones are Es Queue El.

    source
  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, and the ongoing debate of how to pronounce Godot - even the developers don’t seem to know

    source

    • josefo@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah, I’m a Godot developer and this is like pouring salt in my wounds. Waiting for Godot was written by an Irish man, but it’s the translation of his original work in French. On top of that mess, the original creators of the engine are from Argentina, a country that uses a variant of Spanish. So good luck with consensus there. French, Irish English or Argentinian Spanish are all canonical options there.

      source
• Sinthesis@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have no source to back this up so maybe I came up with this in my own reality, but I thought it was related to, pseudo = pretended.

  source