Comment on LaTeX Master Race

Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• klemptor@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lah-tek

  Anything else is badness 10000

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  • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve heard leh-tek more than lah-tek.

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Camp lah-tek

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• Hupf@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Too bad English doesn’t really have a en.wikipedia.org/…/Voiceless_palatal_fricative?wp…

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  • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For reference, the German pronunciation, same sound as in hew or human. Knuth says “TeX” is Tau, Epsilon, Chi, and says the Chi is supposed to be the voiceless velar fricative, as in Loch Ness. According to modern Greek phonetics, it can be either, ask an actual Greek how hard the fricative is supposed to be.

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Looks like we’ve got another argument on our hands! That’s not how we pronounced it at our uni and I don’t care what

      Knuth says

      /s

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lay Tex Mex 🌮

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• oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lay tex.

  Why bother to fit your acronym to latex otherwise. ConTexT is another one. Would be silly otherwise.

  The creator might promote saying tech, but that shouldn’t matter since they Internet ignores the creator of the gif format and swears on ghif instead of the desired jiff…

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