If you're having difficulty figuring out how to pronounce "data," say database.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People who say data are wrong, period. It’s data and always will be.

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  • SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I agree. I’ve always said this.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But is it pronounced “database” or “database”?

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    • misterdoctor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Database, obviously?

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• slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Great. Now I’m unsure of how to pronounce database as well.

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  • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Easy fix, just say datum five times fast

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    / ˈdeɪ tə/, /ˈdæt ə /

    / ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /

    Source: dictionary.com

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Uhhhhhh…that guy should see a doctor. His blood count is very low.

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    • aaaa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How many bloods should a healthy man have?

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    • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To much silver

      www.rosemaryjacobs.com/argyria_photos_intro.html

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• BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I definitely say both depending on the sentence and how it feels coming off the tongue. I also alternate between the and thee. No idea why, but it happens organically.

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  • Reyali@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Route as well. Depends largely on if I’m talking about routing Internet traffic or Route 66, though.

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• FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You say data, and I say data. Let’s call the whole thing off.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tomato.

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    • executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Potato

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Duh-Tuh Bah-say

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  • paranoia@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dutty bussy

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  • Twitches@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    🤣

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• ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s like when people pronounce mana like mana, it’s very annoying.

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  • stickyShift@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pronounce like what? Mana-goose? Or Mana-in-the-middle?

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    • topherclay@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      🎵life is unfaiiir. 🎶

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  • Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And potato and tomato and strawberry and aliuminium.

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  • LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hana mean what mana mean and gana mean that too.

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Listen, data is singular, and data is plural.

  Data goes into a database. It’s comprised of individual components of data.

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  • pipe01@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t data the plural of datum?

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    • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not in English.

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  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I feel like this is wrong. Source?

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    • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Data and media: two tricky Latin plurals and how to handle them

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• algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had a comp sci teacher pronounce “data” and “database” differently. Drove me up a wall. I don’t even care which way you say it, just make it the same ffs

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  • LaoisheFu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No he was right; it’s data and database. 100%

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• MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Easy, Dah-tah-base

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I assume OP intended to force daytuh base, but I hear dada base fairly often. I don’t know if it’s more regional or more field related

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I say it either way depending on how I feel at that moment, because people around me use different pronunciations so they all sound fine.

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  • voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Instructions unclear, day-tay-boss

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  • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s no y in data or database. The only source of confusion is that Star Trek character weirdly dipthong-ing his name.

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• Alloi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  if your unsure how to swim, just do it.

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• JTskulk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bongers will say “dodderbase” unironically though.

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• FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The thing is I have multiple ways of saying database as well 😂

  Same problem

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• ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think you mean datumbase

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• Logh@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You say data and I say data…

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  • Grimtuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Datum Data Date

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• terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Daughtabase, got it.

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  • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t caall meee daughta

    -the database probably

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  • Trex202@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The only difference between daughta and daughter is the last letters

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    • DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not Tesla it’s Teslerrr

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