Spyke
lemmy.world

Do y'all ponounce it as one word? Heard someone once say "c-h-own" and I was confused.

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halvarreply
lemm.ee

c and h in my own language (hungarian) and own in english

sounds something like

pots-café-h-father-own (random words to illustrate the way the letters are pronounced)

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FQQDreply
lemmy.ohaa.xyz

that's surprisingly similarly to the german pronunciation of ch.

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As far as I know most of our letters are the same.

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dustyDatareply
lemmy.world

I deconstruct all commands when used in spoken word, so I pronounce it “change ownership”. I also call ls, “list“ and cd “change directory”. For some reason this completely confuses and disorients everyone in the room.

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lemmy.world

Do you then read 'dd' as 'disk destoyer' to send chills down people's spines?

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I'd say change owner, but I'm with you otherwise. Although I do sometimes say change folder, old habits die hard.

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I say it like "pwn". As in, if I'm sitting here chown-ing your shit, you're pretty much pwned.

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Yeah the instant I wrote it I knew I'd get some comments lol. I know it's "ch" + "own" but somewhere along the way my brain started pronouncing it rhyming with "clown" rather than "own" lol :p

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I do, but that’s mostly because an old boss of mine did it, thought it was hilarious, and now I do too, because of the in joke

Chown, rhymes with bone.

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Yes definitely as one word like ch as in change then own, same with chroot.

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db2reply
lemmy.world

I do, but regarding pronunciations it's S-A-T-A not Saytuh and I'll die on that hill.

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FQQDreply
lemmy.ohaa.xyz

yes, you will. although i tend to use the german pronunciation, "Sahtah".

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kbin.social

I must have heard "saata" somewhere because that's my head-pronunciation, and it doesn't match how I say data (dayta). Not sure I've ever said it out loud.

Could be an "avoiding saying anything like 'Satan'" kind of thing, not because of religion, but more to avoid lame jokes.

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lemmy.world

well "saata" is closer to the pronounciation of satan in finnish, "saatana". Was it Linus you've heard?

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Ha. No, I don't think it was Linus, but it might have been someone else European. Really hard to be sure at this point. SATA has been around for a while.

And I've unearthed a memory of the other, other pronunciation that I know I've heard: "serial ay-tee-ay". Why make it an acronym when you can say one of the words and then the initials of the others!

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fl42vreply
lemmy.ml

Idk how this thingy on the screenshot works 🤷

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adONisreply
lemmy.world

oh... it's a game where every day there's a 5 letter word you have to guess.

you start with a random word and it shows you if the letters are in its corect place (green), wrong place (yellow) or they don't occur at all (gray).

then you keep on guessing until you find the word or reach the limit.

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Hmm, seems like it'd be interesting to automate :D

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Bastards. You should create an issue or something

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lemmy.world

It was a difficult wordle - I wouldn't have figured it our without my gf.

Spoiler: It is

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Cumin :::

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You have to provide the user, group and file name as the next three guesses, just trust me!

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