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    [–] mumblerfish 21 points 5 months ago (11 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    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)

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

    I'm in the "c-h-own" team.

    [–] dustyData 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] mumblerfish 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

    Gotta be verbs — Destroy Data.

    [–] meekah 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I do, I tend to pronounce it rhyming with "clown"

    [–] mumblerfish 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    So an /oun/ instead of an /ōn/? I hate it! :-D

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

    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

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    Like "see-age-own"? I'd pronounce it "ch-(like in change)-own".

    [–] mumblerfish 2 points 5 months ago

    Yeah. Then I think we are doing the same thing.

    [–] KrapKake 4 points 5 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

    change own'uh

    But chroot is schrude!

    [–] db2 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

    That'd be "Zahtah"

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

    Ah yes I also call it “Sahtah”. Australian

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] mumblerfish 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

    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!

    [–] mumblerfish 3 points 5 months ago

    I pronounce it in swedish so that its just Satan without the -n.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Ooh, can we start the SCSI thing again?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

    Scuzzy! :D

    [–] ccunning 2 points 5 months ago

    Those are both wrong. It’s Sat-uh.

    [–] platypus_plumba 2 points 5 months ago

    I just realized I have never said this word out loud, but in my mind it sounds like "shown"

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    How about cmake?

    [–] ad_on_is 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    where's the "N"?

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Idk how this thingy on the screenshot works 🤷

    [–] ad_on_is 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    I also always start with "crane" 😁

    [–] ad_on_is 2 points 5 months ago

    crane and slipt... I even call it the crane-game 😂

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Did it work?

    [–] ad_on_is 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    nope

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

    Bastards. You should create an issue or something

    [–] craigers 4 points 5 months ago

    Hahaha I also tried this for the wordle today. Glad it's not just me.

    [–] greencactus 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

    Spoiler: It is

    Tap for spoilerCumin

    [–] ad_on_is 3 points 5 months ago

    yeah it was indeed difficult to guess

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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

    [–] Coldgoron -3 points 5 months ago

    Lemmy has many places to Wordle.