• @mumblerfish
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    218 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      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)

    • @dustyData
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      158 months ago

      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
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        198 months ago

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

      • silly goose meekah
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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.

    • TimeSquirrel
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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.

      • @mumblerfish
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        138 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          28 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]
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      78 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.

      • @mumblerfish
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        28 months ago

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

    • @KrapKake
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      48 months ago

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

    • @platypus_plumba
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      27 months ago

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

    • @db2
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      28 months ago

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

      • FQQD
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        58 months ago

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

        • palordrolap
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          28 months ago

          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
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            18 months ago

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

            • palordrolap
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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!

      • @mumblerfish
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        38 months ago

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

      • @ccunning
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        28 months ago

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