• @z00s
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    2611 months ago

    The real debate is whether it’s sudo or sudo.

    I know it means “super user do” so should be pronounced “sue doo”, but it just grates on my ear. To me it will always be “Sue dough”

      • @[email protected]
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        411 months ago

        So it should be pronounced “suh doo”?

        I’ll have fun annoying people with this pronunciation, thanks!

        • Cethin
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          211 months ago

          The u is from user I assume, not substitute, so pronounced sue if you want to maintain the original pronunciation of the word it’s from.

      • @z00s
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        111 months ago

        If you need to start with ackshully, then you don’t need to comment

          • @z00s
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            011 months ago

            You chose to he a dickhead, interesting

              • @z00s
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                111 months ago

                Yes, I see a lot of dickheads on the internet

    • Echo Dot
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      511 months ago

      It’s really confusing because “pseudo” pronounce the same way, means not real. So it’s like you only kind of have admin access but really there’s a lot of systems you can’t change. Except that’s not the case, and you have full access.

      • @Heavybell
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        311 months ago

        Yeah but you’re not really root, you just have permission to run things as root ;)

        That’s my flimsy justification for pronouncing it like pseudo, anyway.

    • @Sinthesis
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      411 months ago

      I have no source to back this up so maybe I came up with this in my own reality, but I thought it was related to, pseudo = pretended.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      411 months ago

      Ah, yeah, that fucked me up too few months ago, there are several videos on the subject. I think it’s a problem with words that are created as written first, and then got pronounced, in second place, like most tech lingo. As a non-native speaker those are always the hardest to speak correctly, and even english has no real consensus.

          • Echo Dot
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            211 months ago

            Gyif

            Also doesn’t help that apparently it’s named after a brand of peanut butter (why) that is only available in the states and nowhere else on earth.

            • @samus12345
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              211 months ago

              it’s named after a brand of peanut butter

              Not exactly; the word is an acronym which the creator then chose to pronounce like the peanut butter.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        Like SQL. It took me a bit time to learn that the one from MS is Sequel and the other ones are Es Queue El.

      • Echo Dot
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        111 months ago

        Yeah, and the ongoing debate of how to pronounce Godot - even the developers don’t seem to know

        • @[email protected]OP
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          111 months ago

          Ah, I’m a Godot developer and this is like pouring salt in my wounds. Waiting for Godot was written by an Irish man, but it’s the translation of his original work in French. On top of that mess, the original creators of the engine are from Argentina, a country that uses a variant of Spanish. So good luck with consensus there. French, Irish English or Argentinian Spanish are all canonical options there.