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[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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] 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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] 12 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 4 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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 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] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 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] 2 points 4 months ago

change own'uh

But chroot is schrude!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

That'd be "Zahtah"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 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.

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

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 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!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Ah yes I also call it “Sahtah”. Australian

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Ooh, can we start the SCSI thing again?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Those are both wrong. It’s Sat-uh.

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

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

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