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[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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

[-] halvar@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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)

[-] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] halvar@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] BlueKey@kbin.run 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

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

[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Gotta be verbs — Destroy Data.

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

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

[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] JetpackJackson@feddit.de 2 points 1 year 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

[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year 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.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] KrapKake@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

change own'uh

But chroot is schrude!

[-] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] onion@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

That'd be "Zahtah"

[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 2 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] palordrolap@kbin.social 2 points 1 year 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!

[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ah yes I also call it “Sahtah”. Australian

[-] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Ooh, can we start the SCSI thing again?

[-] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 1 year ago
[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Those are both wrong. It’s Sat-uh.

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

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