How do you pronounce daemon? (piefed.zeromedia.vip)

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Demon? Damon? Or something more exotic?

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[-] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 100 points 2 months ago

Day mon

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 57 points 2 months ago

What do you want, Picard?

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 42 points 2 months ago

Daymon. Fighter of the nightmon. Champion of the sun.

[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 months ago

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[-] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago

Day Man

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 47 points 2 months ago

Fighter of the Night Man

[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

He's a master of command lines and shell scripts for everyone!

[-] Delta_V@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

AaAaAa

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 months ago

[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Demon"

It was always "demon" (spelled daemon or dæmon), as in a spiritual attendant. Christian mythology has poisoned the word, and anyone who says "daymon" to not offend them is a coward.

See here:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demon

Edit: When I say it was always pronounced "demon", I mean the nerds who started calling a small background program daemon pronounced it "demon".

[-] BetterDev@programming.dev 28 points 2 months ago

Calm your tits (meaning your birds), I say "daymon", and I relish any opportunity to offend the overly devout.

My reason is simple: I learned the word by reading it and sounding it out, and that's more badass than "haha I say demon because I'm edgy"

[-] spartanatreyu@programming.dev 20 points 2 months ago

I say daymon not to avoid offence, but since it sounds cooler than demon.

A demon sounds like a fiend that has only been around for at most a few hundred years, but a daemon sounds like it has been around for a few thousand so it is much more dangerous.

[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

While offending Christians is welcome in this day and age, the marked Latin and Greek history of the word, originating as "daímōn" with an 'a', and the fact that 'æ' exists, both make "dæmon" a cool enough spelling that I'm keeping it, and the fancier spelling helps keeping safe and separate from the christofascist corruption of the word for when I am more in mind of the mechanics and purposes rather than having to be a soldier in someone else's cultural war.

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[-] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago

The 'ae' in daemon is the same as the æ in encyclopædia.

[-] entwine@programming.dev 22 points 2 months ago

How do you pronounce encyclopædia?

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

the same as daemon

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[-] Eldritch@piefed.world 9 points 2 months ago

Just as it reads. You smash that E into the A's ass. Starting the E before the A finishes.

[-] SilverCode@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Dammit! Now I have to pronounce Encyclopaedia incorrectly 😞

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 26 points 2 months ago

It’s just an old spelling of demon. So that.

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[-] teft@piefed.social 26 points 2 months ago

Same way that I say Matt Damon.

Matt Daemon

[-] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

[-] msokiovt@lemmy.today 25 points 2 months ago

I say at day-mon.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 23 points 2 months ago

Same as demon. Because my research indicates that this usage was originally a reference to Maxwell's demon.

https://www.takeourword.com/TOW146/page4.html

[-] tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social 16 points 2 months ago

I usually go for J̵̧̢̢̢̡̩͎̙͙̹͇̞̯̯͇̞̭̯̙̻̲͖̻̗̫̙̲̪̫̥̦͇̭͇͍̤̳̫̖̪̗̈ö̸͓̱̭͔͓̼͔́̄̆̑̅͛̈̉̆̓̿̾̓̒̑͂̃̃͑̏̄̈͛̄̈̂̌̑̂̆͛̅͘̚̚͘͝r̶̡̢͉̤͎̲̥̮̻̟͉̩̗̠̝̖̬͈̹͓͈̱̹͖͕̩͎̉̑̋̂̀̍̇͋́̐͆̇͋́m̶̢̢̨̢̨̭̪̹͓̜̱̼̬̘͖̬̝̩̤̘̰̮͕͎͈̭͖͕͎̳͓̺̟͒͑̈́͊̓̾̆͂͂͒̕͘͜͠ͅü̵̢̢̧̢̢̞̹̼̱̲̯̟͕̞̖̞̖̪͙͓̈́̓́̈́̎̓͐̂͆̏̍̍͒̾̀͒̍̎̐̊̀͊̓̋̀̀̋͑͊͑̚͘͝͠͝͝͝ņ̴̡̢̛̛̪̺̻̺͎̪̯͎̪̦͔̱͕̱̫̬̞̦̝̃̽͊̆͌̈́͂̈́̈́̾̋̐͋̋̐͋̏͆̄̄̽͗̒͋̌͒͂͘͜͠͝͝͝͠g̸̛̰̱̣̺͇̒̈́͐̓̿͑́̂̂̔̏̈́͊̔̅̌̈́̍̿͆̄͒͑̀̊͘͘͜͝a̶̦̯̦̹̘̪̞̗̟͇̲̣̳̩̔́́͗̈́͛̀͋͛̌̉̐̾͋́̇̄̍̈́̾̏̿̐̔̔͘̚n̶̡̻͎͔̬̣̲͋̽͒̒̏͋̈́́́d̵̨̧̢̢̡̗̱̼̙͔̤̤̣͓̖̼͍̻̰̭̗̬̟̙̗̿̿̒̎̌̓̆̋̈́͂̊͊̿͊͗̐̿͜r̷̡̦̱̖͖̙̥̫͙̞̲̬̫̼̞̫̖̜̦̰̙̗̯̠̹̗̲̪̯̻̖͇͚̳̿͂͆͒̂̎̇͛͂̈̐͒̄͊͘͠͝ but some purists find that too much so I tone it down to “baddie”.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 14 points 2 months ago

ˈdiː.mən

And don't ever ask random people how to pronounce 'router'.

[-] Maestro@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

So, what is it? Rooter? Or rauter?

[-] who@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's somewhat regional. Lots of Americans pronounce the ou as in ouch, but lots of other folks pronounce it as in root (recognizing that route is its root word).

[-] moody@lemmings.world 6 points 2 months ago

(recognizing that route is its root word)

You could also ask people how they pronounce route and get different answers.

[-] who@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Aye. Which reinforces what I wroot.

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[-] numbermess@fedia.io 14 points 2 months ago

D ayyyyy mon

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

Samy way as the actor, Matt.

[-] nomecks@lemmy.wtf 12 points 2 months ago

Demon, because it offends purists, and FreeBSD's mascot is a demon.

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Day-mon, every Linux admin I've worked with, old and young, pronounces it that way too, so that's where I picked it up.

I've never heard of people deliberately pronouncing it like that to avoid offending Christians though, seems like an American take lol.

I thought that it was just an archaic spelling of the modern demon and an alternative pronunciation to clairify that the speaker is referring to a technical part of an OS, not making a joke about the spiritual nature of the machine lol.

It sounds cooler to say day-mon anyways IMO.

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[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

service

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago

both honestly. I think when I see it I think damon mostly but I might say that and I might say demon.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 9 points 2 months ago

You people use meat flapping to communicate?

[-] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 8 points 2 months ago

In case you ever wondered where it came from in computing.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

I thought it was a reference to Maxwell's demon.

Daemons in computing, generally processes that run on servers to respond to users, are named for Maxwell's demon.

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[-] who@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈdiː.mən/

Rhymes: -iːmən

Hyphenation: dae‧mon

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daemon

Rhymes

daemon, demon

freeman

seaman

Seaman (surname - see especially David Seaman)

semen

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/i%CB%90m%C9%99n

[-] Olap@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Demon, so I can kill them, spawn them, or send them signals to die!

[-] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago

대몬

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

I would pronounce it "DEEmon" but that gets some religious folks all freaked out, so I usually go with "DAYman".

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

day-min

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago

"DAH-ay-mon," I choose you! Use your exec ~/thunder_sma.sh!

[-] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel)

One of my favorite cyberpunk novels.

[-] dsilverz@calckey.world 4 points 2 months ago

@guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip @linux@programming.dev

"Why thou summoneth me?" Lol
Just kidding!

I'm Brazilian, so I pronounce Daemon in such a Brazilian (specifically the southeast, "paulista"/from state of São Paulo variation) accent:

Daah-eh-monn

Or, if my IPA literacy is correct:

/dajˈmõ/

The Daemon I use in my pseudonym is inspired both by the Unix daemons (because I'm a DevOps and also a Linux daily user), as well by the esoteric daemons (as in the original Greek definition of daimon, spirits, due to my belief system).