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    [–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (11 children)

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

    [–] halvar@lemm.ee 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    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 5 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] halvar@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

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

    [–] BlueKey@kbin.run 16 points 5 months ago

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

    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

    [–] dustyData@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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 5 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

    Gotta be verbs — Destroy Data.

    [–] meekah@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

    [–] JetpackJackson@feddit.de 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] JetpackJackson@feddit.de 2 points 5 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

    [–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 7 points 5 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.

    [–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

    [–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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

    [–] KrapKake@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

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

    [–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 months ago

    change own'uh

    But chroot is schrude!

    [–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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

    [–] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    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 5 months ago (3 children)

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

    [–] onion@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago

    That'd be "Zahtah"

    [–] palordrolap@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    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 5 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] palordrolap@kbin.social 2 points 5 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!

    [–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

    Ah yes I also call it “Sahtah”. Australian

    [–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

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

    [–] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Ooh, can we start the SCSI thing again?

    [–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

    Scuzzy! :D

    [–] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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