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    [–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    c and h in my own language (hungarian) and own in english

    sounds something like

    pots-cafΓ©-h-father-own (random words to illustrate the way the letters are pronounced)

    [–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] 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.

    [–] dustyData@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I deconstruct all commands when used in spoken word, so I pronounce it β€œchange ownership”. I also call ls, β€œlistβ€œ and cd β€œchange directory”. For some reason this completely confuses and disorients everyone in the room.

    [–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

    Gotta be verbs β€” 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.

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

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

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

    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) (1 children)

    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 (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 1 year ago (3 children)

    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 (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 1 year 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 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 β€œSahtah”. Australian

    [–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

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

    Ooh, can we start the SCSI thing again?

    [–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 1 year ago
    [–] ccunning@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

    [–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Idk how this thingy on the screenshot works 🀷

    [–] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    oh... it's a game where every day there's a 5 letter word you have to guess.

    you start with a random word and it shows you if the letters are in its corect place (green), wrong place (yellow) or they don't occur at all (gray).

    then you keep on guessing until you find the word or reach the limit.

    [–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

    Hmm, seems like it'd be interesting to automate :D

    [–] GregorTacTac@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

    Bastards. You should create an issue or something

    [–] observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I also always start with "crane" 😁

    [–] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

    crane and slipt... I even call it the crane-game πŸ˜‚

    [–] greencactus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It was a difficult wordle - I wouldn't have figured it our without my gf.

    Spoiler: It is

    Tap for spoilerCumin

    [–] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

    yeah it was indeed difficult to guess

    [–] craigers@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

    Hahaha I also tried this for the wordle today. Glad it's not just me.

    [–] shrugal@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

    You have to provide the user, group and file name as the next three guesses, just trust me!

    [–] Coldgoron@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

    Lemmy has many places to Wordle.