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[–] zemo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I will always judge people who say "sequel"

[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Why? It originated as literally SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language). It only changed because of a trademark conflict.

[–] zemo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

My native language is not English and saying "sequel" in this language is extremely forced and just not the norm. This bleeds over into English for me.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Its ok.

Let the script kiddies squeal and squirrel about.

The elder ones ... they were there when the code was written.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

That guy REALLY likes trademarks, apparently

[–] xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

I self-taught SQL on the job and was denied a promotion because I said S-Q-L instead of Sequel. The supervisor that was interviewing me for the job ended the interview early because of it. This was almost 10 years ago now and I'm still salty about it.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 days ago

Same, but I'm willing to team up with them against people who call it squeal.