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Yoo-fi? Yoo-ef-ee?

They shoulda made it easier to pronounce if they wanted people to call it that

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[–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

This breaks down for professionals that are self taught though. For example, I still to this day, say in my head "F-Stab " for fstab, instead of "F-S-Tab", and various other terms I learned when i was learning linux myself when I was 13. Didn't understand at the time that it stood for filesystems table, so f-stab is how I pronounced the term in my head. In the UEFI case, I'll just pronounce each letter at a time, U-E-F-I.

[–] gastroglizzy@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Give it time. "tracert" used to be "tray-cert" in my mind for the longest.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

I'm saying ‘trace-ert’ inside my mind, simply because that 's way cooler that ‘trace route’ or whatever.

[–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Its been over 20 years, lol f-stab ain't going anywhere.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago

Depends on the OS for me. Tracert is the way you say it, trace route is the way I say traceroute.

[–] tburkhol@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

nginx, "ing - inks" I'm terrible at license plate puns, too.

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I still pronounce it “n-jinx” even though I know now that’s wrong.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That's how everyone pronounces it in Russian, the native language of Igor Sysoev.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're not wrong, but Jesus...

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Being inside my mind is a curse, I admit. Also, I am technically wrong. According to their marketing page, it’s “engine x”.

[–] weps@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

like the guys that say interpreter and the other guys that say interpreter

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I know it's file system tab. Don't care I WILL fucking stab this piece of shit. Stupid cursed file.