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[โ€“] RickRae@fosstodon.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Anticorp

There are so many computer terms like that! Gnu, which is the closest parallel to Gnome. SUSE Linux. Gif. Lib.

Me, I apparently learned most of them incorrectly. But those (mis)pronunciations are ingrained and comfy now.

Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE1fzk-4TJk&t=125s

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[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I never actually had to pronounce it, but in my mind MySQL was "my squeal" for years and years. The first time I talked to another PHP programmer about it I said "my squeal", and he did a double take, then said "hold on, what did you just say?". Then we had a pretty good laugh about it after he corrected me.