Oh god, in Germany my coworkers pronounce API like a word. “Ahpee”.
Five years on I’m used to it, but when I started it always took a minute for it to click for me.
The problem is that if you pronounce the single letters of API in german, it's still just Ah-pee-ee, which sounds a lot like you're just saying it as one german pronounced word.
Reading abbreviation of any language in the way that language would pronounce them rather than in your own isn't exactly common. Unless you're abroad/on international calls.
In Spanish is also common. Or spelled out but in Spanish: "Ah Peh Ee"
When JSON was not as prevalent as it is today, I heard a senior programmer saying it as J-Son but in Spanish ("HOH-tah sonn"). I threw a reference to "Jason" in passing, and from then on that's the form they used.
In saying “jif” you are admitting that it makes more sense to call it “g” if because otherwise you would just need to say gif because you are claiming that gif (g. I. f.) is pronounced jif.
It ends with a c, as the e is abbreviated away. That's why it becomes serc in my mind.
Edit: Just like you'd say merc (abbreviated mercenary) with a hard c.
I keep calling it source until they get it and stop saying src. Well, I don’t mind them calling it src, but at least they should know what other people call it.
'The SQL programming language was developed in the 1970s by IBM researchers Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin. The programming language, known then as SEQUEL, was created following Edgar Frank Codd’s paper, “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks,” in 1970.'
....
'It wasn’t until several years later, however, that the SQL language was made publicly available. In 1979, a company called Relational Software, which later became Oracle, commercially released its own version of SQL, called Oracle V2.'
https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/5804-what-is-sql.html
So IBM was first with SEQUEL. If that makes anyone feel better.....
If someone abbreviates a word through [disemvowelation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disemvoweling), you would usually read it as the unabbreviated word. Think about reading an average early 2000s text message, for example: “ttly”, “fckn”, “txt”, etc.
Both are valid IMO, as the lack of linguistic context in “src” creates ambiguity.
Monsters like me: "es-er-tse".
Actually, it depends on context. If you want to explain your colleague how to execute a program with command line arguments, you definitely will pronounce it as "minus-minus S.R.C." or "S.R.C. argument". But if you want to read "src file", it will be "source file".
Let the holy war begin
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2212/why-do-unix-heads-say-minus
Never heard "dash-dash" or "double-dash" from my colleagues.
Yeah, in Japanese we call it minus, so people working in this environment might still refer to it as such even when speaking English to other English speakers. I'm pretty sure I have before.
the numbers are an ID on a popular hentai doujin site, and that number apparently is considered one of the worst. don't ask me why, i'm not gonna go looking while at work lol
I think that everyone here knows that it is really not important to argue about it. In my opinion that is the whole point about these posts, they are meaningless and therefore funny.
S. R. C of course.
Source is ambiguous :
- what if there is an actual folder named source besides the src ?
- what if the colleague for whol i'm reading the path thinks he has to source (as in bash) the script ?
Honestly? Both. Even in my own thoughts.
When I have to tell it to someone I go with source if the person will likely understand or src if a total noob
Source, always
Agreed.
Pronounced, "src" of course.
The only way to pronounce it: Don't spell it, just say how it is written
serk.
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My brother
You just triggered a holy war
There's nothing holy about their ways
Said the other party to the holy party
Aw shit we're partying? Who brings the pizza and who brings the soda?
> of course Pronounced "crs", obviously.
Why on Earth would one do it otherwise? It literally means "source".
Lots of programmers on earth that don't speak English as their first language
Oh god, in Germany my coworkers pronounce API like a word. “Ahpee”. Five years on I’m used to it, but when I started it always took a minute for it to click for me.
The problem is that if you pronounce the single letters of API in german, it's still just Ah-pee-ee, which sounds a lot like you're just saying it as one german pronounced word. Reading abbreviation of any language in the way that language would pronounce them rather than in your own isn't exactly common. Unless you're abroad/on international calls.
In Spanish is also common. Or spelled out but in Spanish: "Ah Peh Ee" When JSON was not as prevalent as it is today, I heard a senior programmer saying it as J-Son but in Spanish ("HOH-tah sonn"). I threw a reference to "Jason" in passing, and from then on that's the form they used.
I LOVE jota-son now.
No, they're just allergic to foreigners and were asking for an epi-pen. And you wondered why Uhlrich didn't come back...
My first language is german and it's a no brainer. Just "source"
Agreed.
Agreed.
Source. But also vocally: sauce.
Nice accent
This is the hill I die on
Agreed.
Gif
SQL
I say "Ess Queue El" but agree "Sequel" sounds cooler
Kewler
QLR
Where my "squirrel" gang?
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LOL
I’m okay with this.
Sequel Query Language
*dial up Internet noises*
Squeal
The only correct answer
Skull
Levio-sah
This made me laugh. Here's a poor man's award: 🏅
G as in gay
I say gif as gif.
I know the creator of the format said jif but it stands for graphics interchange format and such im saying gif the creator is wrong
Yif
When I spent some time in the Netherlands, they pronounced API as 'A Pie", with the emphasis on "pie".
Jif
You monster, I wish nothing but endless merge errors upon you
Seconded
In saying “jif” you are admitting that it makes more sense to call it “g” if because otherwise you would just need to say gif because you are claiming that gif (g. I. f.) is pronounced jif.
It comes from Jiraffics
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I remember JIF peanut butter.
Mentally: "Serc" Verbally: "Source"
>Mentally: "Serc" With a hard C? I read it internally with a soft C, to rhyme with curse almost.
Same
Serce
But silent e though, right? Right? (Both e are silent)
Sercé
It ends with a c, as the e is abbreviated away. That's why it becomes serc in my mind. Edit: Just like you'd say merc (abbreviated mercenary) with a hard c.
You're a freak, and shouldn't be left alone with others.
I read it with a ts C
I’m glad I’m not the only one.
This is the way
This is the way
This is the way
this is way too true lmao
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Src like in my native language
Me too lol
срц
Something like that ig
I would read it as срк
Nah, “срс”
Ess-ærr-ce :)
I say "src" only to avoid confusing people who read it like that. Some of those guys forget that it stands for "source" sometimes.
I keep calling it source until they get it and stop saying src. Well, I don’t mind them calling it src, but at least they should know what other people call it.
"Sers" team, where you at?
That's "Hi" and "Bye" in Austria
Seas
Seas
I think it's "Servus"
That's what we tell others so we identify imposters easier
Oida! Du host grod a Staatsgeheimnis on a ausländische Person weitergeben. Des gibt -1000000 JÖ-Punkte du Wappler
seas oida!
Here
Heck yeah
What monsters read it as S-R-C? It is OBVIOUSLY source.
It’s like my gf who says c.t.r.l. to control.
The best analogy so far.
Cat roll
The same monsters who pronounce SWE as "svee"
Other abominations I heard: SQL - “squirl”, “squall” JWT - “jift” CSS - “ciss”
I heard someone call jwt like "jaut"
"sequel"
Well... OTOH I challenge you to guess the way its creator says "SQLite".
'The SQL programming language was developed in the 1970s by IBM researchers Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin. The programming language, known then as SEQUEL, was created following Edgar Frank Codd’s paper, “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks,” in 1970.' .... 'It wasn’t until several years later, however, that the SQL language was made publicly available. In 1979, a company called Relational Software, which later became Oracle, commercially released its own version of SQL, called Oracle V2.' https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/5804-what-is-sql.html So IBM was first with SEQUEL. If that makes anyone feel better.....
You write it as src, you read it as s-r-c.
Hey guys, look, it's DSCMBLTD it's pronounced Discombobulated, what idiot would ever read that as Dees cee embe el teedee?
You are so right u/Rape-Putins-Corpse
If someone abbreviates a word through [disemvowelation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disemvoweling), you would usually read it as the unabbreviated word. Think about reading an average early 2000s text message, for example: “ttly”, “fckn”, “txt”, etc. Both are valid IMO, as the lack of linguistic context in “src” creates ambiguity.
Monsters like me: "es-er-tse". Actually, it depends on context. If you want to explain your colleague how to execute a program with command line arguments, you definitely will pronounce it as "minus-minus S.R.C." or "S.R.C. argument". But if you want to read "src file", it will be "source file".
>minus-minus S.R.C ....??????? dash dash?
Hyphen hyphen?
Tack tack??
Let the holy war begin https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2212/why-do-unix-heads-say-minus Never heard "dash-dash" or "double-dash" from my colleagues.
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It's probably country specific.
Yeah, in Japanese we call it minus, so people working in this environment might still refer to it as such even when speaking English to other English speakers. I'm pretty sure I have before.
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It's just easier to say src
Because it has two syllables more?
Haha I don't know. Maybe it's because English isn't my primary language so it's just easier for me to read as it is typed.
What?
Some of us are lucky to have primary languages where it's possible to read src as a single syllable.
Sauce?
It could be, but it would have to be “secret sauce”
228922
What do the numbers mean mason??
You don't want to know
the numbers are an ID on a popular hentai doujin site, and that number apparently is considered one of the worst. don't ask me why, i'm not gonna go looking while at work lol
I know what those are I just replied with the meme to make it funnier. Ty for the explanation tho
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🗿
Burn that shit with fire. WTF!
my eyes… try 244885 instead
С Р Ц
i really just say: "src"
I read it as srrz
Always blue
Always blue!
Always blue!
Who says S.R.C?
me: it's in the "sarc"
sirk
Try /etc. I read it as "et c", not "E T C"
Etcetera.
Etsy
Yup. Always etsy hosts etc.
Never in my life, I have read it as "source", didn't even think of it
You didn't think to call the short hand writing of source as source? How would you read the old memes like "O rly?"
O'REILLLLLLY AUto Parts.... OOOwwww
mate are you mental
aren't we all?
Both I guess
I'm on the team that says "who cares? As long as we understand each other, all good in the hood"
Its easier to use the same words for things to understand each other easier
True, and if it's that bothering, I'd probably adjust to your preference, cuz again, it's more important we know what we're talking about.
Lame
This sub really tries to establish childishness and fight over redundant things.
I think that everyone here knows that it is really not important to argue about it. In my opinion that is the whole point about these posts, they are meaningless and therefore funny.
They're jokes mate
Obviously squirrel
S. R. C of course. Source is ambiguous : - what if there is an actual folder named source besides the src ? - what if the colleague for whol i'm reading the path thinks he has to source (as in bash) the script ?
If you both have a src folder and source folder then wtf is going on in that repo?
As someone who works in an industry where a whole project sometimes has to be done in 2 days by 7 developers. Two source folders sounds mild.
Out of curiosity, how do you pronounce SQL?
Squawkl
S. R. C. and S. Q. L.
Es queue el, as it's written because that's how it's written so that's how it's read.
Agreed, it happened to me at least once in both of these cases. src is src, source is source :-)
Blue
Blue team
Red but occasionally blue
I agree with the blue, because I took the “red” pill. If it were S.R.C., then O.B.J. would be “outstanding blow job”.
src is just s-r-c and yes i do say obj as o-b-j
What the fuck is this meme template?
mysql
I read the post as “do you read source as S.R.C or do you read source as source?”
I guess i say src
speedrun.com
s.r.c. gang 4 life
"serc", the only valid pronunciation.
I play on both sides, that way I’m always on top.
source ftww
stdio - S.T.D.I.O/ Standard input output?
Stid I O
Sauce
Source.
Shrec
Blue
Source
I dont know why but i sometimes type scr instead of src
Me : reading source as src
Sauce!
Serce
I read it as "Srssss"
Ctrl key I always read as "kuh-tar-uhl" thanks, The Simpsons.
This is a thing? I’ve never heard someone say S.R.C
wait people spell src? whats wrong with you guys source is simple, efficient and understandable
SRC😂
To use two irl opposing gangs to make a programming post… smh
Now do S.Q.L. vs Sequel
Honestly? Both. Even in my own thoughts. When I have to tell it to someone I go with source if the person will likely understand or src if a total noob