I know how LaTeX is pronounced but I always read it the same as latex.
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Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Curious, is anyone pronouncing them the same or does this only work in text?
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
latex-project.org says “lah-tech” or “lay-tech”
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
If you pronounce project like you pronounce latex, you could call it latex projext.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The X is pronounced “tweet” apparently.
tburkhol@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve only heard LaTeX pronounced like latex in media where someone uses it to show what a geek some character is. eg, I’ve been typsetting my homework assignments in latex since I was 9.
toynbee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve never encountered that kind of LaTeX in media.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve always pronounced it “Lah-tekh”
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’re pronounced so differently my wife didn’t get it until I informed her that LaTeX is how “latec” is spelled
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’ve literally never heard anybody pronounce them differently, your comment confused me at first but TIL.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Wait is the TeX not short for “text”? I’ve always pronounced them the same.
pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
The “X” is the greek letter, pronounced like the ch in Bach. Knuth explains this in the TeXbook, think TeXnician, not TeXpert.
CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve not heard anyone pronounce them the same, but I don’t doubt they’re out there. Probably a decent overlap with the people who pronounce GIF like the peanut butter.
corvi@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I guess I’m one of them. I’ve never used LaTeX, but I don’t know how else I’d pronounce that.
piranhaconda@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Lay-tech or Lah-tech is how I’ve been told it’s pronounced, don’t ask which one is correct, I don’t know
starman@programming.dev 1 month ago
IIRC it’s creator said it’s Lay-tech
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The last sound being one that afaik doesn’t exist in English. It’s like the j in jalapeño but waaay guttural. It’s the Greek letter χ.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The tex there has the Greek letter chi at the end and is supposed to be reminiscent of a Greek route for which we derived the word technique: techne or τέχνη. The tex there is just pronounced tech usually. The original intention I believe was for it to sound like the ch in loch or bach but that sound isn’t common in modern English.
matiamas@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not to be too pedantic, the modern Greek chi is a voiceless velar fricative (or in some cases a voiceless palatal fricative) rather than uvular. The velar location is the same place English pronounces the letter k, uvular is a bit further back, more like the French r. It’s a little confusing because the IPA uses the chi symbol for the voiceless uvular fricative even though Greek doesn’t pronounce it that way. In Klingon, the voiceless velar fricative is written as H (I believe gh is a voiced velar fricative rather than uvular as well). I think the uvular consonants are q and Q. Apologies if my pedantry was unwelcome
0x0@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Uvular fricative somehow reminds me of friction of the vulva.
They’re nor related, are they?
MTK@lemmy.world 1 month ago
La-tech
rImITywR@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The ‘X’ at the end of LaTeX is actually a capitol chi, so it pronounced with a ‘k’ sound.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 month ago
It’s actually a ch-sound, as in Bach. But Knuth also thinks the k-pronunciation is fine.
Windex007@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My PhD supervisor insisted it was “Law-tex”
kayohtie@pawb.social 1 month ago
That’s how you can tell if someone is into latex (kink), they don’t feel comfortable calling LaTeX (tech) by the same pronunciation around people.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s pronounced yiff, right?
Wolf@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Yoosey mothers use yiff!
Wolf@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I call it ‘Jiff’ and will defend it to the death, for no other reason than I think it’s hilarious to have a very strong opinion on something so irrelevant. People get soo mad about it :D
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I always like to point out that outside of the US, Jiff means drain cleaner, although maybe that’s just a commentary on the quality of the peanut butter. Although frankly it doesn’t make the acronym any less ridiculous.
Wolf@lemmy.today 1 month ago
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The PB is spelled Jif, not Jiff.
The acronym isn’t ridiculous, it’s how the creator of the acronym pronounced it. People should be able to name their own babies.
0x0@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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