Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX

Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • corvi@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess I’m one of them. I’ve never used LaTeX, but I don’t know how else I’d pronounce that.

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    • piranhaconda@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • starman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        IIRC it’s creator said it’s Lay-tech

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      • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • matiamas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Uvular fricative somehow reminds me of friction of the vulva.
        They’re nor related, are they?

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    • MTK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      La-tech

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    • rImITywR@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The ‘X’ at the end of LaTeX is actually a capitol chi, so it pronounced with a ‘k’ sound.

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      • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s actually a ch-sound, as in Bach. But Knuth also thinks the k-pronunciation is fine.

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    • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My PhD supervisor insisted it was “Law-tex”

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      • kayohtie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s pronounced yiff, right?

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    • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yoosey mothers use yiff!

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  • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the people who pronounce GIF like the peanut butter.

    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

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Welcome to the internet, have a cookie.

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• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know how LaTeX is pronounced but I always read it the same as latex.

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  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    latex-project.org says “lah-tech” or “lay-tech”

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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah. I’ve said it like the English word in my head for decades. I’ll keep doing it. Argle bargle.

      It’s like those ‘kevinist’ names where it sounds like ‘taylor’ but is spelled like ‘wishbone’ or something. Just. No.

      (Hush, Ceilidh, I almost have a sound argument)

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    • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you pronounce project like you pronounce latex, you could call it latex projext.

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The X is pronounced “tweet” apparently.

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• tburkhol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve never encountered that kind of LaTeX in media.

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve always pronounced it “Lah-tekh”

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re pronounced so differently my wife didn’t get it until I informed her that LaTeX is how “latec” is spelled

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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve literally never heard anybody pronounce them differently, your comment confused me at first but TIL.

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wait is the TeX not short for “text”? I’ve always pronounced them the same.

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  • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The “X” is the greek letter, pronounced like the ch in Bach. Knuth explains this in the TeXbook, think TeXnician, not TeXpert.

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