I know how LaTeX is pronounced but I always read it the same as latex.
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Droggelbecher@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Curious, is anyone pronouncing them the same or does this only work in text?
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
latex-project.org says âlah-techâ or âlay-techâ
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
If you pronounce project like you pronounce latex, you could call it latex projext.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
The X is pronounced âtweetâ apparently.
tburkhol@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâve only heard LaTeX pronounced like latex in media where someone uses it to show what a geek some character is. eg, Iâve been typsetting my homework assignments in latex since I was 9.
toynbee@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâve never encountered that kind of LaTeX in media.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâve always pronounced it âLah-tekhâ
captainlezbian@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Theyâre pronounced so differently my wife didnât get it until I informed her that LaTeX is how âlatecâ is spelled
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâve literally never heard anybody pronounce them differently, your comment confused me at first but TIL.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Wait is the TeX not short for âtextâ? Iâve always pronounced them the same.
pmk@lemmy.sdf.org â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
The âXâ is the greek letter, pronounced like the ch in Bach. Knuth explains this in the TeXbook, think TeXnician, not TeXpert.
CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâve not heard anyone pronounce them the same, but I donât doubt theyâre out there. Probably a decent overlap with the people who pronounce GIF like the peanut butter.
corvi@lemmy.zip â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I guess Iâm one of them. Iâve never used LaTeX, but I donât know how else Iâd pronounce that.
piranhaconda@mander.xyz â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Lay-tech or Lah-tech is how Iâve been told itâs pronounced, donât ask which one is correct, I donât know
starman@programming.dev â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
IIRC itâs creator said itâs Lay-tech
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
The last sound being one that afaik doesnât exist in English. Itâs like the j in jalapeĂąo but waaay guttural. Itâs the Greek letter Ď.
roguetrick@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠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 ĎÎĎνΡ. 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 isnât common in modern English.
matiamas@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠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. Itâs a little confusing because the IPA uses the chi symbol for the voiceless uvular fricative even though Greek doesnât 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 â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Uvular fricative somehow reminds me of friction of the vulva.
Theyâre nor related, are they?
MTK@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
La-tech
rImITywR@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
The âXâ at the end of LaTeX is actually a capitol chi, so it pronounced with a âkâ sound.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Itâs actually a ch-sound, as in Bach. But Knuth also thinks the k-pronunciation is fine.
Windex007@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
My PhD supervisor insisted it was âLaw-texâ
kayohtie@pawb.social â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Thatâs how you can tell if someone is into latex (kink), they donât feel comfortable calling LaTeX (tech) by the same pronunciation around people.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Itâs pronounced yiff, right?
Wolf@lemmy.today â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yoosey mothers use yiff!
Wolf@lemmy.today â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I call it âJiffâ and will defend it to the death, for no other reason than I think itâs hilarious to have a very strong opinion on something so irrelevant. People get soo mad about it :D
echodot@feddit.uk â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I always like to point out that outside of the US, Jiff means drain cleaner, although maybe thatâs just a commentary on the quality of the peanut butter. Although frankly it doesnât make the acronym any less ridiculous.
Wolf@lemmy.today â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
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The PB is spelled Jif, not Jiff.
The acronym isnât ridiculous, itâs how the creator of the acronym pronounced it. People should be able to name their own babies.
0x0@lemmy.zip â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
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