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• corvi@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • bss03@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s “Lay” because it’s borrowed from / referencing “lay person” i.e. not a member of the (TeX) priesthood.

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    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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. 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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      • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hey I’m regularly wrong and don’t mind being corrected.

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    • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Vulva or uvula?

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  • MTK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    La-tech

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  • rImITywR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My PhD supervisor insisted it was “Law-tex”

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    • kayohtie@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s pronounced yiff, right?

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  • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yoosey mothers use yiff!

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• Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        People should be able to name their own babies.

        Tell that to the SQL folks.

        And yes, it’s “sequel”. And “gif” like “gift”.

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      • bss03@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        People should be able to name their own babies.

        I disagree. I think persons should name themselves. But, I understand there are practicalities that require some name to be assigned by outsiders at least until the person can talk.

        For things that aren’t conscious or are incapable of speech, I think we collectively assign a name. I’m fine giving higher weight to the name chosen by the “creator” or “discover”, but I’m not fine with giving them veto power / final cut.

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  • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Welcome to the internet, have a cookie.

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