Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX

• piranhaconda@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • bss03@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• MTK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  La-tech

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• rImITywR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago

  My PhD supervisor insisted it was “Law-tex”

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  • kayohtie@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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