Camp lah-tek
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Speculater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, but that raises another argument, “lay tex” or “lay tek”… The endless fighting never stops!
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 11 months ago
Hupf@feddit.org 11 months ago
Too bad English doesn’t really have a en.wikipedia.org/…/Voiceless_palatal_fricative?wp…
barsoap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
For reference, the German pronunciation, same sound as in hew or human. Knuth says “TeX” is Tau, Epsilon, Chi, and says the Chi is supposed to be the voiceless velar fricative, as in Loch Ness. According to modern Greek phonetics, it can be either, ask an actual Greek how hard the fricative is supposed to be.
Hupf@feddit.org 11 months ago
Looks like we’ve got another argument on our hands! That’s not how we pronounced it at our uni and I don’t care what
Knuth says
/s
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Lay Tex Mex 🌮
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Lay tex.
Why bother to fit your acronym to latex otherwise. ConTexT is another one. Would be silly otherwise.
The creator might promote saying tech, but that shouldn’t matter since they Internet ignores the creator of the gif format and swears on ghif instead of the desired jiff…
klemptor@startrek.website 11 months ago
Lah-tek
Anything else is badness 10000
Speculater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve heard leh-tek more than lah-tek.