I used to be terrified of mispronouncing tech terms and I’ve slowly realized it really doesn’t matter.
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I was once on a troubleshooting call with a customer and needed to ask them to cd to /etc. I wasn’t sure if it’s pronounced “ee-tee-see” or “et-see” so I avoided saying it until I could quickly get my answer via google. Such a waste of mental headspace.
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And now I hear senior people pronounce sudo like “soo-doo” or nginx like “en-jinx” and realize it doesn’t make me think any less of them! I spent so much time and mental bandwidth worrying about something so unimportant.
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Replying to @mattstratton @aabrooks_
now i’m torn because i totally support
@aabrooks_ point and i pronounce things wrong all the time, sometimes even on porpoise but also it’s the word “do” like if someone _wanted_ to troll me, “senior people saying soo-doo” is a great way to do it, lol2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @mendel @aabrooks_
Hey, i resisted making a snarky comment about “en-jinx” so you can restrain yourself, mister.
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Replying to @mattstratton @aabrooks_
as long as we all agree there’s only one pronounciation of “ipsec”
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Replying to @mendel @mattstratton
This is another one I avoided saying until basically last week actually
since it’s always lowercase one word I thought it was “ip-sec” rather than “eye-pee sec”5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
although now that i think about it, this is a funny one, because I don’t care how people pronounce it, but it IS good to know that the “IP” at the beginning is the “IP” of TCP/IP! But there’s really nothing gained by knowing that the authors of nginx think it’s an engine.
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Replying to @mendel @mattstratton
Yeah agreed! I always suspected it had to do with IP but wasn’t totally sure.
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