Kong Yiji showed an extremely happy expression, tapped his two finger’s long fingernails on the counter, nodded and said, “Right! Right!… There are four ways to write the character 回. Do you know them?”
A while back there was a fun repo on GitHub:
shimohq/chinese-programmer-wrong-pronunciation
It lists some words that domestic programmers tend to mispronounce.
Going through it I found I also got caught:Django is pronounced Jango, the D doesn't need to be pronounced
How to Pronounce Vim
This reminded me of when I was listening to senior Binghe chatting with someone about Common Lisp a while back
(a full hour of pure chatting, very rewarding to listen through)
he pronounced Vim letter by letter as V - I - M…
At that time I was very curious and went to check how most people pronounce Vim.
And in the all-mighty Vim Manual I found :help pronounce,
which says:
Vim is pronounced as one word, like Jim, not vi-ai-em. It’s written with a
capital, since it’s a name, again like Jim.
That is, Vim is pronounced as one connected word, just like reading Tim. Very scientific.
How to Pronounce Tmux
Unlike Vim, which has a relatively official pronunciation,
the pronunciation of Tmux can be a debate topic…
For example on Reddit some folks said, at their company because there’s no unified Tmux pronunciation, many people just installed Screen…
But most people feel Tmux should be pronounced Tee Mucks
For example, below there’s a fairly reasonable reply saying:
Tmux should be pronounced Tee Mucks, because Tmux is actually short for Terminal Multiplexer, so it should be pronounced T-Mux (Tee Mucks)
And someone else says:
The pronunciation rule for Tmux is very simple, just like Gmail
How to Pronounce Zsh
Actually similar to Tmux, most people think Zsh should be pronounced like Tmux, Gmail
because Zsh is short for Z Shell:
Actually you could also say that people who fuss over pronunciation just don’t have enough PM requirements to handle (smug face)
In summary,
I like hearing all sides.
Being able to understand different pronunciations all pointing to the same noun,
and also being able to choose the pronunciation I feel is most scientific to discuss issues with people :)