Though I know it means "et cetera" when reading my brain has always "heard" that word - whether in the context of the word "etc." or the computing /etc - as pronounced "ettick." As in, "you need to edit your ettick f-stab file."
et-see is the objectively correct version, ee-tee-see is the marginally more correct, but less funny version of it. And etcetera is just illegal, you should be jailed if you ever say that.
TIL, I had no clue why we call this arbitrary important file a file stab, but fs tab makes sense now. F stab is more fun to say though (but has probably confused more than just me)
58 Comments
JetpackJackson@feddit.de · 127 pts · 2y
I was shocked when I realized people pronounced it fs-tab lmao
Linguist@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 2y
Mentally I say Fs-tab because its filesystem table but if I ever say it out loud its f-stab
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 22 pts · 2y
Madness.
JetpackJackson@feddit.de · 8 pts · 2y
Now that's insanity
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 2y
I'm calling the authorities. All of them.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 2y
Oh shit. Does that stand for file system?
Revan343@lemmy.ca · 39 pts · 2y
File system table
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 2y
*File System Table-stab
clif@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y
I've never heard fs-tab in my life. Always f-stab. Hmmm...
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 24 pts · 2y
TIL for me
JetpackJackson@feddit.de · 4 pts · 2y
Congrats for being one of today's lucky 10000! Sauce
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 8 pts · 2y
Was the other way around for me. F-stab just makes no sense.
JetpackJackson@feddit.de · 12 pts · 2y
Idk its just how my brain decided to "chop up" the word if that makes sense
tourist@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
stab up the word
JetpackJackson@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y
Sure we can put that way lol
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 2y
But it sure is memorable!
mikyopii@programming.dev · 104 pts · 2y
g-unzip?
gun-zip
I used this command way before I used gzip so I didn't put it together.
clif@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 2y
gun-zip just rolls off the tongue better. Two syllables instead of three? Yes, please.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Gun Zip - you literally shoot the gz file and it explodes like a piñata of files all over the dir you gun zipped it in.
Artyom@lemm.ee · 82 pts · 2y
Ah yes, the file stabber, not to be confused with a file system tabulation, which it definitely is not.
sundray@lemmus.org · 54 pts · 2y
1984@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 2y
File stabber is a good name. :)
rem26_art@fedia.io · 65 pts · 2y
... it never occurred to me that it could be fs tab
tor@poeng.link · 3 pts · 2y
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 2y
Go fsck yourself
ramius345@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 2y
Know what it means. Still call it f stab.
Lobreeze@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 2y
F-stab easier to say and more fun to say
I'll die on this hill
snugglebutt@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 2y
I'll defend this hill with you
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
By stabbing
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 2y
It is what its always been. F stab
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y
Mental outlaw said that and it just stayed in my head ever since. Just like /etc is 'etsy'.
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org · 20 pts · 2y
Or SQL is Squeal
UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Sacrilege!
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 2y
No squeal
OrgunDonor@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
SQL has always been Skull in my head. I think it is because I hated it when in college and associated it with dying inside.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 2y
https://xkcd.com/1989/
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2y
Not sequel?
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Though I know it means "et cetera" when reading my brain has always "heard" that word - whether in the context of the word "etc." or the computing /etc - as pronounced "ettick." As in, "you need to edit your ettick f-stab file."
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 2y
How else would you say /etc ?
bitwaba@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
E-T-C
Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Echo Tango Charlie
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 2y
TacoNot@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 2y
et cetera
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org · 24 pts · 2y
It took me a lot longer than I'd like to admit to realize that it was FS Tab.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 2y
Shit, just say f-stab and enjoy someone "correcting" you, only to smile and continue to say it that way.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 2y
f stab is real shit bro
fs tab is for losers.
real men say et-see, not etcetera.
Matombo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
i say ee-tee-see
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y
et-see is the objectively correct version, ee-tee-see is the marginally more correct, but less funny version of it. And etcetera is just illegal, you should be jailed if you ever say that.
dodos@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
TIL, I had no clue why we call this arbitrary important file a file stab, but fs tab makes sense now. F stab is more fun to say though (but has probably confused more than just me)
palordrolap@kbin.social · 12 pts · 2y
I think I might be the third option: f'ss-tab.
Couldn't tell you where that's from. When I first ran Linux, the year didn't start with a 2.
recapitated@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
This meme fscks
joes@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y
it's tune-2fs, right
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
and before that, get the drive name from the "black kid".
Matombo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
oh nice i'm not the only f-stabbing psycho
PINKeHamton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
Its FS Tab never knew
Matombo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
now where is the f-sck (spoken f-sack) gang?
DickFiasco@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
I always pronounce it "fezzik" like Andre the Giant's character from The Princess Bride.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Kuba@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y
I say FS-stab