If you're having difficulty figuring out how to pronounce "data," say database.

It feels less in my control, and at least tells me what I say.

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db2@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 1y (3 replies)

People who say data are wrong, period. It's data and always will be.

SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 1y

I agree. I've always said this.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

But is it pronounced "database" or "database"?

misterdoctor@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

Database, obviously?

slippyferret@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 49 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Great. Now I’m unsure of how to pronounce database as well.

RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

Easy fix, just say datum five times fast

TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 1y

/ ˈdeɪ tə/, /ˈdæt ə /

/ ˈdeɪ təˌbeɪs /

Source: dictionary.com

themeatbridge@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Uhhhhhh......that guy should see a doctor. His blood count is very low.

aaaa@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

How many bloods should a healthy man have?

TheRedSpade@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

I don't know the correct answer, but I think some would be a good start.

Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I definitely say both depending on the sentence and how it feels coming off the tongue. I also alternate between the and thee. No idea why, but it happens organically.

Reyali@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y

Route as well. Depends largely on if I’m talking about routing Internet traffic or Route 66, though.

FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 14 pts · 1y (2 replies)

You say data, and I say data. Let's call the whole thing off.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Tomato.

executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y

Potato

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 8 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Duh-Tuh Bah-Say

paranoia@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 1y

Dutty bussy

Twitches@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

🤣

ramble81@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y (4 replies)

It’s like when people pronounce mana like mana, it’s very annoying.

stickyShift@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Pronounce like what? Mana-goose? Or Mana-in-the-middle?

topherclay@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

🎵life is unfaiiir. 🎶

LordGimp@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

Hana mean what mana mean and gana mean that too.

Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y

And potato and tomato and strawberry and aliuminium.

algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I had a comp sci teacher pronounce "data" and "database" differently. Drove me up a wall. I don't even care which way you say it, just make it the same ffs

LaoisheFu@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

No he was right; it's data and database. 100%

JTskulk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Bongers will say "dodderbase" unironically though.

josefo@leminal.space · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

metadata is the one that fucks me up

Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y

medadada

Alloi@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

if your unsure how to swim, just do it.

foggy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Listen, data is singular, and data is plural.

Data goes into a database. It's comprised of individual components of data.

You know it's true because you read this effortlessly.

pipe01@programming.dev · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Isn't data the plural of datum?

TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Not in English.

Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I feel like this is wrong. Source?

FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr · 3 pts · 1y

The thing is I have multiple ways of saying database as well 😂

Same problem

ccunning@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I think you mean datumbase

Logh@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You say data and I say data…

Grimtuck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Datum Data Date

terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Daughtabase, got it.

0ops@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

Don't caall meee daughta

-the database probably

Trex202@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The only difference between daughta and daughter is the last letters

DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y

It's not Tesla it's Teslerrr

MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (4 replies)
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XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I assume OP intended to force daytuh base, but I hear dada base fairly often. I don't know if it's more regional or more field related

spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I say it either way depending on how I feel at that moment, because people around me use different pronunciations so they all sound fine.

voracitude@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
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not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

There's no y in data or database. The only source of confusion is that Star Trek character weirdly dipthong-ing his name.

Tenkard@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
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