dennis

Anybody else ever use HoTMetaL to make a website?

PHP: fffffffp

hitttup, wuh wuh wuh

I thought HTML was hate em all.

HTML = hit mill
It's like a machine (mill) that gets you hits (web traffic)

HTTP = hitch tip
It's the tip of the hitch that you attach to the hit mill

SCSI was always skuzzy.

I feel like this one is relatively uncontroversial

URL pronounced as "earl" however? I'll spend all of my remaining energy in life ensuring the person saying it is stapled to the bottom of the Mariana trench with rebar

JSON Statham

I say Jay-sahn.

It isn't Jason, it's Jayson. But yeah, basically indistinguishable.

And the only sane choice, as opposed to Sequel.

J-Son ≠ K-Son

TIL, thank you. Still not gonna say it like that.

DNS is pronounced 'hosts' because it was originally one big text file.

That would explain why it's only American to I've ever heard referred to it like that. Every European developer I've ever heard referred to it as always called it SQL as would I.

Other DNS is definitely Dennis from now on.

Yeah except this name was already taken and then it became SQL, dropping the English.

Even the start of your wiki says:

Structured Query Language (SQL) (pronounced /ˌɛsˌkjuˈɛl/ S-Q-L; or alternatively as /ˈsiːkwəl/ ⓘ

Thanks for making the comment I came to make. I imagine being older and remembering SQL as a new-ish thing really helped cement this, but when I started programming professionally for an enterprise, literally everyone pronounced it like this. I can see how and why it makes little sense to younger people.

Still gonna call it squirrel though

Came here to make this comment. So by the same logic, DNS or Domain Name System should have been abbreviated to DoNaS and pronounced dou-NAS.

This is amazing in its truthfulness.

Skill. Then you can reply to any database problems your coworkers bring up with "sounds like a skill issue to me".

Confusing because there is a DB client called SQuirreL.

But also relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1989/

Still wrong. Squeal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQRL

We pronounce it ancient.

Squl

sometimes its fun to stress wrong letters, like throwing out “ess-Kwall” or “seh-Kwall”

So say we all

Except me who call it Es-Queue-El as language intended.

/Old mans rant off

Want some URL Grey tea?

I CAN'T SLOW DOWN!
EARL!

Somewhere I heard that it should be pronounced as "Engine X"

that's how i pronounce it from the very first time i saw it

Jurassic Park (InGen) ruined any possibility of me ever pronouncing this the way they want me to. It'll always be In-Gen-Icks out of my lips, like it's a pharmaceutical company.

You say your name right! Now, dee-NICE!

E-p-s-t-e-i-n?

The orange one

T-r-u...

Pee Duff

Similarly, Nazi programmers say "ZIP FILE!!!"

"The most uneditable proprietary shit in the world that's somehow nonproprietary and ultra popular but really has no right to be any of these"

Aka one of the biggest paradoxes of modern computing.

If the nameserver says no, then the answer obviously, is no.

That's adorable!

Less so when you consider my rotten syntax

Die Hard Cosplay

Why? It originated as literally SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language). It only changed because of a trademark conflict.

Same, but I'm willing to team up with them against people who call it squeal.

I self-taught SQL on the job and was denied a promotion because I said S-Q-L instead of Sequel. The supervisor that was interviewing me for the job ended the interview early because of it. This was almost 10 years ago now and I'm still salty about it.

dennis has-

D'oHCuP? Like when you spill your coffee? 🤷🏻

True

Oddly divisive post. Ya'll doing ok?