Pronunciation?

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Pronunciation?

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Is it - ree jecks ,

or - rej ecks ?

Or is it a hard g?
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Re: Pronunciation?

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dustrg wrote:rej ecks ?
Rej-ecks. Technically, I guess you could make it a hard 'g' since it's short for 'regular expressions,' but by the rules of the English language, it's a soft 'g.'
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Post by alex.barylski »

Reg Ex seeing how it's Regular Expressions ;)

Ultimately, I say potae-toes and you say potah-toes
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Hockey wrote:Reg Ex seeing how it's Regular Expressions ;)

Ultimately, I say potae-toes and you say potah-toes
Who in the hell says "potah-toes"? I've never heard that pronunciation in my life outside of that infernal song...
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ReverendDexter wrote:Who in the hell says "potah-toes"? I've never heard that pronunciation in my life outside of that infernal song...
It's more like 'potatoes' and 'potayytoes.' Depends on how 'cuntry' you are.
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Post by yankees26 »

I say:
re j ex

re like the renovation.
j like the letter.
And ex like the letter x (not sure why I put the 'e' in then...).

ree jecks reminds me of rejects...anyone else?

And I too have never heard potahtoes...but I have heard robot said like rowbutt.
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Post by Benjamin »

lol re-jects
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Post by iknownothing »

astions wrote:lol re-jects
Same. And with that Potato comment, I thought it was Tomatoes that were like that, not Potatoes. Tom Ate o's, Tom Art o's
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Post by The Phoenix »

Rehj-ecks

First part like "Reggie", second part like "Excellent".
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Post by TheMoose »

Hockey wrote:Reg Ex seeing how it's Regular Expressions ;)
Winner ;)

I always thought of it as this too, just seemed the logical assumption to make seeing as it's not a real word anyway (the shortened version anyway).
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TheMoose wrote:
Hockey wrote:Reg Ex seeing how it's Regular Expressions ;)
Winner ;)

I always thought of it as this too, just seemed the logical assumption to make seeing as it's not a real word anyway (the shortened version anyway).
Abbreviations don't need to sound exactly like the original word.
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superdezign wrote:Abbreviations don't need to sound exactly like the original word.
They don't need to, no, but the average person will assume that an abbreviation will sound similar to the full word.

Another example would be "char". Majority of DBA's I've ever talked with say "car", not "ch-arr", because it represents the word "character". It's easier to contextually understand "car" than it is "ch-arr" when talking about field types (although most know that if someone says "ch-arr" they mean "char" given the topic already being implied).
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Post by Sorayna »

I vote for the first one
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Post by ReverendDexter »

TheMoose wrote:
superdezign wrote:Abbreviations don't need to sound exactly like the original word.
They don't need to, no, but the average person will assume that an abbreviation will sound similar to the full word.

Another example would be "char". Majority of DBA's I've ever talked with say "car", not "ch-arr", because it represents the word "character". It's easier to contextually understand "car" than it is "ch-arr" when talking about field types (although most know that if someone says "ch-arr" they mean "char" given the topic already being implied).
I've always pronounced the datatype as it's spelled, and said "char". By your logic, it wouldn't be "car" if it was prounounced like a shortened version of the word anyway, it would be pronounced "care" (unless you pronounce it "car-ic-ter" instead of "care-ic-ter"?).

By pronouncing it with the 'h', then I'll type it with the 'h'.
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ReverendDexter wrote:
TheMoose wrote:
superdezign wrote:Abbreviations don't need to sound exactly like the original word.
They don't need to, no, but the average person will assume that an abbreviation will sound similar to the full word.

Another example would be "char". Majority of DBA's I've ever talked with say "car", not "ch-arr", because it represents the word "character". It's easier to contextually understand "car" than it is "ch-arr" when talking about field types (although most know that if someone says "ch-arr" they mean "char" given the topic already being implied).
I've always pronounced the datatype as it's spelled, and said "char". By your logic, it wouldn't be "car" if it was prounounced like a shortened version of the word anyway, it would be pronounced "care" (unless you pronounce it "car-ic-ter" instead of "care-ic-ter"?).

By pronouncing it with the 'h', then I'll type it with the 'h'.
You're missing my first sentence, that it will sound similar to the word; that doesn't mean it will sound exactly like the word. I personally don't even use abbreviations in conversation. I use the full word, as I assume that the person I am talking to knows that when I say character, I mean a single character, and not a cartoon character or whatnot. If I say integer, they know I'm referring to int, or if I say number, I'm referring to a double (or long). If they ask what I mean, it's usually because they are not a programmer, and I wasn't talking to them specifically in the first place, they just overheard a conversation I'm having regarding that stuff :P
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