Pronunciation?
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Pronunciation?
Is it - ree jecks ,
or - rej ecks ?
Or is it a hard g?
or - rej ecks ?
Or is it a hard g?
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Re: Pronunciation?
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.'dustrg wrote:rej ecks ?
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They don't need to, no, but the average person will assume that an abbreviation will sound similar to the full word.superdezign wrote:Abbreviations don't need to sound exactly like the original 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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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"?).TheMoose wrote:They don't need to, no, but the average person will assume that an abbreviation will sound similar to the full word.superdezign wrote:Abbreviations don't need to sound exactly like the original 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).
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 stuffReverendDexter wrote: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"?).TheMoose wrote:They don't need to, no, but the average person will assume that an abbreviation will sound similar to the full word.superdezign wrote:Abbreviations don't need to sound exactly like the original 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).
By pronouncing it with the 'h', then I'll type it with the 'h'.