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    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Do y'all ponounce it as one word? Heard someone once say "c-h-own" and I was confused.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    c and h in my own language (hungarian) and own in english

    sounds something like

    pots-café-h-father-own (random words to illustrate the way the letters are pronounced)

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

    I'm in the "c-h-own" team.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I say it like "pwn". As in, if I'm sitting here chown-ing your shit, you're pretty much pwned.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I deconstruct all commands when used in spoken word, so I pronounce it “change ownership”. I also call ls, “list“ and cd “change directory”. For some reason this completely confuses and disorients everyone in the room.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Do you then read 'dd' as 'disk destoyer' to send chills down people's spines?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Gotta be verbs — Destroy Data.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I'd say change owner, but I'm with you otherwise. Although I do sometimes say change folder, old habits die hard.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I do, I tend to pronounce it rhyming with "clown"

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    So an /oun/ instead of an /ōn/? I hate it! :-D

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Yeah the instant I wrote it I knew I'd get some comments lol. I know it's "ch" + "own" but somewhere along the way my brain started pronouncing it rhyming with "clown" rather than "own" lol :p

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    I do, but that’s mostly because an old boss of mine did it, thought it was hilarious, and now I do too, because of the in joke

    Chown, rhymes with bone.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Like "see-age-own"? I'd pronounce it "ch-(like in change)-own".

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah. Then I think we are doing the same thing.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yes definitely as one word like ch as in change then own, same with chroot.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    change own'uh

    But chroot is schrude!

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I do, but regarding pronunciations it's S-A-T-A not Saytuh and I'll die on that hill.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    I pronounce it in swedish so that its just Satan without the -n.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Ooh, can we start the SCSI thing again?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Those are both wrong. It’s Sat-uh.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    I just realized I have never said this word out loud, but in my mind it sounds like "shown"