• z00s@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The real debate is whether it’s sudo or sudo.

    I know it means “super user do” so should be pronounced “sue doo”, but it just grates on my ear. To me it will always be “Sue dough”

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      1 year ago

      It’s really confusing because “pseudo” pronounce the same way, means not real. So it’s like you only kind of have admin access but really there’s a lot of systems you can’t change. Except that’s not the case, and you have full access.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah but you’re not really root, you just have permission to run things as root ;)

        That’s my flimsy justification for pronouncing it like pseudo, anyway.

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      1 year ago

      Ah, yeah, that fucked me up too few months ago, there are several videos on the subject. I think it’s a problem with words that are created as written first, and then got pronounced, in second place, like most tech lingo. As a non-native speaker those are always the hardest to speak correctly, and even english has no real consensus.

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      1 year ago

      I have no source to back this up so maybe I came up with this in my own reality, but I thought it was related to, pseudo = pretended.