6 Feb
2020
6 Feb
'20
4:22 a.m.
Sex the UNIX way
# unzip
# strip
# touch
# finger
# mount
# fsck
# more
# yes
# umount
# sleep
On 2/5/20, Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Frodo (Ted Kowalski) told me it was originally
spelled, and pronounced,
fuck, for good reason, but he soon realized it was going to be used by
others and changed one letter. It was just letters after that.
-rob
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 1:34 AM Clem cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
FWIW. When it was written, Ted and I used
pronounced it as “fisk” (rhymes
with “disk”), but F. S. C. K. was always acceptable to my ears. I admit
I
smiled one time when I heard some one call it “f-sick” but that was not
considered the proper pronunciation.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not
quite.
On Feb 5, 2020, at 3:45 AM, arnold(a)skeeve.com
wrote:
"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
At 2020-02-04T09:40:18+0100, Sijmen J. Mulder
wrote:
> markus schnalke <meillo(a)marmaro.de> wrote:
>> Wikipedia writes that `ed' would be pronounced ``ee-dee'' (like
>> ``vee-eye''), is that what you english speakers do?
Certainly not. When one sees a command name that duplicates a
frequently-used diminituve of a common name, the brain is going to
select that preferentially.
ISTR thinking of it and calling it e-d, along with r-m, l-n, m-v and
the other two-letter commands.
(And did people really say
"dee-eye-tee-roff" for "ditroff"?)
I did ... Although it's "groff" and not "g-roff". :-)
FWIW,
Arnold