English language pronunciation question

[az]

I would just pronounce every every letter and say gee-oo-i-dee. BTW, how do you people pronounce SCSI? Many germans say "Skahzee", I just say ess tseh ess ee (german pronunciation of the separate letters).

AZ

[gt40]

scuzzy

[dZeus]

Originally posted by gt40
scuzzy

What are you apoligising for?


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[Wombat]

Originally posted by Brian Ellis
Personally, I would say that, in spoken language, it should always be pronounced in full, as character.
Conclusion: I maintain that it should not be abbreviated in spoken language, not even colloquially.

And you've missed the point entirely. <I>char</I> is technical jargon that has come into its own unique meaning. It is distinct from <I>character</I>.

<B>az</B>: I've heard a few different pronounciations, but none of them use the 'sh' sound from "Cher."

Personally, I say <I>char</I> the same as the English word it shares spelling with (this is called a homograph). Then, when you describe a dereference <I>char *</I>, there is a bit of rhyming when pronounced "char star."
"kar" is somewhat common, too.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by dZeus
What are you apoligising for?

I think you were just joking, but "scuzzy" doesn't sounds like that at all. It sounds like "skuz E," not like the French "excusez."

[dZeus]

I wasn't thinking of french but of italian (at least, I think it was italian)

[gt40]

Thought he meant the italian 'scusi' which is pronounced skoo - zee


edit: can you say 'cross post'??
I knew you could.

[Mehen]

As someone who has played too much diablo and has heard "char" spoken way too many times; I say it's 'char' as in 'charcoal'.

But you must remember, 'char' is an invention by gamers just like all of l337 sp34k, so it doesnt have to abide by the rules of the English language.

SCSI is skuzzy (or Skuzz-E) - same thing.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by |Mehen|

But you must remember, 'char' is an invention by gamers just like all of l337 sp34k

It is not. It's not leet, it's programmer. It's been in existence for decades.

[spadnos]

Well - I pronounce it like the word used in cooking (he charred the steak, charcoal).

My mother (also a programmer) pronounces it like "care" or "car".

She's wrong - it's char, like "I'm not going to make this well done, I'm gonna CHAR it!"

- Steve

[Jon P. Inghram]

If you were giving instructions over a phone to someone who didn't know programming it'd be best to pronounce it like the word char, like in spadnos's post, since it's spelt "properly."

If I were telling a programmer what to type I'd use either care or just character assuming that they'd know enough to not assign the type "care" to a variable and that the proper reserved word for the character type is "char."

[Wombat]

I used to think "character" was acceptable, but now with certain languages, the ideas aren't exactly the same. I can think of a couple languages that you'd end up in trouble if you treated them as interchangable, especially Java, where a character is not 8 bits.

[Marshmallowman]

Over the years I pretty much come to the conclusion that char is C/C++ is always pronouced as the char in charcoal..

Though saying the letters 'c' 'h' 'a' 'r' is not uncommon, more often than in not in teaching circumstance, or where where it may be usued in a ambigouous circumstances...

If you came up to me and said " this char declaration is wrong" and said it like "car" I would just look at you with a WTF expression on my face.

[Helevitia]

'care' is how I always said it.

[xortam]

Come to think about it, I think I used to use the soft "ch" version more than the "care" sound in recent years ... though it's been close to six years now so I've started to forget.