• mumblerfish@lemmy.world
    21·
    1 year ago

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

    • halvar@lemm.ee
      18·
      1 year ago

      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)

      • FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyzEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        that’s surprisingly similarly to the german pronunciation of ch.

        • halvar@lemm.ee
          6·
          1 year ago

          As far as I know most of our letters are the same.

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
      15·
      1 year ago

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

        • JetpackJackson@feddit.de
          2·
          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

    • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee
      7·
      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.

    • KrapKake@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

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

    • platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

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

    • db2@lemmy.world
      31·
      1 year ago

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

      • FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyzEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        yes, you will. although i tend to use the german pronunciation, “Sahtah”.

        • palordrolap@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          I must have heard “saata” somewhere because that’s my head-pronunciation, and it doesn’t match how I say data (dayta). Not sure I’ve ever said it out loud.

          Could be an “avoiding saying anything like ‘Satan’” kind of thing, not because of religion, but more to avoid lame jokes.

          • mumblerfish@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            well “saata” is closer to the pronounciation of satan in finnish, “saatana”. Was it Linus you’ve heard?

            • palordrolap@kbin.social
              2·
              1 year ago

              Ha. No, I don’t think it was Linus, but it might have been someone else European. Really hard to be sure at this point. SATA has been around for a while.

              And I’ve unearthed a memory of the other, other pronunciation that I know I’ve heard: “serial ay-tee-ay”. Why make it an acronym when you can say one of the words and then the initials of the others!