Demon? Damon? Or something more exotic?
How do you pronounce daemon?
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- 4 months
He’s a master of command lines and shell scripts for everyone!
- 4 months
The ‘ae’ in daemon is the same as the æ in encyclopædia.
- Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish4 months
Just as it reads. You smash that E into the A’s ass. Starting the E before the A finishes.
- Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubEnglish4 months
“Demon”
It was always “demon” (spelled daemon or dæmon), as in a spiritual attendant. Christian mythology has poisoned the word, and anyone who says “daymon” to not offend them is a coward.
See here:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demon
Edit: When I say it was always pronounced “demon”, I mean the nerds who started calling a small background program daemon pronounced it “demon”.
- 4 months
Calm your tits (meaning your birds), I say “daymon”, and I relish any opportunity to offend the overly devout.
My reason is simple: I learned the word by reading it and sounding it out, and that’s more badass than “haha I say demon because I’m edgy”
- 4 months
I say daymon not to avoid offence, but since it sounds cooler than demon.
A demon sounds like a fiend that has only been around for at most a few hundred years, but a daemon sounds like it has been around for a few thousand so it is much more dangerous.
- lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish4 months
While offending Christians is welcome in this day and age, the marked Latin and Greek history of the word, originating as “daímōn” with an ‘a’, and the fact that ‘æ’ exists, both make “dæmon” a cool enough spelling that I’m keeping it, and the fancier spelling helps keeping safe and separate from the christofascist corruption of the word for when I am more in mind of the mechanics and purposes rather than having to be a soldier in someone else’s cultural war.
- Chakravanti@monero.townEnglish4 months
You’re wrong. I say them both day-mon. Because they are the fucking same. That’s not a pun. It’s just one of the things they handle delivering to those who want that stuff.
Xtians are fucking evil. Evil was never and will never be real even though Daemons are. They’re imagining evil and going fucking Tenet.
Yeah. Tgat movie. That’s them. They did that. Go cry, Stan. You fucking CIA cartoon.
It’s still not and never will be real beyond their imagination.
- 4 months
Languages change over time, and we get to vote on which words we’d like changed by preferring cool ones over just “the way it has always been”
- 4 months
Same as demon. Because my research indicates that this usage was originally a reference to Maxwell’s demon.
- tiny_hedgehog@piefed.socialEnglish4 months
I usually go for J̵̧̢̢̢̡̩͎̙͙̹͇̞̯̯͇̞̭̯̙̻̲͖̻̗̫̙̲̪̫̥̦͇̭͇͍̤̳̫̖̪̗̈ö̸͓̱̭͔͓̼͔́̄̆̑̅͛̈̉̆̓̿̾̓̒̑͂̃̃͑̏̄̈͛̄̈̂̌̑̂̆͛̅͘̚̚͘͝r̶̡̢͉̤͎̲̥̮̻̟͉̩̗̠̝̖̬͈̹͓͈̱̹͖͕̩͎̉̑̋̂̀̍̇͋́̐͆̇͋́m̶̢̢̨̢̨̭̪̹͓̜̱̼̬̘͖̬̝̩̤̘̰̮͕͎͈̭͖͕͎̳͓̺̟͒͑̈́͊̓̾̆͂͂͒̕͘͜͠ͅü̵̢̢̧̢̢̞̹̼̱̲̯̟͕̞̖̞̖̪͙͓̈́̓́̈́̎̓͐̂͆̏̍̍͒̾̀͒̍̎̐̊̀͊̓̋̀̀̋͑͊͑̚͘͝͠͝͝͝ņ̴̡̢̛̛̪̺̻̺͎̪̯͎̪̦͔̱͕̱̫̬̞̦̝̃̽͊̆͌̈́͂̈́̈́̾̋̐͋̋̐͋̏͆̄̄̽͗̒͋̌͒͂͘͜͠͝͝͝͠g̸̛̰̱̣̺͇̒̈́͐̓̿͑́̂̂̔̏̈́͊̔̅̌̈́̍̿͆̄͒͑̀̊͘͘͜͝a̶̦̯̦̹̘̪̞̗̟͇̲̣̳̩̔́́͗̈́͛̀͋͛̌̉̐̾͋́̇̄̍̈́̾̏̿̐̔̔͘̚n̶̡̻͎͔̬̣̲͋̽͒̒̏͋̈́́́d̵̨̧̢̢̡̗̱̼̙͔̤̤̣͓̖̼͍̻̰̭̗̬̟̙̗̿̿̒̎̌̓̆̋̈́͂̊͊̿͊͗̐̿͜r̷̡̦̱̖͖̙̥̫͙̞̲̬̫̼̞̫̖̜̦̰̙̗̯̠̹̗̲̪̯̻̖͇͚̳̿͂͆͒̂̎̇͛͂̈̐͒̄͊͘͠͝ but some purists find that too much so I tone it down to “baddie”.
- hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish4 months
ˈdiː.mən
And don’t ever ask random people how to pronounce ‘router’.
- who@feddit.orgEnglish4 months
It’s somewhat regional. Lots of Americans pronounce the ou as in ouch, but lots of other folks pronounce it as in root (recognizing that route is its root word).
- 4 months
(recognizing that route is its root word)
You could also ask people how they pronounce route and get different answers.
- notgold@aussie.zoneEnglish4 months
I always thought the 2 pronunciation of route were different but similar things. Raut as in a set road between two large places, not specific place in a city but the city itself. Root as a path between 2 specific points, house to house.
- 4 months
Day-mon, every Linux admin I’ve worked with, old and young, pronounces it that way too, so that’s where I picked it up.
I’ve never heard of people deliberately pronouncing it like that to avoid offending Christians though, seems like an American take lol.
I thought that it was just an archaic spelling of the modern demon and an alternative pronunciation to clairify that the speaker is referring to a technical part of an OS, not making a joke about the spiritual nature of the machine lol.
It sounds cooler to say day-mon anyways IMO.
- Chakravanti@monero.townEnglish4 months
Wait til you figure out that your missing that there is no such thing as a meaningless coincidence.
