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Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前

Do you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?

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Do you pronounce "Data" as "Day-ta" or "Dah-ta"?

Chainweasel@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前
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  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
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    Depends on how much Star Trek we’ve been watching lately.

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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      so, always Dayta.

      • sorghum@sh.itjust.works
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        Data is a proper noun, data is not.

        https://youtu.be/WssBJeExiOM

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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      Applicable to many areas of my life

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldBanned
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    Day-ta

    • Mister Neon@lemmy.world
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      Ditto

      • avguser@lemmy.world
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        2 年前

        Dih-toe

        • meco03211@lemmy.world
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          2 年前

          Die-toe

          • lugal@lemmy.ml
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            That’s German and means “the toe”

            • meco03211@lemmy.world
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              2 年前

              Die Bart die

            • Asafum@feddit.nl
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              Die über toe!

              • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
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                You should probably see a podiatrist for that problem.

          • Jarix@lemmy.world
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            Dit toh

            • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
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          • The Pantser@lemmy.world
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            Dy-do

    • PixelTron@lemm.ee
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      This is the way

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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    Like this

    • Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I mean the man told us how he prefers it, I don’t understand why this is so hard for people

      Edit: typo

    • derf82@lemmy.world
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      One is my name. The other is not.

    • hakunawazo@lemmy.world
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      Pulaski?

  • weker01@sh.itjust.works
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    I pronounce it “data” of course.

    • Tug@lemmy.world
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      Of course! That’s the only way to say it, all others are wrong!

      • massacre@lemmy.world
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        Agreed. Does it have two Ts? Then it’s not datta which you just instinctively rest as dah-ta

  • RandomVideos@programming.dev
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    Both, randomly switching between them

    • vermyndax@lemmy.world
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      Same, and when I catch myself doing that, I wonder why I do it, then move on with life and do it again later.

  • Balthazar@lemmy.world
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    Yes.

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  • spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world
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    Dah-ta in a day-tabase.

    • Agrivar@lemmy.world
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      precisely.

  • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
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    Annoyingly I go back and forth because whichever pronunciation I’m on sounds worse than when I hear it the other way.

    • SatyrSack@feddit.org
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      I recently caught myself using both pronunciations in the same sentence.

  • nebulaone@lemmy.world
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    Both. I am german and I speak a weird amalgamation of british and american english.

    • B312@lemmy.world
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      Same minus the german part

    • macniel@feddit.org
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      Same

      • chrizzly@feddit.org
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        Yep, finding myself there, too. Mostly depends on what bit of music/show/media I have listened to/watched most recently :D

  • Reddit is better.@dormi.zone
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    Dat-uh is information, Day-tuh is a Star Trek character.

    • ripcord@lemmy.world
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      One is his name. The other is not.

  • TryingToActHuman@lemmy.world
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    Both. I feel like one of them always tends to fit the conversation better than the other, but which one that is seems to be totally random.

    • waz@lemmy.world
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      Same with Caribbean. Royal Caribbean and Pirates of the Caribbean both sound wrong if you use the alternate pronunciation.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    It depends on how many ay’s and ah’s are in my sentence. My mouth seems to natural conform to whatever has more as I speak at 9 million words per minute.

    • Semperverus@lemmy.world
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      By itself or in short sentences, I default to day-ta, but otherwise I’m exactly the same.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
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    I flip flop back and forth, I’m not totally sure if there’s a specific rhyme or reason to my choices, it may just come down to a subjective feeling about which I think sounds better in the sentence.

    My wife is a dayta analyst, and she analyzes dahta.

  • macniel@feddit.org
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    Depends. Do you mean the Android Day-Ta? Or you mean the Information Unit Datah.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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      Came here to say, one is his name, the other is not.

      • Windex007@lemmy.world
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        Still calling it “The Chat Gippity” though

  • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world
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    I use both. One feels more singular while the other feels more plural though I can’t tell you which when you ask me. We have to sneak up on it together.

    I have the same issue with “Thuh” and “Thee” for “The.”

    • Limfjorden@feddit.dk
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      “The” does have two pronunciations depending on if the word after it starts with a vovel sound or not. It’s “Thuh” for consonants and “Thee” for vowels.

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        No it’s not… it’s purely emphasis/stress via vowel reduction in English?

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English

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          deleted by creator

          • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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            Ohh nice, that table helps. I felt like something was off about people sometimes using more /ði:/ than what I was taught!

        • untorquer@lemmy.world
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          Please, i don’t want to be self aware of my accent in my first language.

          Also the two pronunciations of “the” noted above are different mouth shapes. “Uh” un butt versus “ee” in jeep.

        • Limfjorden@feddit.dk
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          I’m just going off what I learned in school in Denmark. According to lvxferre@mander.xyz it seems there is a lot more variation than I thought.

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