Neil Batchelor
🆎If SQL is pronounced "sequel" then surely DNS is pronounced "Dennis"?
Greem (Graeme. Not Graham!)@bloor "Denice", surely?
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Jonathan Bennett
DJ RNDM
Sam Clemente
The cat who walks thru walls@countablenewt I will always treasure the memory of a cow-orker who once pronounced SQL*Plus as "squeal! splat! plus!" (I am well aware he was not the only one) @greem @bloor
Will 
@mrrmot @countablenewt @greem @bloor If you're like me and came from a Microsoft software development background, you might wonder about the proliferations of "sharps". The world replied "Those are hashtags!"
Enola Knezevic@AncTreat5358 @mrrmot @countablenewt @greem @bloor Used for hashtags but on their own they are just hashes. (Sharp in music is a different sign.)
@rhelune Thank you.
Just to be clear, my post was referring to the programming languages C# and F# (pronounced C-sharp and F-sharp). I believe these are rendered as pound signs instead of the musical shape.
@AncTreat5358 I know, that's Microsoft's fault. Just like calling it "hashtag" is Twitter's. Language evolves, to "decimate" now means to destroy way more than 10%, and "literally" now means "figuratively".
@rhelune @AncTreat5358 "Awesome" can mean "cool" or "Terrifying"
"Cleave" can mean "Force apart" or "Force together"
English isn't hard...
Mike Torr@rhelune @AncTreat5358 IMO "literally" STILL does not mean "figuratively". It does, however, IMPLY "figuratively", given the context of hyperbole, which is a very common trait in the vernacular. However, persuading the average person to care about any of that is figuratively impossible.
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Microsoft is to blame for so many helpdesk calls including the question "is that a forward slash or a backslash?"
Microsoft is to blame for so many helpdesk calls including the question "is that a forward slash or a backslash?"
Amin, minor deity of the legume realmYou mean C-octothorpe and F-octothorpe?
I'll start by getting Big Music Notation to send them cease-and-desist notifications for the "sharp" terminology.
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Siguza@countablenewt (one of the database profs I had unironically pronounced "SQL query" as "seagull curry". It became a meme among CS students.)
Gary 
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Tim 🛥️🌈
Josua Batubara
Iván Sánchez Ortega@bloor [Insert "Dennis the Menace" joke here]
jtonline@IvanSanchez @bloor definitely a menace!
Ian Campbell 🏴@IvanSanchez @bloor consider it inserted ;)
Ian Campbell 🏴 (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image @[email protected] leading to one of my favorite conference swag shirts my employer has ever made.
Eli the BeardedI have seen a "DNS the Menace" tee shirt
Matt Hall
Shawn Webb@bloor Our very own @jimsalter would likely remind you it's pronounced "dee niss".
Corey Snipes 🌱
Jim Salter
Mans R
Owl Eyes
Peter Drake
Susi
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Ken Butler
Colin Beveridge
Icewind
fraggle
Curious@robin @bloor did a short stint to cover when a colleague had an accident. New office install 80% done. Under trained and out of my depth and lacking expertise, but was least worst option at the time (and a loooong time ago ie multiple IDNS lines internet days)
From that experience the next time I ask Dennis nicely and they don't respond I'm for dragging Dennis into the underground carpark and f'ning them up good. Just saying.
#what-grudge?
From that experience the next time I ask Dennis nicely and they don't respond I'm for dragging Dennis into the underground carpark and f'ning them up good. Just saying.
#what-grudge?
John Maxwell@bloor That would make DNS vulnerabilities Dennis Menaces?
Neil Brown
Jon Roach
Helium
Guillaume Ross