Porridge Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 🤯 what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 No? I'm so confused. LOL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 I pronounce it as lay-tax when it comes to allergies. https://www.bates.edu/mathematics/resources/what-is-latex/#:~:text=“Lamport [LaTeX's creator] never,see the rules for TeX). “ Pronouncing “LaTeX”: fun facts! The pronunciation of “LaTeX” is more controversial than you might think. We found a whole web page of TeX Frequently Asked Questions. Their comments are: “Lamport [LaTeX’s creator] never recommended how one should pronounce LaTeX, but a lot of people pronounce it ‘Lay TeX’ or perhaps ‘Lah TeX’ (with TeX pronounced as the program itself; see the rules for TeX). It is definitely not to be pronounced in the same way as the rubber-tree gum.” (From The Rules for TeX😞 “The ‘X’ stands for the lower case Greek letter Chi (the upper-case Greek letter doesn’t look in the least like a letter “X”) and is pronounced by English-speakers either a bit like the ‘ch’ in the Scots word ‘loch’ ([x] in the IPA) or like ‘k’. It definitely is not pronounced ‘ks’.” ” 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 When I was learning LaTeX in the 1990s, I went to a bookstore to see if I could find a book to use for reference. The bookstore employee got irked about the pronunciation vs spelling thing when I was trying to explain what I was looking for so that he could check their computer catalog. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 Between that and the pronunciation of Linex, the phonics teacher inside me is feeling salty. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 @EKS very short video on Linux pronunciation 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted March 25 Share Posted March 25 I remember the math majors calling it that when I was in grad school, back in the early 1990's. IIRC, it was also written as La (Greek characters)Tau epsilon Chi, not Latex. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porridge Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 4 hours ago, Arcadia said: @EKS very short video on Linux pronunciation At least I’ve been pronouncing Linux correctly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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