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blendmaster
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 Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:29 pm Post subject: how do you pronounce daemon? (as in ntp daemon) |
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for no real reason. i pronounce it as dæmon (with æ dipthong).
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Demon in english
Dæmon in danish. |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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dæmon (with æ dipthong)
It's spelled with that "ae" for a reason... |
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Deemawn. That's the first option, right?
I'm not going to bitch about H-MES this time because there really aren't any other ways to pronounce Daemon. If you pronounce it some other way, j00re a st00pid h34d!@!11
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| Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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demon (as in bsd mascot)
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*ahem* The FreeBSD mascot is a daemon and I just pronounce it the same way as I would pronounce "demon", it is just an [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(mythology)]older variant[/url] of that word after all so when it's applied to a piece of software I don't see why it would be pronounced any differently than it is when applied to a daemon (as in a supernatural being).
Edit: although I probably pronounce daemon wrong 
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blendmaster
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http://www.hyperdictionary.com/search.aspx?define=daemon
i guess the computer definition is supposed to be pronounced daymon and the mythological is deemon.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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daemon -- day-mon.
Since it appears to be an english word, the "a" is a hard "a" because it's followed by an "e"... |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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I pronounce it, basically "DAY-min" If that is the pronunciation with æ, so be it. :p
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| Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Ateo wrote: | | Since it appears to be an english word, the "a" is a hard "a" because it's followed by an "e"... |
Yeppers.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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"Deemen"
The double e's are longggggggg....... 
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| "Caesar" is cee-sar, so I figured "Daemon" is dee-mon. |
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| Duty wrote: | | "Caesar" is cee-sar, so I figured "Daemon" is dee-mon. |
Actually Caesar is originally pronounced kai-sar. The æ diphtong confused the English to think the c should be pronounced like an s (as opposed to k).
If you know Spanish, you will know that c before e sounds like s and c before a sounds like k. Since æ is made of ae (in that order), the pronunciation of the c should be decided from the a, not the e.
[ Now, I know that modern consensus in Latin is that c is always a k-sound, but I trust a living language more than st00pid academics. Besides, it is known for sure that the people who actually spoke Latin didn't say c as k. ]
Here's a bonus curiosity: In Danish, Cæsar is pronounced sae-sar, but the word for emperor which is derived from Latin Cæsar is 'kejser', which is pronounced like kai-sar.
It's probably due to the same confusion as in English...
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| Cossins wrote: | | Duty wrote: | | "Caesar" is cee-sar, so I figured "Daemon" is dee-mon. |
Actually Caesar is originally pronounced kai-sar. The æ diphtong confused the English to think the c should be pronounced like an s (as opposed to k).
If you know Spanish, you will know that c before e sounds like s and c before a sounds like k. Since æ is made of ae (in that order), the pronunciation of the c should be decided from the a, not the e.
[ Now, I know that modern consensus in Latin is that c is always a k-sound, but I trust a living language more than st00pid academics. Besides, it is known for sure that the people who actually spoke Latin didn't say c as k. ]
Here's a bonus curiosity: In Danish, Cæsar is pronounced sae-sar, but the word for emperor which is derived from Latin Cæsar is 'kejser', which is pronounced like kai-sar.
It's probably due to the same confusion as in English...
- Simon |
PS: Kaiser is ``emporer'' in German.
Edit (PPS): Encyclopaedia.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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I pronouse it as either "DE MON" or "damon".... damon probably meaning daemon whatever kind of mood i'm in. heh  |
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| blendmaster wrote: | http://www.hyperdictionary.com/search.aspx?define=daemon
i guess the computer definition is supposed to be pronounced daymon and the mythological is deemon. |
That's how I've always pronounced it.
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