WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™)
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@Gąska said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
There are approximately 99 letters you could've used that wouldn't have caused confusion, including 23 lowercase Greek.
I don't know. Have you heard people trying to pronounce Greek letters?
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@PleegWat Yes, and almost everyone who isn't Greek gets them wrong. π does not rhyme with pie.
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@HardwareGeek I haven't taken greek or latin in school, but I did take a introductory class about classical cultures where they taught us the Greek letters. The pronunciation they taught us there mostly matched what was used in Dutch-language maths classes in university, and was significantly different from what I've since heard in English-language youtube stuff.
I don't know phonetic, but the pronunciation of "pi" matched what comes natural in Dutch. The closest English equivalent I can think of for the vowel is a shortened version of the one in "street".
It's even harder to come up with a good approximation of the pronunciation of zeta I was initially taught.
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@PleegWat zeta == ζητα. The vowels and digraphs η, ει, οι and at least one other one I'm blanking on at the moment all sound identical to ι (in modern Greek, not in ancient Greek); one of the hardest things in learning Greek as a beginner is hearing a word containing that sound and trying to figure out which of the 5 or 6 ways it could be spelled is the right one. In any case, "a shortened version of the one in 'street'" is about right.
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@HardwareGeek said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@PleegWat Yes, and almost everyone who isn't Greek gets them wrong. π does not rhyme with pie.
Heh. In grad school I had a professor who was a native Greek Cypriot. And, yeah, he pronounced a lot of them differently than I'd ever heard them.
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@HardwareGeek said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
zeta == ζητα. The vowels and digraphs η, ει, οι and at least one other one I'm blanking on at the moment all sound identical to ι
Me trying to learn to pronounce things based on other things I don't know how to pronounce:
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@error "ee" as in "street" is a reasonable approximation, if not quite exact.
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@HardwareGeek said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@error "ee" as in "street" is a reasonable approximation, if not quite exact.
So π is pronounced "pee"?
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@error Close enough
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@error said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@HardwareGeek said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@error "ee" as in "street" is a reasonable approximation, if not quite exact.
So π is pronounced "pee"?
Yes. I have never ever heard anything else, not even from native English speakers. Probably says something about the kind of Youtube videos I watch...
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Maybe I have the maturity of a toddler but I'm not pronouncing it as a homophone for urine, even if that is .
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@error said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Maybe I have the maturity of a toddler but I'm not pronouncing it as a homophone for urine, even if that is .
Actually, now that I think about it, it's obvious that the "pee" is a metric 𝜋 and you should keep using the imperial one.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@error said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
Maybe I have the maturity of a toddler but I'm not pronouncing it as a homophone for urine, even if that is .
Actually, now that I think about it, it's obvious that the "pee" is a metric 𝜋 and you should keep using the imperial one.
Ah yes, precisely 3, as the Bible intended.
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Also, it sounds like P, used usually for probability.
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@error said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@HardwareGeek said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@error "ee" as in "street" is a reasonable approximation, if not quite exact.
So π is pronounced "pee"?
Urine trouble if you say it any other way.
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@HardwareGeek said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@PleegWat Yes, and almost everyone who isn't Greek gets them wrong. π does not rhyme with pie.
I guess math teachers preferred this pun over the other possible one.
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@dkf said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@error said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@HardwareGeek said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@error "ee" as in "street" is a reasonable approximation, if not quite exact.
So π is pronounced "pee"?
Urine trouble if you say it any other way.
Good thing Kant wasn't a mathematician.
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@Gąska said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@HardwareGeek said in WRITING TESTS IS NOT TDD!!!!!!!!!! (Re: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™):
@PleegWat Yes, and almost everyone who isn't Greek gets them wrong. π does not rhyme with pie.
I guess math teachers preferred this pun over the other possible one.
Hmm, actually, it makes sense that π is used to compute circumference (and volume) of a pie. Or a πzza