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Alex Eisenhut:
I pronounce it "74LS86".
Bassman59:

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--- Quote from: TimFox on March 02, 2021, 10:05:07 pm ---In the phrase "XOR gate", this can be parsed as "XOR" (adjective) modifying "gate" (noun).  Of course, this is short for "exclusive-or gate".
To be pedantic, an acronym is an abbreviation that can be pronounced as a word (laser, NASA, snafu, etc.).  Not all abbreviations can be pronounced easily, and are usually pronounced as their constituent letters or letter-combinations (such as "ex or".

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Oh, don't get me started on the BBC and their insanity of turning common abbreviations that are pronounced as words into mixed case. e.g., NASA -> Nasa, NATO -> Nato. And using phrases such as "Brazil covid", "Japan asteroid probe", "England man" instead of "Brazilian covid", "Japanese asteroid probe", "English man".

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And their silly demand that the capital of China be pronounced "bay-zhing" instead of the proper "bay-jing." I mean, we don't spell it "Beixing."
Bassman59:

--- Quote from: harerod on March 02, 2021, 08:34:05 pm ---Quote from: Bassman59 on Today at 08:42:19 pm
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And I live in Tuxon.

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German native speaker here. You pronounse zat
[tʌksˈɔn], right? :-DD

The letter X may be pronounced in three ways in the English language: [gs], [ks] and even [z]. So, a person who doesn't know the origin "exclusive or" might settle on [z], as in xylophone.
So - who wants to say [ˈɪksˈoɾ]?  ;)
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In English it's pronounced "Too-Sawn." It's easy to spot the telemarketer from overseas because they always say, "tuck-son." Our airport code is TUS, which just emphasizes the correct pronunciation.

The city name originates from the Tohono O'odham (one of the local indigenous tribes) word for "spring at the base of the black mountain."

As an aside, I took two years of German in high school. One thing that stuck with me (other than the language's propensity for concatenating words to make even longer words) is a pronunciation rule: when you see two vowels in series, you pronounce the combination as the long second vowel. A word like "piece" is pronounced "peece." Of course that rule got ported to English which uses it for words of Germanic origin, but other words fail: "peace" is also pronounced "peece" and not "payce."

So as a first-order pronunciation rule it's good.
Bassman59:

--- Quote from: wally2q on March 02, 2021, 10:00:26 pm ---Funny....

First of all, XOR is not a word by itself like Xerox or Xylophone.

XOR is an acronym or "label" depicting a logic function..... even the word OR in this context is not just a plain english word.  It is a label for another logic function.
Since it's not a word, you pronounce it in pieces that make up the acronym.

Just like the acronym SOP is not pronounced "sohp".. but rather S-Oh-P.  This is pronounced ecks-OR
There are many other symbols that are pronounced differently... some aren't even in the english dictionary.  The capital omega greek letter is pronounced "Ohm(s)".  Or greek capital Sigma is not a "sideways-M"... it's "Sum"  How da heck do you get Ohm, or Sum from a squiggly symbol?... it's a symbol.
Another example: @ = "at" - from shorthand...
There are many other acronyms and symbols.  How about Xtal... is it eckstal?... nope... it's crystal... how about  PNP... try to pronounce that like it's a normal word... LMAO!

So, OR, or XOR are also not normal english words...

And you pronounce it how it's supposed to be pronounced - and not like it's some sort of "english word"


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"XOR" is an example of a neologism, which is a fancy term for "a word somebody made up."

It's an acronym, which is a bunch of letters which you pronounce as a word, such as laser. On the other hand, a bunch of letters that you sound out when you say it, like LCD, is an initialism.

Is LED an initialism or an acronym? Depends on whether you sound it out or pronounce it like a word! I've heard both. I prefer the initialism.

Also "LCD Display" is redundant, but LED Display is not.
JohnnyMalaria:

--- Quote from: Bassman59 on March 05, 2021, 11:53:03 pm ---And their silly demand that the capital of China be pronounced "bay-zhing" instead of the proper "bay-jing." I mean, we don't spell it "Beixing."

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The Chinese don't spell it any of those ways.

北京市


Unfortunately, my forebears never could be bothered to learn how to pronounce places correctly as they stomped all over the planet.
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