Quote :

"Intern: if the kitty is free.... what's to stop people from eating it?"

good question

2/25/2014 6:57:31 PM

"Testeses" (tests)

2/25/2014 7:12:13 PM

we have a software product called Nucleus. Dudeman calls it nuculus.

2/25/2014 7:13:58 PM

I had a supervisor once who consistently said "ideals" instead of "ideas". He also typed it out that way. "Send me your ideals on the subject"...."If you have any ideals let me know."

Guess you could call him an idealist?

2/25/2014 9:25:43 PM

One of my coworkers pronounces data "dat uh" even when saying "database". Wouldn't be so bad if he didn't say it two dozen times every day. And another coworker pronounces attribute "uh tribute"

2/25/2014 10:48:12 PM

.... What's wrong with that?

2/25/2014 10:55:47 PM

"dah-duh" and "day-tuh" is one of those words that can be pronounced two ways that I never have any type of issue with

and i personally say "AHH-truh-butes" when referring to the noun, but "uh-TRIH-bute" when using the verb

another word that doesn't bother me

2/25/2014 11:04:42 PM

I always say day-ta. Dat-uh doesn't bother me... But I will interchangeably say day-ta-base and dat-uh-base.

^im the same way with the verb/noun differentiation.

2/25/2014 11:42:20 PM

I had a guy in my database class who pronounced attribute that way, too. It took me the longest time to figure out what the hell he was saying. I corrected him on it though, because I found out English was his second language (it was hard to tell, he didn't have much of an accent), and he was appreciative. True story, bro

2/25/2014 11:50:28 PM

If you said uh-tribute in a noun context I'd look at you funny. But its totally cool as a verb.

2/25/2014 11:53:39 PM

Totally agree with uh tribute for the verb, in fact I am pretty sure that is how you're supposed to pronounce the word as a verb

Quote :

"at·trib·ute [v. uh-trib-yoot; n. a-truh-byoot]"

Maybe that's why some people pronounce it that way, I didn't think about that.

As for dah tuh, it wouldn't be that bad if this guy didn't put so much emphasis on the ah part. He says it more like dah tuh than datuh, datuh would be fine. Oh well, guess I'd better get used to it.

2/26/2014 2:06:25 PM

Does anybody ever hear people use the work mines in place of mine? As in no that is not mines I know mines is over there.

2/26/2014 6:26:28 PM

I think that's a regional thing. Like anywheres, somewheres, etc. (What region don't ask me)

2/27/2014 4:30:18 PM

It turns out that the "dah tuh" pronunciation is common in Australia and NZ, and as a British formalism (and it's closest to the original Latin, also spelled "data" and pronounced like "dah tah"): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/data#English

However, both "data" and "database" are listed as starting with our long "a" in the US and UK (although "data" has a variant in the US starting with a short "a" and that's the common pronunciation in Ireland).

Similarly, Merriam-Webster lists the forms starting with long-a, short-a, and ah (both "data" and "database"): http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/data

As for the proper singular form, "datum," Wiktionary lists only long-a and ah and regards it as a chiefly British usage; Merriam-Webster lists the same variants as for "data."

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, UK variants are long-a and ah, while US variants are short-a and long-a; this holds for "data" and "database" and even "datum."

2/27/2014 5:04:24 PM

Dah-tuh definitely sounds British, and different from Dat-uh and day-tuh

2/27/2014 5:47:17 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1tHYx_sr6o

2/27/2014 6:49:33 PM

quote of the day: she is too stupid to fabricate data.

2/27/2014 7:08:20 PM

Was that said about you?

2/27/2014 7:10:30 PM

fuck you. and no.

2/27/2014 7:11:09 PM

last week this Indian guy said "Eunuch" when he meant "unique"

laughs were had by all

2/27/2014 7:11:59 PM

^^ too bad. I like hot dumb girls.

2/27/2014 7:24:41 PM

I WANNA TALK TO SAMPSON!

Every day.

2/27/2014 10:16:41 PM