[TOGoS]

I am trying and failing to find the entry in the jargon file that says something along the lines of "if you come across a person who pronounces 'SQL' as 'squirrel', you have found a true hacker indeed". Maybe it was not the jargon file. It's been many years.

Along those same lines, I also like to pronounce "varchar" in a way[1] that is guaranteed to put a look of disgust on the face of almost everyone in the room; this is how I find my karass.

[1] if anyone replies asking for specifics because they are "genuinely curious" I will slap them. Use your imagination.

[a1369209993]

> "if you come across a person who pronounces 'SQL' as 'squirrel', you have found a true hacker indeed"

Well, I feel oddly validated, thanks. (In the sense of "squirrelly" - counterproductively idiosyncratic or disfunctional.)

> "varchar"

> < vare-care? var-car? v-archer? var-charr? varc-har

"varker" maybe?

[rustyminnow]

Go ahead and slap me I guess, cuz I must not be imaginative enough.

  vare-care?
  var-car?
  v-archer?
  var-charr?
  varc-har

I don't get it, none of those seem that bad

[shrimp_emoji]

If you pronounce it "char" (as in the word for "to storch") instead of "care", you're as bad as the people who say "jif".

[justajot]

Do you mean as awesome as the people who say jif? ;-)

[aardvark179]

It was the jargon file, but it was about SCSI, and that anybody who spelt it out was clueless.