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There's a linux file called fstab which is often pronounced f-s-tab because it's a table of file systems. It was somewhat surprising to hear Dave Plummer pronounce it as "f-stab", as in stabbing someone...
"F-stab" is just more fun to say.
It'll forever be F-stab in my head
I was a non violent youth when I first saw an fstab, perhaps that got me thinking "F S tab"
f-s-tab is feeble. Unsatisfactory. Bureaucratic.
f-stab is jocose. Nonchalant. Sharp.
Is that pronounced as gokoze?
Whereas fsck, short for "file system check", should be pronounced "fisk" when someone in a suit is around, otherwise it's "fuck".
It's ef sock in my head
it kinda ends up as "fsuck" for me, which is apt-get when it doesn't magically fix all my filesystem issues
f*ck. You can even occasionally get away with spelling it like this
With the issues i had in the past with fstab, the desire to stab someone was certainly provoked.
N-jinks is silly, f-stab is cool.
Insert dank Winnie the Pooh meme here for F-STAB
That's... Unfortunate.