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    Philip Laureano
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    I once asked another 'senior' programmer to check his work again for bugs, and his reply was: "Alright, I'll check my codes." Me: It's "code", not "codes". Every time someone calls it "codes" instead of "code", it feels like I'm getting stabbed in the ear with a ice pick. Does anyone else here get the same feeling when people can't seem to say things correctly when it comes to programming?

    Do you know...LinFu?

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      I once asked another 'senior' programmer to check his work again for bugs, and his reply was: "Alright, I'll check my codes." Me: It's "code", not "codes". Every time someone calls it "codes" instead of "code", it feels like I'm getting stabbed in the ear with a ice pick. Does anyone else here get the same feeling when people can't seem to say things correctly when it comes to programming?

      Do you know...LinFu?

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      Colin Angus Mackay
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      Philip Laureano wrote:

      Every time someone calls it "codes" instead of "code", it feels like I'm getting stabbed in the ear with a ice pick. Does anyone else here get the same feeling when people can't seem to say things correctly when it comes to programming?

      Personally, I think it feels like I'm using a cheese grater on my ears.

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        I once asked another 'senior' programmer to check his work again for bugs, and his reply was: "Alright, I'll check my codes." Me: It's "code", not "codes". Every time someone calls it "codes" instead of "code", it feels like I'm getting stabbed in the ear with a ice pick. Does anyone else here get the same feeling when people can't seem to say things correctly when it comes to programming?

        Do you know...LinFu?

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        Nemanja Trifunovic
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        Philip Laureano wrote:

        Every time someone calls it "codes" instead of "code", it feels like I'm getting stabbed in the ear with a ice pick.

        How about "softwares"? ;P

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          Philip Laureano wrote:

          Every time someone calls it "codes" instead of "code", it feels like I'm getting stabbed in the ear with a ice pick.

          How about "softwares"? ;P

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          Philip Laureano
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          Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

          How about "softwares"?

          That one too. My favorite one has to be when someone pronounces C# as "C Pound"...

          Do you know...LinFu?

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            I once asked another 'senior' programmer to check his work again for bugs, and his reply was: "Alright, I'll check my codes." Me: It's "code", not "codes". Every time someone calls it "codes" instead of "code", it feels like I'm getting stabbed in the ear with a ice pick. Does anyone else here get the same feeling when people can't seem to say things correctly when it comes to programming?

            Do you know...LinFu?

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            jhwurmbach
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            Philip Laureano wrote:

            Me: It's "code", not "codes".

            You are a bit on the lazy side, when you only produced code where he managed to produce multiple codes? ;P

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            • P Philip Laureano

              Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

              How about "softwares"?

              That one too. My favorite one has to be when someone pronounces C# as "C Pound"...

              Do you know...LinFu?

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              Colin Angus Mackay
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              Philip Laureano wrote:

              My favorite one has to be when someone pronounces C# as "C Pound"...

              I've heard recruitment companies call it C-Hash. How come the # is "pound"? The pound symbol is this: £

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              • N Nemanja Trifunovic

                Philip Laureano wrote:

                Every time someone calls it "codes" instead of "code", it feels like I'm getting stabbed in the ear with a ice pick.

                How about "softwares"? ;P

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                joelgarabedian
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                +1000 Or referring to an app as "a software". Genius.

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                  Philip Laureano wrote:

                  My favorite one has to be when someone pronounces C# as "C Pound"...

                  I've heard recruitment companies call it C-Hash. How come the # is "pound"? The pound symbol is this: £

                  Upcoming FREE developer events: * Developer Day Scotland Recent blog posts: * Mixins in C#3.0 My website | Blog

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                  In the US # is sometimes used to indicate a weight pound. Lbs is more common, especially now that labels/signs are almost entirely printed instead of hand written.

                  Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull

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                    In the US # is sometimes used to indicate a weight pound. Lbs is more common, especially now that labels/signs are almost entirely printed instead of hand written.

                    Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull

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                    Ro0ke
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                    Also, we call the # symbol on the phone "pound".

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                      I once asked another 'senior' programmer to check his work again for bugs, and his reply was: "Alright, I'll check my codes." Me: It's "code", not "codes". Every time someone calls it "codes" instead of "code", it feels like I'm getting stabbed in the ear with a ice pick. Does anyone else here get the same feeling when people can't seem to say things correctly when it comes to programming?

                      Do you know...LinFu?

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                      Nagy Vilmos
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                      I get the same gut churning reaction to the Americanism of "math" instead of "maths".


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                        I once asked another 'senior' programmer to check his work again for bugs, and his reply was: "Alright, I'll check my codes." Me: It's "code", not "codes". Every time someone calls it "codes" instead of "code", it feels like I'm getting stabbed in the ear with a ice pick. Does anyone else here get the same feeling when people can't seem to say things correctly when it comes to programming?

                        Do you know...LinFu?

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                        RayGuy
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                        Anyone else object to "documentation" being referred to as "doco"? Abbreviations wouldn't normally bother me - but this really bugged me somehow!

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                          Philip Laureano wrote:

                          My favorite one has to be when someone pronounces C# as "C Pound"...

                          I've heard recruitment companies call it C-Hash. How come the # is "pound"? The pound symbol is this: £

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                          Philip Laureano
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                          Take a look[^]. :) It's a classic horror...

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                            Also, we call the # symbol on the phone "pound".

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                            Pete OHanlon
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                            In my country - we call it the hash.

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                              I once asked another 'senior' programmer to check his work again for bugs, and his reply was: "Alright, I'll check my codes." Me: It's "code", not "codes". Every time someone calls it "codes" instead of "code", it feels like I'm getting stabbed in the ear with a ice pick. Does anyone else here get the same feeling when people can't seem to say things correctly when it comes to programming?

                              Do you know...LinFu?

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                              I used to have a coworker who pronounced "registry" as "reg-istry" - the first syllable rhymed with "peg". ice pick. ear.

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                                Philip Laureano wrote:

                                My favorite one has to be when someone pronounces C# as "C Pound"...

                                I've heard recruitment companies call it C-Hash. How come the # is "pound"? The pound symbol is this: £

                                Upcoming FREE developer events: * Developer Day Scotland Recent blog posts: * Mixins in C#3.0 My website | Blog

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                                hairy_hats
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                                I've heard recruitment companies call it C-Hash.

                                In the UK, "#" is called "hash"...the "sharp" symbol used in musical notation is different from the # on a keyboard, so strictly C-Hash is correct... :)

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                                  I get the same gut churning reaction to the Americanism of "math" instead of "maths".


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                                  hairy_hats
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                                  I'm with you there!

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                                    In the US # is sometimes used to indicate a weight pound. Lbs is more common, especially now that labels/signs are almost entirely printed instead of hand written.

                                    Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull

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                                    Mario_F
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                                    Here is another one... When some error occurs there's always someone suggesting "Lets check the Lots ...." jajjaa it is LOG, not Lots...jijiji occurs when the person is a spanish speaker... :)

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                                      Here is another one... When some error occurs there's always someone suggesting "Lets check the Lots ...." jajjaa it is LOG, not Lots...jijiji occurs when the person is a spanish speaker... :)

                                      Mark Paint. Education is the ability to listen to everything without losing your temper and self-confidence.

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                                      Colin Angus Mackay
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                                      Mario_F wrote:

                                      "Lets check the Lots ...." jajjaa it is LOG, not Lots...jijiji

                                      And it is "ha ha ha" and "he he he" - this also occurs with Spanish speakers. ;)

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                                        Mario_F wrote:

                                        "Lets check the Lots ...." jajjaa it is LOG, not Lots...jijiji

                                        And it is "ha ha ha" and "he he he" - this also occurs with Spanish speakers. ;)

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                                        Mario_F
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                                        yep, you're right... but this one is a readable, doesnt affect your ears :laugh:

                                        Mark Paint. Education is the ability to listen to everything without losing your temper and self-confidence.

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                                          Also, we call the # symbol on the phone "pound".

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                                          Jasmine2501
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                                          You know, I never called that thing the 'pound' until maybe around 1994... I always called it the number sign before. The British L-shaped thing is the pound sign. The # is the 'number' sign... as in "We're #1!"

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