when talking about the "char" (as in "character") datatype in a programming language, do you pronounce it:
@Felthry “car,” like the vehicle
@gardevoir @Felthry another 'car'-sayer here too
@Felthry I guess most people just try to pronounce it as if it was its own word, but I'm not sure how it is if English is your first language
@noiob we've heard the pronunciation of it as if it were its own word from a number of native english speakers so i don't think it's that connected with whether you're a 1L or 2L or 73L english speaker (are there any 73L english speakers in the world i wonder? that would mean for one thing you know at least 73 languages which is a Lot, and on top of that for some reason you waited until the 73rd to learn english, which is a pretty major language)
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@Felthry we tend to pronounce it like "car" for reasons i can no longer explain or fathom
@patchwork two other people have said that too! it didn't occur to us
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@felixphew Pronouncing it with an /æ/ sounds weird to me! it doesn't feel possible to put an /ɹ/ after an /æ/
but that's just going to be our dialect i'm sure
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@Felthry I tend to go back and forth between those two and "car", when I don't just try to obviate the need to say it all together (e.g. calling it a "character" or maybe a "byte" if I'm using it as int8_t/uint8_t). It really is one of those things I'm never sure how to pronounce
@Felthry I initially pronounced it like "care" but then picked up the "charcoal" pronunciation from a coworker. Not sure whether it's actually easier or just easier when that's what the other person in a conversation expects, but I still use "charcoal" 10 years after leaving that job
@Felthry interestingly it's char for me like the first one, but character is second.. mostly?
Non-native English speaker ^^
we were not expecting to be in the minority on this, we pronounce it like the first syllable of "character"
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