Demon? Damon? Or something more exotic?
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You people use meat flapping to communicate?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel)
One of my favorite cyberpunk novels.
Day-mon, every Linux admin I’ve worked with, old and young, pronounces it that way too, so that’s where I picked it up.
I’ve never heard of people deliberately pronouncing it like that to avoid offending Christians though, seems like an American take lol.
I thought that it was just an archaic spelling of the modern demon and an alternative pronunciation to clairify that the speaker is referring to a technical part of an OS, not making a joke about the spiritual nature of the machine lol.
It sounds cooler to say day-mon anyways IMO.
Wait til you figure out that your missing that there is no such thing as a meaningless coincidence.
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Day mon
Daymon. Fighter of the nightmon. Champion of the sun.
What do you want, Picard?
Gesundheit
I say at day-mon.
Same as demon. Because my research indicates that this usage was originally a reference to Maxwell’s demon.
“Demon”
It was always “demon” (spelled daemon or dæmon), as in a spiritual attendant. Christian mythology has poisoned the word, and anyone who says “daymon” to not offend them is a coward.
See here:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demon
Edit: When I say it was always pronounced “demon”, I mean the nerds who started calling a small background program daemon pronounced it “demon”.
You’re wrong. I say them both day-mon. Because they are the fucking same. That’s not a pun. It’s just one of the things they handle delivering to those who want that stuff.
Xtians are fucking evil. Evil was never and will never be real even though Daemons are. They’re imagining evil and going fucking Tenet.
Yeah. Tgat movie. That’s them. They did that. Go cry, Stan. You fucking CIA cartoon.
It’s still not and never will be real beyond their imagination.
While offending Christians is welcome in this day and age, the marked Latin and Greek history of the word, originating as “daímōn” with an ‘a’, and the fact that ‘æ’ exists, both make “dæmon” a cool enough spelling that I’m keeping it, and the fancier spelling helps keeping safe and separate from the christofascist corruption of the word for when I am more in mind of the mechanics and purposes rather than having to be a soldier in someone else’s cultural war.
Calm your tits (meaning your birds), I say “daymon”, and I relish any opportunity to offend the overly devout.
My reason is simple: I learned the word by reading it and sounding it out, and that’s more badass than “haha I say demon because I’m edgy”
I say daymon not to avoid offence, but since it sounds cooler than demon.
A demon sounds like a fiend that has only been around for at most a few hundred years, but a daemon sounds like it has been around for a few thousand so it is much more dangerous.
Day Man
Fighter of the Night Man
He’s a master of command lines and shell scripts for everyone!
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It’s just an old spelling of demon. So that.
Languages change over time, and we get to vote on which words we’d like changed by preferring cool ones over just “the way it has always been”
Yeah, but also sometimes people are just thick.
Can’t argue there!
Same way that I say Matt Damon.
Matt Daemon
The ‘ae’ in daemon is the same as the æ in encyclopædia.
How do you pronounce encyclopædia?
the same as daemon
Demon?
No, dæmon
Deemon
Just as it reads. You smash that E into the A’s ass. Starting the E before the A finishes.
Dammit! Now I have to pronounce Encyclopaedia incorrectly 😞
When I see that spelling I just hear Ted Mosby
I’m wrong but in my head it’s always been Damien
both honestly. I think when I see it I think damon mostly but I might say that and I might say demon.
