Demon? Damon? Or something more exotic?

    • spartanatreyu@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      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.

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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.

    • BetterDev@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      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”

    • Chakravanti@monero.townEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • Chakravanti@monero.townEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Wait til you figure out that your missing that there is no such thing as a meaningless coincidence.

  • Dæmon S.@calckey.world
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    5 months ago

    @guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip @linux@programming.dev

    “Why thou summoneth me?” Lol
    Just kidding!

    I’m Brazilian, so I pronounce Daemon in such a Brazilian (specifically the southeast, “paulista”/from state of São Paulo variation) accent:

    Daah-eh-monn

    Or, if my IPA literacy is correct:

    /dajˈmõ/

    The Daemon I use in my pseudonym is inspired both by the Unix daemons (because I’m a DevOps and also a Linux daily user), as well by the esoteric daemons (as in the original Greek definition of daimon, spirits, due to my belief system).