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I say at day-mon.
Day mon
Daymon. Fighter of the nightmon. Champion of the sun.
What do you want, Picard?
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Same as demon. Because my research indicates that this usage was originally a reference to Maxwell's demon.
Day Man
Fighter of the Night Man
He's a master of command lines and shell scripts for everyone!
AaAaAa
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.
"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".
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.
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.
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"
both honestly. I think when I see it I think damon mostly but I might say that and I might say demon.
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?
Just as it reads. You smash that E into the A's ass. Starting the E before the A finishes.
When I see that spelling I just hear Ted Mosby
D ayyyyy mon
Samy way as the actor, Matt.
Demon, because it offends purists, and FreeBSD's mascot is a demon.
I usually go for J̵̧̢̢̢̡̩͎̙͙̹͇̞̯̯͇̞̭̯̙̻̲͖̻̗̫̙̲̪̫̥̦͇̭͇͍̤̳̫̖̪̗̈ö̸͓̱̭͔͓̼͔́̄̆̑̅͛̈̉̆̓̿̾̓̒̑͂̃̃͑̏̄̈͛̄̈̂̌̑̂̆͛̅͘̚̚͘͝r̶̡̢͉̤͎̲̥̮̻̟͉̩̗̠̝̖̬͈̹͓͈̱̹͖͕̩͎̉̑̋̂̀̍̇͋́̐͆̇͋́m̶̢̢̨̢̨̭̪̹͓̜̱̼̬̘͖̬̝̩̤̘̰̮͕͎͈̭͖͕͎̳͓̺̟͒͑̈́͊̓̾̆͂͂͒̕͘͜͠ͅü̵̢̢̧̢̢̞̹̼̱̲̯̟͕̞̖̞̖̪͙͓̈́̓́̈́̎̓͐̂͆̏̍̍͒̾̀͒̍̎̐̊̀͊̓̋̀̀̋͑͊͑̚͘͝͠͝͝͝ņ̴̡̢̛̛̪̺̻̺͎̪̯͎̪̦͔̱͕̱̫̬̞̦̝̃̽͊̆͌̈́͂̈́̈́̾̋̐͋̋̐͋̏͆̄̄̽͗̒͋̌͒͂͘͜͠͝͝͝͠g̸̛̰̱̣̺͇̒̈́͐̓̿͑́̂̂̔̏̈́͊̔̅̌̈́̍̿͆̄͒͑̀̊͘͘͜͝a̶̦̯̦̹̘̪̞̗̟͇̲̣̳̩̔́́͗̈́͛̀͋͛̌̉̐̾͋́̇̄̍̈́̾̏̿̐̔̔͘̚n̶̡̻͎͔̬̣̲͋̽͒̒̏͋̈́́́d̵̨̧̢̢̡̗̱̼̙͔̤̤̣͓̖̼͍̻̰̭̗̬̟̙̗̿̿̒̎̌̓̆̋̈́͂̊͊̿͊͗̐̿͜r̷̡̦̱̖͖̙̥̫͙̞̲̬̫̼̞̫̖̜̦̰̙̗̯̠̹̗̲̪̯̻̖͇͚̳̿͂͆͒̂̎̇͛͂̈̐͒̄͊͘͠͝ but some purists find that too much so I tone it down to “baddie”.
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Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈdiː.mən/
- Rhymes: -iːmən
- Hyphenation: dae‧mon
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daemon
Rhymes
- daemon, demon
- freeman
- seaman
- Seaman (surname - see especially David Seaman)
- semen
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/i%CB%90m%C9%99n
ˈdiː.mən
And don't ever ask random people how to pronounce 'router'.
So, what is it? Rooter? Or rauter?
It's a rauter, from the Ínglich raut, a paþ.
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'ɹaʊ.ɾɚ
In case you ever wondered where it came from in computing.
I thought it was a reference to Maxwell's demon.
Daemons in computing, generally processes that run on servers to respond to users, are named for Maxwell's demon.
Yes the CTSS crew were reportedly thinking of Maxewell's demon but also chose to change it to the "daemon" spelling to make it sound more like a "friendly garden spirit than a monster" and the pronounced it "deemon".
day-min
I would pronounce it "DEEmon" but that gets some religious folks all freaked out, so I usually go with "DAYman".
"DAH-ay-mon," I choose you! Use your exec ~/thunder_sma.sh!
Demon, so I can kill them, spawn them, or send them signals to die!
day mn
Dämon
@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).
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