Totally need one of these

[hanst99]

Referring to touch and more

Since more was already explained...

http://ss64.com/bash/touch.html

[Catfish2]

Hide yo jokes, hide yo riddles, hide yo limericks
'Cos they explaining all of 'em out here.

[kaseron]

#include <barbeque>
char coal;

[rapidcoder]

Unix sex:

:{ look; gawk; find; sed; talk; grep; touch; finger; find; flex; unzip; head; tail; mount; workbone; fsck; yes; gasp; fsck; more; yes; yes; eject; umount; makeclean; zip; split; done; exit:xargs!!;)}

[LB]

@kaseron: carecoal?

[chrisname]

Why do you pronounce char the same as "care"? It's "char" as in "charred" (or "car" as in "character", because that's what it's short for).

[ResidentBiscuit]

To be fair, "character" (at least where I'm from) is pronounced care-acter. But, when I see char I pronounce it like "charred"

[chrisname]

Huh; I thought even Americans said "character" with a short A at the start, and that more-or-less everyone pronounced "char" like "charred" or the same as "car".

[ResidentBiscuit]

I've never heard anyone pronounce it like that lol. But then again, I live in central U.S. It could be different on the east coast.

[Duthomhas]

http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/char.html

I once had a conversation with a friend about how to pronounce "roof". We sounded like a couple of dogs barking down the hallway -- until we got to the library and looked it up. (You can say it either way.)

I tend to say <care> simply because it is short for <care-act-er> -- which is how most English-speaking U.S. citizens pronounce it.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/character

[LB]

You can char wood and turn it into charcoal, thus it has been charred, but the variable type "char" is short for character, which I have never heard pronounced any other way than care-actor. If you say char like charring wood, I will think you are using the verb "char", but if you say char like 'care', I will think you are using the short name of the character variable type.

[ResidentBiscuit]

But surely the context you will tell you that it is not a verb. If I walk up and say "Hey I've got this char array here, and blah blah"... I highly doubt you'll think I'm referring to a verb in that situation.

Care just sounds weird as a name for anything.

[Duthomhas]

AFAIK, most people do pronounce it as <char>.

[ne555]

Es una pena que no sepan leer.

[Duthomhas]

Pienso igualito, pero entiendo porque lo leen de <char>. Más pena que no sepan hablar.

Quizá pasen más tiempo en el patio trasero, y menos al programar.

[Cheraphy]

chrisname wrote:

Huh; I thought even Americans said "character" with a short A at the start, and that more-or-less everyone pronounced "char" like "charred" or the same as "car".

Nope, it's pronounced like care-actor out here. And I've always called it "care." Then again I pronounce int as "eye en tee" rather than "in't"

Also, fun fact, Mid Western American english is closer to an old English accent than modern British. What is commonly thought of as a british accent (a london accent, I think) only came about in the 16 or 1700s when the nobels of london began dropping the 'r' in words. That is, they became non-rhotic while the Americas remained rhotic. Interestingly enough. while non-rhotic english caught on in england and most of scotland, Ireland's english remained rhotic.

[chrisname]

English has changed so much, it's ridiculous.

Another fun fact: Back in the days of Henry VIII, there was very little standardisation of spelling, so he spelled his name HENZY VIII.
[edit] This might also be interesting: I know because I've seen actual documents (originals, not copies) signed by him, some by his son Edward and also his daughter Mary's marriage contract to Philip of Spain. My history teacher took my class to the National Archives some months back. I didn't really appreciate it at the time, but that was an amazing experience.

[Duthomhas]

I suppose that is why the Irish are so eire-rhotic.

No one noticed the joke that many people are actually foreign language speaking... so that the way that they pronounce "char" may not make much sense in English...

[TheIdeasMan]

rapidcoder wrote:

Unix sex:

:{ look; gawk; find; sed; talk; grep; touch; finger; find; flex; unzip; head; tail; mount; workbone; fsck; yes; gasp; fsck; more; yes; yes; eject; umount; makeclean; zip; split; done; exit:xargs!!;)}

Very, very good - I have been laughing about that all day !!

[4SyAqMoL]

I like Unix more now ;)