On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Craig Falconer wrote:
fsck fissik/eff ess check/eff sik
I dare say all of these things have interest and different
connotations in different languages.
All unixy Afrikaners I knew pronounced "fsck" as "Voertsek" ("V"
having a sort of "F" sound in that language.)
It is an insulting term only appropriate for telling a dog to "get
lost".
When used on humans it's liable to provoke an instant fight.
A useful word, hard for native English speakers to pronounce, but
a grreat one to shout in anger.
"Your disk has been not been cleanly unmounted...(and the system is
going to whirr and click for the next fifteen minutes whilst inanely
insisting you sit there all the time typing y y y y y y)"
AG VVOEERRRTSEK!
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