how do you pronounce 'tuple'?
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From: Tim Peters on 14 Feb 2006 10:40 [nnorwitz(a)gmail.com] > ... > I work with Guido now and I'm conflicted. I'm still conditioned to say > tuhple. Whenever he says toople, I just get a smile on my face. I > think most of the PythonLabs guys pronounce it toople. "tuhple" is a girly-man affectation. That's why Guido and I both say the manly "toople". Jeremy's still a baby, so he says "tuhple", and for the same reasons other adolescent males pierce their nipples. Barry sucks up to whoever he's talking with at the moment. Fred is a doc guy, so nobody remembers what he says ;-) the-acid-test-is-whether-you-say-"xor"-with-one-syllable-or-three-ly y'rs - tim
From: Rocco Moretti on 14 Feb 2006 10:16 Erik Max Francis wrote: > If a 4-tuple is a quadruple, a 3-tuple is a triple, a > 2-tuple is an pair, then I guess a 1-tuple would be a single. Granted > that's not nearly as gruesome enough a name to go with the special > lopsided Pythonic creature mentioned above. I suggest we name it a > hurgledink. +1 QOTW
From: Roy Smith on 14 Feb 2006 10:48 Tim Peters <tim.peters(a)gmail.com> wrote: > the-acid-test-is-whether-you-say-"xor"-with-one-syllable-or-three-ly y'rs I pronounce it with two.
From: John Salerno on 14 Feb 2006 11:19 Tim Peters wrote: > "tuhple" is a girly-man affectation. That's why Guido and I both say > the manly "toople". Heh heh. Actually, 'toople' sounds like a noun to me, and 'tuple' sounds like a verb, so I prefer 'toople' anyway.
From: John Salerno on 14 Feb 2006 11:21
::snip a thousand responses:: Well, I'm certainly glad I brought it up. :) |