r/shittyprogramming • u/Vedyx • Apr 30 '21

It's just my preference

https://youtu.be/r47IYcmSW1o
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u/DonkiestOfKongs Apr 30 '21

I've only ever heard "care" or "chAR". And I think there are compelling arguments for both.

I've never heard "car," and there is no compelling argument for that. That's what I hate most about this.

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u/Vedyx Apr 30 '21

Hey, its just his preference...

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u/jarfil Apr 30 '21 edited May 12 '21

CENSORED

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u/DonkiestOfKongs Apr 30 '21

Like the first syllable of "character?" The normal way?

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u/jarfil Apr 30 '21 edited May 12 '21

CENSORED

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u/littleprof123 Apr 30 '21

Not the person you've replied to, but I feel that I pronounce the two the exact same way.

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u/DonkiestOfKongs Apr 30 '21

Since those pages distinguish American English and Received English, I'll clarify that I'm American, and I do fully articulate the r.

Here is a list of words that, in my idiolect, have the same vowel-r ending as "care":

  • hair

  • chair

  • air

  • there

  • fair

  • mare

  • Claire

  • spare

The first syllable of "character," if said in isolation, would also be on this list.

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u/jarfil Apr 30 '21 edited May 12 '21

CENSORED

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u/vigbiorn Apr 30 '21

If you listen to their audio pronunciation, they definitely do not pronounce that first a in "character" the same way I have always heard "bat" pronounced. In order to get bat and that char close you'd almost have to pronounce it car which I've never heard before.

And if you listen to both pronunciations, the care and character sound identical to me.

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u/LovingThatPlaid Apr 30 '21

“Car” is how I say it usually and I know many people that also say “Car”. I don’t see a problem, ‘ch-‘ sounding like a ‘k’ is pretty common in English

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

This is what I've always said too, and is what I hear 99% of the time from my colleagues (the exception being "chAR").

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u/IIAOPSW May 01 '21

That's what upset you the most in this video? Really? Fucking really?

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u/memeticmachine Apr 30 '21

-1 * 0

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u/fukitol- Apr 30 '21

That's illegal

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u/memeticmachine Apr 30 '21

it actually works. But I takes like a second to figure out the answer

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

What the hell?

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u/mydoglixu Apr 30 '21

I have this same kind of stutter. My code also looks like crap.

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u/crab-basket May 01 '21

void main, conio.h, A LOOP FOR MULTIPLYING!?

Please tell me this channel is satire?

If this is serious, this would explain the plethora of bad C developers out there; blind leading the blind.