Poll on pronouncing URLs

[pne]

[Poll #423892]

Comments

[timwi.livejournal.com]

I've thought about this some more, and I've come to realise that the more recently I first encountered something, the less likely I am to have a pronunciation for it at all. In Perl, there are loads of things (like "->" or "=>" or "::" or "$_" etc.) for which I have never thought up a pronunciation. I guess this means that I think differently (more abstractly?) now than I did when I was young.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Good point.

I also realised at one point that I don't have a name for $_ in Perl; I "read" it when I'm reading someone else's code (e.g. to type it in somewhere else) but I don't have a vocalisation for it.

[diffrentcolours]

$_ tends to translate as "thing" in my brane.

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

I find this too - I see the signs, but don't sound them in my brain - they're just things that don't have names. Well, I suppose they have names (such as "dollar underscore", but I don't use them, they're just stored as images instead of words.