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Re:Software Foundations by Benjamin Pierce et al. by javajosh on Sunday December 13, 2015 @05:51PM (#10728319)
Uh, how do you pronounce Coq?
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Re:Software Foundations by Benjamin Pierce et al. by tel on Sunday December 13, 2015 @09:04PM (#10728995)
As is traditional:

You pronounce it with an understanding of how difficult it must be to speak French and have most of the CS world talk about bit twiddling.

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Re:Software Foundations by Benjamin Pierce et al. by pron on Monday December 14, 2015 @03:24AM (#10729951)
:)
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Re:Software Foundations by Benjamin Pierce et al. by cmrx64 on Sunday December 13, 2015 @05:54PM (#10728329)
https://translate.google.com/#fr/en/coq, click "listen". Or, in French IPA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_French), kɔk (roughly transcribed to English, "couk")

But, everyone I know (including me) who I've heard pronunce it just pronunces it "cock".

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