The lost letters of the English alphabet

Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet by freehunter on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:26PM (#13411832)

I almost always have to say "you ess are" because while many people I talk to confuse etc and etsy, nearly everyone tries to type "/user" when I tell them to go to "forward slash user". Even people who should know better.

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Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet by Infernal on Monday January 16, 2017 @03:36PM (#13412789)

Interesting. I wonder if the "forward slash" bit is making people start thinking literally rather than making associations to what they already know?

If I'm talking about a common system location, I don't even mention the slashes, e.g. "user bin", "etsy init dot dee", "var log httpd" and so on. If someone started off telling me to go to, say, "forward slash user forward slash library" I would just start transcribing /user/library, assuming it was something nonstandard. For /usr/lib, I'd expect to just hear "go to user lib".

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Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet by Kluny on Monday January 16, 2017 @07:44PM (#13414322)

yeah, sometimes it actually is spelled user though. Like I think Macs have /usr as well as /User dirs in the root.

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