Customize Python dependency resolution with machine learning

Re:Customize Python dependency resolution with machine learning by dgan on Thursday November 25, 2021 @02:20PM (#29344132)

Hm bike shedding, but "thoth" is a horrible name for anyone who isn't a proficient English speaker. I honestly can't pronounce it

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Re:Customize Python dependency resolution with machine learning by geofft on Thursday November 25, 2021 @02:31PM (#29344225)

It's the English spelling of the Greek name for an Egyptian god: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoth

The actual Egyptian pronunciation, as best as we can reconstruct it, uses sounds that didn't exist in either ancient Greek or even Coptic, and don't quite exist in modern English either. I think you'd be entirely justified using another sound if your language doesn't have English "th".

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Re:Customize Python dependency resolution with machine learning by kortex on Thursday November 25, 2021 @04:53PM (#29345326)

Thoth, /θoƱθ/, rhymes with oath. Not sure if /oƱ/ renders here, it's the near-close back rounded vowel or "horseshoe".

Normally yes, /θ/, the dental fricative (commonly "th" in English) is uncommon as far as language sounds goes, and particularly tricky to voice if it's not in phonemic inventory.

But in this case, /toet/ or /toƱt/, "tote", like the container, rhymes with goat, is also an acceptable pronunciation.

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Re:Customize Python dependency resolution with machine learning by jiggunjer on Thursday November 25, 2021 @11:07PM (#29347398)

I always pronounced it rhyming with cloth.

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Re:Customize Python dependency resolution with machine learning by marginalia_nu on Thursday November 25, 2021 @02:31PM (#29344224)

Thoth is the name of an Egyptian god, not really an English word.

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Re:Customize Python dependency resolution with machine learning by danudey on Thursday November 25, 2021 @06:28PM (#29346008)

So it's a horrible name for anyone who isn't a proficient Ancient Egyptian speaker.

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Re:Customize Python dependency resolution with machine learning by marginalia_nu on Thursday November 25, 2021 @08:30PM (#29346730)

I guess we should have them write it on a stele next to its greek equivalent.

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