Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTIL the network utility "Ping" was written by a single person in an evening in 1983, and he named it after the sound a submarine sonar makesen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1634arrow-down16
arrow-up1628arrow-down1external-linkTIL the network utility "Ping" was written by a single person in an evening in 1983, and he named it after the sound a submarine sonar makesen.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square61fedilink
minus-squareMr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 months agoAt work we say “i pung it” Because pinged doesn’t sound right. And pung is more fun. Another one we haven’t named yet is when an address goes through translation. Is it NATted? “Its been NATted” Doesn’t feel right.
minus-square_g_be@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoOh so ‘NUT’ is not work appropriate language? Take it up with the author of NAT and with linguists
minus-squaresqw@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoyou’ll need to do better than this. maybe you’ll stumble on the right term in a moment of post-NAT clarity.
minus-squareMr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoIf i was from london then saying Nutted would sound like i was saying natted so that brings a whole new layer to this.
At work we say “i pung it”
Because pinged doesn’t sound right. And pung is more fun.
Another one we haven’t named yet is when an address goes through translation. Is it NATted? “Its been NATted”
Doesn’t feel right.
Oh so ‘NUT’ is not work appropriate language? Take it up with the author of NAT and with linguists
you’ll need to do better than this. maybe you’ll stumble on the right term in a moment of post-NAT clarity.
If i was from london then saying Nutted would sound like i was saying natted so that brings a whole new layer to this.