On 9/13/2017 6:46 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
I presume that "tkinter" is intended to be pronounced
"logically":
T K inter (tee kay inter /ti keI In t%/)
This is how I've always pronounced it.
The toolkit in question is named “tk”, which I have only ever known to
be pronounced “tee kay”.
The rest of the word is an abbreviation of “interface”.
So, to me “Tkinter” is pronounced “tee kay inter”.
. But it would be faster to pronounce it
Speed at the expense of clarity is a goal difficult to justify in
programming, and is even harder to justify in human speech. So, that
basis doesn't convince me of a useful pronunciation.
I program in tkinter more or less daily and now, at least,I think it
'tee-kinter'. I believe I have said it that way also, though to a
somewhat naive listener. Now I know that some would think it strange ;-).
I said the same thing back in 2002 on this list:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-December/139508.html
Mike C. Fletcher: mostly t k inter, sometimes t kinter, accent on t.
Dennis Lee Bieber: t kinter, slurred at tick inter.
then thread veered off onto Poles and consonants.
What do haphazerdly selected public Python speakers say?
t k inter Russell Keith-Magee, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI7NYgP54sw
t k inter Jeff Armstrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isuF_bBiXs
t kinter Zach King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6aEc6Qu2vM
t'kinter 'sentdex', https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccct5D2AyNM
t k inter Bryson Tyrrell, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb1YFgHqUZ8
t k inter Derek Banas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tbWoZSi3LU
I am perhaps in a minorit
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