How do you pronounce 'xor'?

[ForumMaster]

k-sor. probaly most like zore.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: torpid
Before this thread if someone had said zore to me I would have looked at them like they are stupid and wondered what they were talking about. I've never heard it pronounced that way, even by foreigners who can't speak a lick of english who ask stupid questions like, "what is hard drive?" 30 seconds after the professor completes a 1 hour lecture on hard drives, or even by people who raise their hand when the professor asks, "how many characters are there in the chinese language" and answer "5". If none of those people said zore, chances are good that no one at all in the class does.

Except I've heard it pronounced 'zore' by several people in class. I think it's an acceptable way to pronounce it just because it's an easier why to say 'xor'

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
Whenever I see X at the beginning I assume its a "Z" sound. (Unless is has a - after it of course, like x-ray.)

I hate X. Mostly because at the dawn of the new millenium, X was so god damn cool.
EVERYTHING had an X in it. And of course if everybody does it, its no longer cool.
So they killed the awesomeness of X and I have no idea what will be the next big thing. Maybe Z.

X is kind of like C. Totally useless. They dont even seem to have their own sounds. They borrow sounds from all the other more useful, less-cool, letters.
C copies K and S for its sounds. We really dont even need it. We could dump its punk ass altogether and life would go on.

"MORTAL KOMBAT"
"bisentennial"

It would work.
LETS DO IT!

But what would you use for words like church and cheese, etc.?

 

[dennilfloss]

Ksor, like ksavier.

 

[shortylickens]

khurch, kheese.

 

[krunchykrome]

zor

 

[clamum]

Exclusive or.

 

[jonessoda]

Originally posted by: jjones

Originally posted by: shortylickens
Whenever I see X at the beginning I assume its a "Z" sound. (Unless is has a - after it of course, like x-ray.)

I hate X. Mostly because at the dawn of the new millenium, X was so god damn cool.
EVERYTHING had an X in it. And of course if everybody does it, its no longer cool.
So they killed the awesomeness of X and I have no idea what will be the next big thing. Maybe Z.

X is kind of like C. Totally useless. They dont even seem to have their own sounds. They borrow sounds from all the other more useful, less-cool, letters.
C copies K and S for its sounds. We really dont even need it. We could dump its punk ass altogether and life would go on.

"MORTAL KOMBAT"
"bisentennial"

It would work.
LETS DO IT!

But what would you use for words like church and cheese, etc.?

Tshurtsh, tsheez. Seriously, try saying it. It's absolutely correct.

Or we could just integrate Cyrillic characters as well as edh and thorn (or delta and theta) to cover the failures of the Latin alphabet, and simplify spelling while we're at it. Jor raiting kan luk laik dis! Wudn't dat bi awsum? D?ust ?ink hau mu? simplur it wud bi to pronauns.

 

[dighn]

ex-or, only noobs say otherwise.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: dighn
ex-or, only noobs say otherwise.

I hear ex'-or and ex-or' interchangably (emphasis on first or second syllable) when discussing algorithms (I work in data storage; RAID does a lot of XORing, so this comes up a lot). I have never heard someone pronounce it "zore". Anyone who did so would get looked at very strangely (along with anyone who called a router a "rooter").

Given the etymology of the term (it is a contraction of EXclusive OR or "exor"), to me there is no question that the right way to pronounce it is with the same sound as the beginning of "exclusive".