https://piefed.zeromedia.vip/u/guynamedzero posted on Feb 18, 2026 18:01
Demon? Damon? Or something more exotic?
Demon? Damon? Or something more exotic?
Day Man
Fighter of the Night Man
Day mon
AaAaAa
Samy way as the actor, Matt.
Damon
I would pronounce it “DEEmon” but that gets some religious folks all freaked out, so I usually go with “DAYman”.
The ‘ae’ in daemon is the same as the æ in encyclopædia.
What do you want, Picard?
https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/0bb2b23a-62a2-44d6-9761-e2d401d35392.webp
ˈdiː.mən
And don’t ever ask random people how to pronounce ‘router’.
I usually go for J̵̧̢̢̢̡̩͎̙͙̹͇̞̯̯͇̞̭̯̙̻̲͖̻̗̫̙̲̪̫̥̦͇̭͇͍̤̳̫̖̪̗̈ö̸͓̱̭͔͓̼͔́̄̆̑̅͛̈̉̆̓̿̾̓̒̑͂̃̃͑̏̄̈͛̄̈̂̌̑̂̆͛̅͘̚̚͘͝r̶̡̢͉̤͎̲̥̮̻̟͉̩̗̠̝̖̬͈̹͓͈̱̹͖͕̩͎̉̑̋̂̀̍̇͋́̐͆̇͋́m̶̢̢̨̢̨̭̪̹͓̜̱̼̬̘͖̬̝̩̤̘̰̮͕͎͈̭͖͕͎̳͓̺̟͒͑̈́͊̓̾̆͂͂͒̕͘͜͠ͅü̵̢̢̧̢̢̞̹̼̱̲̯̟͕̞̖̞̖̪͙͓̈́̓́̈́̎̓͐̂͆̏̍̍͒̾̀͒̍̎̐̊̀͊̓̋̀̀̋͑͊͑̚͘͝͠͝͝͝ņ̴̡̢̛̛̪̺̻̺͎̪̯͎̪̦͔̱͕̱̫̬̞̦̝̃̽͊̆͌̈́͂̈́̈́̾̋̐͋̋̐͋̏͆̄̄̽͗̒͋̌͒͂͘͜͠͝͝͝͠g̸̛̰̱̣̺͇̒̈́͐̓̿͑́̂̂̔̏̈́͊̔̅̌̈́̍̿͆̄͒͑̀̊͘͘͜͝a̶̦̯̦̹̘̪̞̗̟͇̲̣̳̩̔́́͗̈́͛̀͋͛̌̉̐̾͋́̇̄̍̈́̾̏̿̐̔̔͘̚n̶̡̻͎͔̬̣̲͋̽͒̒̏͋̈́́́d̵̨̧̢̢̡̗̱̼̙͔̤̤̣͓̖̼͍̻̰̭̗̬̟̙̗̿̿̒̎̌̓̆̋̈́͂̊͊̿͊͗̐̿͜r̷̡̦̱̖͖̙̥̫͙̞̲̬̫̼̞̫̖̜̦̰̙̗̯̠̹̗̲̪̯̻̖͇͚̳̿͂͆͒̂̎̇͛͂̈̐͒̄͊͘͠͝ but some purists find that too much so I tone it down to “baddie”.
So, what is it? Rooter? Or rauter?
Day Mon
He’s a master of command lines and shell scripts for everyone!
How do you pronounce encyclopædia?
day mn
‘ɹaʊ.ɾɚ
Da-ymon
(The “y” is pronounced as the j in the german “ja”)
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"Why thou summoneth me?" Lol
Just kidding!
I'm Brazilian, so I pronounce Daemon in such a Brazilian (specifically the southeast, "paulista"/from state of São Paulo variation) accent:
Daah-eh-monnOr, if my IPA literacy is correct:
/dajˈmõ/The Daemon I use in my pseudonym is inspired both by the Unix daemons (because I'm a DevOps and also a Linux daily user), as well by the esoteric daemons (as in the original Greek definition of daimon, spirits, due to my belief system).
Just as it reads. You smash that E into the A’s ass. Starting the E before the A finishes.
the same as daemon
Demon, so I can kill them, spawn them, or send them signals to die!
Dämon
Same way that I say Matt Damon.
Matt Daemon
I’m sorry didn’t found better variant, but almost like this:
D ayyyyy mon
service
In case you ever wondered where it came from in computing.
Dammit! Now I have to pronounce Encyclopaedia incorrectly 😞
day-min
Daymon. Fighter of the nightmon. Champion of the sun.
When I see that spelling I just hear Ted Mosby
Demon?
Demon, because it offends purists, and FreeBSD’s mascot is a demon.
“Demon”
It was always “demon”, as in a spiritual attendant. Christian mythology has poisoned the word, and anyone who says “daymon” to not offend them is a coward.
See here:
It’s somewhat regional. Lots of Americans pronounce the ou as in ouch, but lots of other folks pronounce it as in root (recognizing that route is its base).
No, dæmon
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daemon
Rhymes
- daemon, demon
- freeman
- seaman
- Seaman (surname - see especially David Seaman)
- semen
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/i%CB%90m%C9%99n
Gesundheit
“DAH-ay-mon,” I choose you! Use your exec ~/thunder_sma.sh!
Deemon
It’s just an old spelling of demon. So that.
Calm your tits (meaning your birds), I say “daymon”, and I relish any opportunity to offend the overly devout.
My reason is simple: I learned the word by reading it and sounding it out, and that’s more badass than “haha I say demon because I’m edgy”
both honestly. I think when I see it I think damon mostly but I might say that and I might say demon.
(recognizing that route is its root word)
You could also ask people how they pronounce route and get different answers.
I say daymon not to avoid offence, but since it sounds cooler than demon.
A demon sounds like a fiend that has only been around for at most a few hundred years, but a daemon sounds like it has been around for a few thousand so it is much more dangerous.
I say at day-mon.
I thought it was a reference to Maxwell’s demon.
Daemons in computing, generally processes that run on servers to respond to users, are named for Maxwell’s demon.
Same as demon. Because my research indicates that this usage was originally a reference to Maxwell’s demon.
Indeed. Which reinforces what I wroot.
Yes the CTSS crew were reportedly thinking of Maxewell’s demon but also chose to change it to the “daemon” spelling to make it sound more like a “friendly garden spirit than a monster” and the pronounced it “deemon”.
While offending Christians is welcome in this day and age, the marked Latin and Greek history of the word, originating as “daímōn” with an ‘a’, and the fact that ‘æ’ exists, both make “dæmon” a cool enough spelling that I’m keeping it, and the fancier spelling helps keeping safe and separate from the christofascist corruption of the word for when I am more in mind of the mechanics and purposes rather than having to be a soldier in someone else’s cultural war.
It’s a rauter, from the Ínglich raut, a paþ.
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I’m wrong but in my head it’s always been Damien
Languages change over time, and we get to vote on which words we’d like changed by preferring cool ones over just “the way it has always been”
Day-mon, every Linux admin I’ve worked with pronounces it that way too, so that’s where I picked it up.
I’ve never heard of people deliberately pronouncing it like that to avoid offending Christians though, seems like an American take lol.
I thought that it was just an archaic spelling of the modern demon and an alternative pronunciation to clairify that the speaker is referring to a technical part of an OS, not making a joke about the spiritual nature of the machine lol.
It sounds cooler to say day-mon anyways IMO.
Yeah, but also sometimes people are just thick.
Can’t argue there!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel)
One of my favorite cyberpunk novels.
Wait til you figure out that your missing that there is no such thing as a meaningless coincidence.
You’re wrong. I say them both day-mon. Because they are the fucking same. That’s not a pun. It’s just one of the things they handle delivering to those who want that stuff.
Xtians are fucking evil. Evil was never and will never be real even though Daemons are. They’re imagining evil and going fucking Tenet.
Yeah. Tgat movie. That’s them. They did that. Go cry, Stan. You fucking CIA cartoon.
It’s still not and never will be real beyond their imagination.
You people use meat flapping to communicate?
I always thought the 2 pronunciation of route were different but similar things. Raut as in a set road between two large places, not specific place in a city but the city itself. Root as a path between 2 specific points, house to house.
