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13 November 2012

I am the sun, I am the air I always liked this line because I thought the idea was to play on homonyms, but then I also interpreted that one line in the chorus as "I go about things my own way" for decades. Well, actually, I still do.

Apropos of nothing, Buffy in limerick form.
Just throwing this in as another language use thing: I've seen the use of "sudo" for "pseudo" and i don't care if this is some new texting convention bullshit: this will not do.
posted by ethylene 13 November | 17:41
I love those book covers. The lyrics to "How soon is now?" are some of my all time favorites.

As for the use of the word 'sudo', I have only seen that as a reference to sudoku. If I saw someone write 'sudo' when they meant 'pseudo', I may never talk to them again.
posted by msali 13 November | 18:06
Blame xkcd (as you can for so many things). "Sudo" is a command found in "Unix-like" operating systems to allow a lower-level user to execute higher-level commands. Which I knew nothing about until I saw this:
≡ Click to see image ≡

That said, I started to think of "Sudoku" as "I ORDER YOU TO KU!"

But seriously, I think the origin of Sudo is to make a regular user into a "pseudo-admin". I see what they did there. So blame Unix.
posted by oneswellfoop 13 November | 18:39
Nope, I'm pretty sure they meant "pseudo" from the usage and it's just another case of someone using a word they have heard and never seen. The last time I saw this was on an askme comment recently and there is no way the person knew anything about sudo.

I think the reason this bugs me more than when someone mispronounces a word they've read but never heard is that there is evidence that person actually reads.

I've seen worse misspellings of the same nature that stuck with me for a while, this one is just fresher. OKC yields some choice ones. I'll stick them here if they come to mind.
posted by ethylene 13 November | 18:51
Sorry. Image fail. The cartoon in question is here
posted by oneswellfoop 13 November | 19:05
I think the origin of Sudo is to make a regular user into a "pseudo-admin".

Before there was sudo, there was a unix command "su" to elevate your session to super-user (administrator) status. sudo is a sort of one-off version of su, for "do"ing a single command. At least that's the way I've always thought of it.
posted by DarkForest 13 November | 20:18
su actually stands for switch user, so "switch user to this one and do this." sudo. You can su or sudo to a non-admin user.
posted by cjorgensen 13 November | 20:40
Interesting! I've learned something new today, and hence will sleep better tonight for it.
posted by msali 13 November | 22:50
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