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So I had a friend over dropping off a free old PC for me... had it up and running BOINC in no time.
She says, what's this boink program about? That is the first time I have heard it called BOINK... lol so she says she has a dirty mind, blah blah blah.. but I googled it and some people pronounce it BO INC and some pronounce it BOINK like a pig going OINK just with a B.
So, almost 2 decades of doing this distributed computing stuff and I didn't know of the two pronunciations.
How do the member's here pronounce it? Are our computers boinking away or it it running BO INC projects? :) |
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my computer is crunching workunits - so the question of pronunciation disapear ;-)
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wiki says: pronounced /bɔɪŋk/ – rhymes with "oink"
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Never heard it pronounced with two syllables.
It's always been "boinc", rhyming with the sound pigs make.
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I'm a boinker here. I'm sure there are many other words I mispronounce in the computing scope. |
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wow everyone says boink. Up until now I have always called it bo-inc. Wow.
Boincing away :) lol |
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I used to call it Bon-ic when I first started using it but ever since I learned it was really said boink like a pig I've said it like that. |
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Boinker here.
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wow everyone says boink. Up until now I have always called it bo-inc. Wow.
Boincing away :) lol
It is BOINK - plain and simple that´s it - however you made me curious, how did you end up with bo-inc as the correct way to pronounce BOINC? :) |
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Myself, I never thought of pronouncing it it with only 1 syllable. It looks like "going", which I pronounce with 2 syllables.
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You could end all debate and simply call it Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing.
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BOIfNC? |
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You could end all debate and simply call it Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing.
Ber-Key-Lee ?
Berk-Elee ?
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BOIfNC?
Sorry Mack but that just looks wrong :) |
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You could end all debate and simply call it Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing.
Ber-Key-Lee ?
Berk-Elee ?
Berkeh-Lee ?
Nah. We American's are fans of the silent e, and we like to put it where ever we want.
BURK-lee
(could be BERK.... hard to differentiate the two to me.)
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wow everyone says boink. Up until now I have always called it bo-inc. Wow.
Boincing away :) lol
It is BOINK - plain and simple that´s it - however you made me curious, how did you end up with bo-inc as the correct way to pronounce BOINC? :)
It was the first thing I thought of. boe inc. Seemed like a neutral way to pronounce it. I was never much of an acronym pronouncer. It really just never occurred to me it would be different until I heard someone pronounce it that way. Apparently many I have texted about also always read it as boink.
Live and learn.
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BOINC rhymes with oink.
But it is not a pig. With reference to the late project orbit@home (which looked for dangerous asteroids that might collide with the Earth) it is the sound such an asteroid would make on landing.
The Boink logo is the graphic of such an asteroid falling to the ocean.
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You could end all debate and simply call it Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing.
Ber-Key-Lee ?
Berk-Elee ?
Berkeh-Lee ?
Nah. We American's are fans of the silent e, and we like to put it where ever we want.
BURK-lee
(could be BERK.... hard to differentiate the two to me.)
Brits pronounce Berkley as BARK-lee, as in the song "A nightingdale sang in Berkley Square"
Educated Brits know to pronounce Berkeley as in an American place the American way, and keep the Brit pronunciation for British place names (like Berkley Square).
Americans visiting the UK get laughed at when the do not do the reverse...
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9831*21441403+1 is a quadhectokilo prime prime, ie >400,000 digits ;)
252031090528237591 + 65521*149*23*19*17*13*11*7*5*3*2*n is prime for every n in { 0..20 } (an arithemtic progression of 21 primes) |
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