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I understand that etymologically, it makes perfect sense to pronounce daemon the same as demon because it’s the same word. But I’ll never stop pronouncing it day- instead of dee-, as if it’s a Ferengi captain.

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Is that because you have a daemon in your brain, swapping neurons to force you to pronounce it wrong?

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More likely a DaiMon using a thought maker.

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I pronounce it like the German word for demon, Dämon [ˈdeːmɔn] 🔊 because daemon is how Germans would write the word in lowercase ASCII.

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I pronounce it da-eh-mon in my head, it sounds more old-timey than “dee-mon”.

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How do you pronounce denut?

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Demon != Daemon

It took me way too long to learn this, please don’t confuse me.

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Liar. Daemon = Demon. There’s lottle red demons in your PC doing stuff

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You’re thinking of Gremlins!

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This is a comment, identifiable by the text and whatnot.

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Why should I?

Please write a 250-or-more word essay explaining 3 reasons why I should.

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Any background process, routine, or program contributes to the complexity of the overall system, which does indeed contribute to ruin as entropy gradually builds and collapse/death/crashing becomes inevitable.

Which is to say, I agree with these definitions.

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