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[โ€“] jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can mispronounce any word you like.

[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I prefer to pronounce latex properly, just like the rubber.

[โ€“] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If by "latex" you mean \LaTeX, then that is impossible. Incidentally, it may interest you to know that the English alphabet does not map directly to phonemes or allophones. Sadly, you cannot know how a word is pronounced by looking at the letters that compose it. Isn't that wild?

[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 days ago

Nah, just LaTeX, the typesetting system. The one named entirely in characters from the English alphabet, named after the polymer emulsion.