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[โ€“] vikingtons@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

my engineering friends have told me it's pronounced latec. can't tell if trolling though ๐Ÿง

[โ€“] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or Latech as the 'X' is suppsedly a greek 'chi'.

[โ€“] vikingtons@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

This makes sense and is probably what they meant

[โ€“] jerkface@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, no one nerdy enough to bring up LaTeX to a girl in a record store would mispronounce it. This is shabby geeksploitation on par with Big Bang Theory!!!

[โ€“] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Latek, but the last letter is written in greek