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Re: How do I pronounce "blob"?

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Yi, EungJun <semtlenori@gmail.com>
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Sep 15, 2012, 17:00 UTC
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Thanks for your help, Jan!
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
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> On Saturday 2012-09-15 15:24, Yi, EungJun wrote:
>
>>"bee-lob" or "bla:b"?
>
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blob
>
> BLOB as a Binary Large OBject reeks of a retronym.
>
>>I guess "bee-lob" is correct if it means binary large object. But I'm
>>not sure because gitglossary does not tell me about that.
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