{"id":41114,"date":"2021-03-06T23:40:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T23:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=41114"},"modified":"2021-03-06T23:40:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T23:40:59","slug":"can-tack-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/can-tack-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Can &#8220;tack&#8221; mean &#8220;-&#8220;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about comp sci terminology: the tutor looks into a point of usage.<\/h2>\n<p>\nApparently one spoken way to indicate &#8220;-&#8221; (dash, hyphen, minus, or whatever you call it) is &#8220;tack.&#8221; I encountered this today: apparently it&#8217;s common in some circles.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/191807\/pronunciation-of-sign-particularly-in-unix-commands#:~:text=flags%20in%20use.-,The%20tackline%20is%20transmitted%20and%20spoken%20as%20tack%20and%20is,is%20used%20to%20avoid%20ambiguity.&#038;text=If%20tack%20is%20treated%20as,line%2C%20but%20people%20cope%20anyway.\">StackExchange<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about comp sci terminology: the tutor looks into a point of usage. Apparently one spoken way to indicate &#8220;-&#8221; (dash, hyphen, minus, or whatever you call it) is &#8220;tack.&#8221; I encountered this today: apparently it&#8217;s common in some circles. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/can-tack-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can &#8220;tack&#8221; mean &#8220;-&#8220;?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41116,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41114\/revisions\/41116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}