From: i18n
Message: 1178
Date: 2003-01-23
Peter T. Daniels scripsit:
> I'd take "sudo" as a Japanese form!
Which merely shows that you are not a native speaker of the Unix dialect
("a language without an army or a navy"). :-)
"Su" is an acronym for "super-user" (most privileged user), so "sudo" is
a command to allow mere mortals to do something as the super-user.
I am a native speaker of Unix and non-native speaker of Japanese - "sudo" does have a Japanese look and feel to it. It is not a Unix command in my repertoire - root all the way here...., and so I had only read it, never heard it pronounced. In my mind's ear, it was always rhyming with the Japanese "judo".
Barry
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