Comment by RupertSalt
10 days ago
I was in a group who began pronouncing the dashes in command-line options as "tack" and they said it was military lingo, but I cannot now find any connection to dash, hyphen, "minus", or Morse code "dah".
10 days ago
I was in a group who began pronouncing the dashes in command-line options as "tack" and they said it was military lingo, but I cannot now find any connection to dash, hyphen, "minus", or Morse code "dah".
Tack is short for tackline, a length of line used to delimit messages encoded with flags in the days before shipboard radio communications.
Military and civil emergency communications use alternative pronunciations where clarity and brevity are critical.
Ooh! I do this! I got it from Darren Kitchen from Hak5! I have no idea where or why he did it though.