sudo

Today when Pangwei came, he was wearing one of his cool T-shirts again.

(Random sidenote: HAHA now I kinda know what every instructor wears! Almost all of them wear formal shirts tucked-out with jeans, except that Zhenghao never buttons the first button, and Pangwei always has damn cool T-shirts with funny stuff on them.)

So today's T-shirt was a dialogue between 2 stick figures that went as such:

Stickfigure1: Make me a sandwich.
Stickfigure2: What? Make it yourself!
Stickfigure1: Sudo make me a sandwich.
Stickfigure2: Okay.

I read that and reread that, and by the end of the lesson I still hadn't got the joke and was pretty pissed, because I got almost all the previous T-shirts. Like the mathlete and robots in disguise one.

It bugged me enough that I had to go to Pangwei and ask him to explain his shirt. ><

Pangwei: Oh. Sudo is a Unix programming term. It means Super User Do.
Zhenghao (who was listening in): No! It's a swear word! It's Spanish for the f-word!
Pangwei: No it's not.
Zhenghao: Yes it is.
Pangwei: Who you trust more? Me or him?
Me: LOL from experience, Zhenghao is a scammer :D

But I couldn't resist checking once I got home. I googled Sudo, and yes it does in fact stand for Super User Do.

I still googled Sudo Spanish as well, because there was always the off chance that Zhenghao wasn't scamming me this time and I'd have learnt a useful new swear word. (Imagine: "Array you!" "Huh?" "Well, sudo you!")

Well, guess what. Zhenghao scammed me. Surprise, surprise. Sudo IS a Spanish word, but it is, according to wiktionary, the first-person singular present tense of "sudar", which means "to sweat". LOL.

("Well, sweat you!" Not particularly threatening.)