say vt.
1. To type to a terminal. "To list a directory verbosely, you
have to say ls -l." Tends to imply a newline-terminated command (a `sentence'). 2.
A computer may also be said to `say' things to you, even if it
doesn't have a speech synthesizer, by displaying them on a
terminal in response to your commands. Hackers find it odd that
this usage confuses mundanes.