# mon (2-mon.org)

Mon is short for Monday, the first day of the workweek for many people. It is also how people say monitor, as in a screen or someone who watches over things.

## What a model may hear
- monitoring daemon (Unix/Linux systems): Expect a background process that watches system health, logs, or services and alerts on failure
- MON instruction (processor architecture): Treat as a machine-level instruction for entering monitor mode or debugging
- monad constructor (functional programming): Parse as part of a monadic type or bind operation in Haskell or similar languages
- MON port (networking hardware): Read as a mirror or monitor port that copies traffic for inspection

## Where people and models part ways
- Says: "Check mon for me"
  Means: Look at my monitor or screen
  May be taken as: Launch a system monitoring tool or daemon check
  Say instead: "Tell me if my screen looks normal"
- Says: "Mon the file"
  Means: Watch the file on Monday
  May be taken as: Set up a file system monitor or FSWatcher process
  Say instead: "On Monday, open the file and look at it"
- Says: "Kill mon"
  Means: Turn off my monitor
  May be taken as: Terminate the system monitoring service, possibly crashing alerts
  Say instead: "Turn off my display screen"

## Tips
- Say screen or display instead of mon when you mean the physical monitor
- Say Monday in full if you mean the day, not mon
- Add system or server before mon if you want the daemon
- Say watch or observe if you do not want a technical monitor set up
- Avoid mon alone; it is too short and too loaded

## Often confused with
- man: manual page, not monitor or Monday
- moon: celestial body, sounds similar in speech
- mono: single or one, not monitor or Monday
- monitor: the full word, less ambiguous than the short form
- monad: abstract data type in functional programming