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You could also just pronounce it the way the rest of the world does
by nihakue 4y ago
You could also just pronounce it the way the rest of the world does
- bamboozled 4y ago
- gpvos 4y agoIn the aforementioned rest of the world, most people have another first language.
- TotempaaltJ 4y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ppbbYXMxE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3ppbbYXMxE
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- Buttons840 4y agoGreat video. It points out the similarity of "Uranus" and "uranium"; we should pronounce the first 2 syllable of those words the same if we want to be consistent, and I think we all know how uranium is pronounced.
- Kaibeezy 4y agourine-yum?
- rendall 4y agoI, for one, applaud puerility.
- rendall 4y agoBecause it's hard to notice, but "Uranus" sounds like "your anus". It's funny to point this out, each and every time "Uranus" comes up in any context whatsoever.
- raducu 4y agoDon't turn HN into reddit, please.
- bamboozled 4y ago
- rhengles 4y agoOne of the ideas I have, but will not have time to do, it's to make a site or browser extension to allow users to send extra content, reactions, memes, pictures, etc on Hacker News submissions and comments without having fear of the downvotes. There's many many times that I wanted to post a funny reply but I'm certain that I'd get many downvotes from it.
- raducu 4y agoAlso a very old idea of mine :) But in part that's what reddit does. Also a general-purpose geographic forum, where you can leave notes to people in a certain area ("I lost/found this item around here"/"beware of the crazy old lady leaving poison for dogs in this area"/"beware the child toy in the park catches on children hands; make sure they keep their hands above the seat at all times"). I also thought about tinder before smartphones had finger touch screens. Which goes to show execution is everything.
- bamboozled 4y agoIt's forbidden on the Hacker News
- bamboozled 4y agoIt's forbidden on the Hacker News. Many things go unsaid due to fear of down votes.
- Sharlin 4y agoWhich is why the GP suggested that y'all start pronouncing it the way most non-native-English speakers do, aka "the rest of the world".
- mdp2021 4y ago> funny name 'Uranus' is the same as 'Europa' (and many more terms): "breadth" - the former used for the vast cover which is the sky, the second for the land extension. There's nothing funny about it unless one really hunts for coincidences in sounds through unduly overlappings. What has «first language» do with it? If you read 'Al' in 'Alcohol' as "Alfred", you are reading it wrong: "Al" is a definite article there, irregardless of coincidences.
- bamboozled 4y agoIt's a good point about the first language, not so important. The rest I dont' get, the fact Uranus actually sounds like "Your Anus" is just a thing, it can't be helped. When I hear the word Alcohol, I do sometimes think of the nickname for Allan or Alistair which is often Al; However, it's not just as funny as thinking about a planet being called "Your Anus, Uranus". Anyway, I've been cancelled so have a nice day.
- mdp2021 4y agoYou have not been "cancelled": you were being "noisy" - distracting on pretty weak basis of a joke as old as mold - and brought to margin. "Cancelled" is someone who found a nice theorem but boo, a bad guy cannot do culture. There's a difference, and again quite some proportion. On the other hand, as you may see in the page, I have been called an AI and a "fake account" - which, you know, also tends to be quite insulting about one's person. Anything wrong with the air today?
- bamboozled 4y agoCan you point out where I made a joke sorry?
- mdp2021 4y agoI only meant, the reference from 'Uranus' to 'anus', that I referred to as the "joke". I am not sure about what was your initial comment, as it was hidden as flagged before I could read it.
- bawolff 4y agoNot really. There are two accepted pronunciations of uranus - one sounds a lot more like "your anus" than the other. Either way, i find the juvenile jokes that come up whenever the planet is mentioned to be quite tiresome.
- bamboozled 4y agoNot to hurt your feelings but the fact you find it tiresome won't change anything, people aren't going to wake up one day and just decide its not a funny name. We're not going to start to teach children classes on why it's wrong to laugh at the name Uranus. I was just being practical when I said what I said. It's not a great name.
- mdp2021 4y ago> It's not a great name The Greek name for the sky would not be a great name?! This really passes every limit. There is absolutely no reasonable entitlement to measure a term through what the term is not. It is a perfectly complete term which you are mishandling and misunderstanding: it is your issue. > We're not going to start to teach children classes We do: with basic education. It gives among the rest the basic idea not to read 'sabotage' in Korean when it is French.
- bamboozled 4y agoActually just think it can be a bit of fun in some contexts, lighten up a bit?
- GekkePrutser 4y agoHow many people speak Greek these days? A lot more people hear "your butthole" than "the sky" when they hear that name. Besides the 'coolness' of associating with the ancient Greeks, the naming does not have much to do with today's world. Not that I advocate changing it but the choice of language seems pretty arbitrary too.
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- prepend 4y agoI think GP is suggesting it be renamed to Urbutthole or something like that to make it specifically distinguished as camp and pun so as to filter out anyone who would set their scientific priorities based on the name of the celestial body. I’m not one to scream about kids these days but it seems really weird that someone would suggest renaming a planet to avoid elementary school puns. And the puns probably help with Uranus science. Of course, some DNA sequences were recently renamed to avoid Excel errors so maybe we’re entering the era of trying to make subjective changes because it’s hard to understand or hard to change objective things.