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Huh. Been pronouncing it in my head as "dang!" (like the "expletive") all this time
by kennethrc 4y ago
Huh. Been pronouncing it in my head as "dang!" (like the "expletive") all this time
- jjice 4y agoOh man I just got this too. Dan G. Jeez. I'm going to pretend I didn't see that, but what a minor change to something I interact with every day. Neat!
- daxfohl 4y agoIt's like that Seinfeld episode. https://seinfeld.fandom.com/wiki/Donna_Chang https://seinfeld.fandom.com/wiki/Donna_Chang
- tjr 4y agoNot necessarily wrong though! https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt https://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt Login names are often used as nicknames, pronounce[d] if possible and spelled if necessary. My wife and I met at MIT, and she still calls me "Gliss", because my login name was GLS. "Guy" sounds very weird to her.
- benatkin 4y agoSome are more than just logins or nicknames, they're handles. I will never use substack.com* after they stole substack's handle. * as a publisher or a subscriber, and to some extent even as a reader
- Zecc 4y agoMy thoughts go to the person in my college whose login, based on their initials, was `acne`.
- spindle 4y agoThere's no way I'm ever going to stop pronouncing it "dang!". I'm sure dang knows this.
- brundolf 4y ago"Dang" is a last name some people have, I assumed it was that for a long time
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- dang 4y agoI do too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25061563 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25061563
- pkrotich 4y agoSame here - reminds me of a lawyer named “So Sue” - cannot find the reference but I thought it must be interesting seeing her name on legal papers.