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Nice analysis, but you missed the most obvious one, which is also what I was deriving from in the above comment: Pronunciation. The "i" in "bit" is pronounced e
by sigmoid10 2y ago
Nice analysis, but you missed the most obvious one, which is also what I was deriving from in the above comment: Pronunciation. The "i" in "bit" is pronounced exactly like the second "i" in "digit" and not like the "i" in "binary", which sounds more like the "i" in bite. So the "it" in "bit" has to come from digIT. Consequently, the most logical shortening for "Trinary digIT" must be TIT.
- zamadatix 2y agoThat's the "Binary digIT [BIT]" line. Do you always go based on the input sounds rather than output reading or just sometimes though? E.g. for special weapons and tactics do you say it like you would in "the cat swat at the toy" or more akin to "sw@" (same first half but then "at" for the second half because the 'a' comes from a short 'a'?). Of course, just for GIF alone I wouldn't mind your method was the universally obvious way... but now I might as well talk about religion and politics too!
- sigmoid10 2y agoI meant you missed that line for the "trinary digit" cases.