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> Author's note: I pronounce the letters in GUI separately. Why would you ever pronounce it "gooey?" Please don't do that. Just don't. Solidarity!

• johnklos 1y ago
  ...because fighting about silly things that are just fun to poke each other about is much more fun than fighting about things like politics in this day and age... vi versus emacs, vi versus vim, (guh sound)IF versus (j sound)IF, m68k versus x86, Mac versus Amiga, BSD versus Linux, et cetera.
  • ayaros 1y ago
    Yes, I know right! Imagine what kind of beautiful world we could live in if we spent trillions of dollars on this instead of the military industrial complex!
  • b112 1y ago
    Where I grew up, in the 80s, it was a toss between a mouse and trackball for people. Same sort of arguments. I kind of like both.
• ayaros 1y ago
  Thankfully someone agrees with me!
  • Avshalom 1y ago
    There! Are! Dozens! Of! Us! (actually there's a shit ton of us who learned computers via text and pronounce things correctly)
    • ayaros 1y ago
      YES
  • b112 1y ago
    Initialisms are just that! Otherwise, how can you tell snmp from sntp from smtp!
• wpm 1y ago
  We should pronounce all acronyms/initialisms. TUI = tooey CLI = clee TCP/IP = tickipip GPT = gipity DNS = dunce HTTP = Hittup USB = Oosbuh USB-C = Oosbuhc
  • ayaros 1y ago
    This is pure evil
  • hoistbypetard 1y ago
    > GPT = gipity I'm calling foul on that one. It's "Jay pay tay". Which sounds the same as the French phrase "J'ai pété" or "I farted." That makes me laugh more than gipity.
  • phatskat 1y ago
    My favorite is my friend’s pronunciation of “LGBTQIA”, or “littebittiqua”. Also, I’m definitely gonna start using “dunce” and “Oosbuh”, but stick with “USB C”
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• Gormo 1y ago
  Almost as bad as people who pronounce 'SQL' as 'sequel'.