Pronouncing Acronymns

David Stone

Yes. You are. ;P

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Colin Angus Mackay

benjymous wrote:

Am I alone in this insanity?

No. I've heard of other people doing the same.

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog

Paddy Boyd

As long as you don't start doing it in presentations where a number of the audience might not be up with your latest terminology... :) Went to a presentation where a gentleman kept dropping the acronym ASFARP into the run of his delivery, assuming that we would all know what he was talking about and not think that he was just to lazy to say 'as far as is reasonably practicable'...

benjymous

Ass-Farp? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!

Paddy Boyd

:-D

leppie

LOL (not pronounced al oh al) :laugh:**

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Maxwell Chen

leppie wrote:

LOL (not pronounced al oh al)

El oh el ?! :rolleyes:

Maxwell Chen

Colin Angus Mackay

Its a Zood efrikin eksent :-D

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog

Paul Watson

:laugh: Never been referred to as Zood before. regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you

Shog9 wrote:

eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

Colin Angus Mackay

Paul Watson wrote:

Never been referred to as Zood before.

Now looking at Zood on its own makes it look like something out of the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog

Paul Watson

:-D We are sure to be in it. Under the Braai entry. Most Aussies say Seuth Efrikin. And the French say Afrique du Sud. The Sud there could be twisted into Zood. Though it is more like the Sud in Sudanese. regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you

Shog9 wrote:

eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

Colin Angus Mackay

Paul Watson wrote:

Seuth

Oh, well... The "th" definitely sounds like a softened "d" to my ears and the "s" sounds like the "s" in "is". I guess it is a matter of perception. I assumed it was the influence of Afrikaans. Is south not zuid (or is that Dutch?)

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." --Charles Babbage (1791-1871) My: Website | Blog

Kastellanos Nikos

Can the admins please lock down this thread? I can see it coming. :-> If this keeps on, i excpect someone soon to start using phonemas. Then one or two exceptional programmers who allready knew perl,xslt,ocaml, and every other bizare language out there, will see it, learn phonemas and start conversations in the lounge. Soon the habit will move to other normal boards (from SysAdmin and ATL to ADO.NET and VB). Eventually codeproject will declare phonemas as it's recomented (aka standard) encoding for text messages.

kennster

Sue-Vee ... I love SUVs: nothing chears me up quite the same way as driving next to a dumb-a$$ driving a 12mpg, 30 something thousand dollar SUV Nissan Titan or Nissan Armada or other equally stupid vehicle in my 32 mpg, $13,000.00 Dodge Neon. My friend, who just gradumated from Useless F in Tampa, FL, with a Mechanical Engineering degree, paying no head to reality, bought a Nissan Titan for his daily commute: keep in mind, he doesn't have a boat, doesn't have kids, nothing, fresh out of college, and he buys a Nissan Titan. His payments are $500.00 a month. When gas was just breaking the $2.00 barrier, he confided in me that he was paying in excess of $500.00 a month in fuel costs, tack on to that something like $300.00 a month for insurance. That is more than I spend on the mortgage, home owners insurance, property taxes, and utilities on my $130,000.00 house. Enjoy your SUV's!! I'll be happy knowing I contributed as little as possible to Lee Raymond's $440 MILLION DOLLAR retirement package :).

Paul Watson

hmm odd. Never heard a Saffa pronounce it like a Z. The Se in Seuth is normally like the Se in Seoul. regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you

Shog9 wrote:

eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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benjymous wrote:

Am I alone in this insanity?

Yup. :-D

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Brigg Thorp

Anyone who said that they don't pronounce acronyms are lying. Do you say "S.C.S.I" or do you say scuzzy? Enough said. Brigg Thorp Senior Software Engineer Timex Corporation

El Corazon

leppie wrote:

(not pronounced al oh al)

not even loll as in the first syllabel of lollipop? :rolleyes: _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

El Corazon

kennster wrote:

Enjoy your SUV's!!

No thanks... I will enjoy my HEV... ;P _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

El Corazon

Brigg Thorp wrote:

Do you say "S.C.S.I" or do you say scuzzy?

Actually I have known a few people who use Sexy instead of Scuzzy... that was a real disturbing meeting until I caught on.... _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)