Pronouncing Acronymns

[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?)

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[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.

[code frog 0]

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)

[Brigg Thorp]

:laugh: Brigg Thorp Senior Software Engineer Timex Corporation

[kennster]

Gas will have to rise to something like $5.00 a gallon before HEV is best economical choice for me. Additionally, there is typically a close correlation between the amount of energy required to manufacture something and the cost of that something. Not always, but usually. So, any saving to the economy done by increased fuel effeciency may be at the expense of additional energy expenditures during the manufactoring process. I of course don't know for certain, but it sounds good anyway. Google Answers Energy required to manufacture typical vehicle[^] In any event, I did the math when I bought my car last November, when I was driving 36 miles each way to work, which essentially worked out to gas needing to cost roughly $5.00 a gallon before the huge cost differential between a hybrid that may get 50 mpg on average is more economical than a $13,000.00 Neon. Plus, I only drive 8 miles to work these days, and even considering that I go home for lunch at least two or three days a week, and it would take a lot higher gas prices to account for the 11K price difference between something like the Honda Civic Hybrid and my car ($23,700 in my zip code on CarsDirect.com). If I were to buy a car today, I would most certainly go with the Toyota Yaris ($13,960), which gets 40 MPG, is bigger than the original Corolla was (which is now bigger than the original Camry), and pocket the 10K difference.

[Charlie Williams]

You're not alone. I'm sitting here reading some of these resonses on my Lycod screen wondering if these people are on Pecip or something. I mean, Wytoff, you know? On a side note, Hussbuck has a pretty neat drive-through Atom. It was even featured on last night's Cessi, which I watched even though I'm supposed to be boycotting Coobus. Eyemo, it's the best show on Teev, with Nookis running a close second. Charlie

[Member 96]

In my younger daze we used to refer to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) as "Gurks" because on the doors of the police cars it has RCMP above the logo and GRC below the logo which is the acronym for the french version of Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Actually about that same time there was a local funeral home called "Hulse and Playfair" and we used to say "No pulse, call Hulse - we play fair" :-D Another sort of abbreviated way of saying the name of a place I've noticed people use is to use the last syllable instead (where it works). Actually that's also a favorite method used by speculative fiction writers with stories set in post apocalyptic times I've noticed. The local mutant populace has only the vaguest memory of what places used to be called that are progressively shortened until a place like Los Angeles is now "Lees". No you're not alone, there's a budding career for you at NASA if you have that talent down pat already.

[El Corazon]

kennster wrote:

Gas will have to rise to something like $5.00 a gallon before HEV is best economical choice for me.

With me there were a variety of reasons, I drive 50.5 miles to work plus an extra 150 once every two weeks, sometime 180 if I shop in El Paso. I do the national park tours annually, pick a direction and drive for a couple of weeks, that puts an additional 1000 over my normal driving for two weeks. Some of those parks are begining to close to all except ultra low emission vehicles, especially in Winter (temperature inversions). So all in all it wasn't money, it was access, money and I needed a new car anyhow and really didn't fit in a Neon anymore than I did in the Insight. :) Plus when I drive once a year for work... I get paid a generic reimbursement per mile. :) It's only once, but it still saves them over flying to that one location. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) -- modified at 12:57 Wednesday 17th May, 2006