Autistic Individual
You mother fucker
That’s Oedipus. Different guy.
Tedipus
AI is an initialism since you don’t pronounce AI. NASA would be an acronym because you pronounce the word.
this is one of those facts i have to struggle to keep to myself to avoid coming off as an insufferable nerd
I always forget this, thanks
Don’t tell me what to do.
Whatever you do, don’t follow this advice.
AI is pronounced “ay-eye”
Are ya ready kids!
Do SQL next!
Squeal?
You’re one of those? Its sequel and GIF has a hard g.
Soft G folk are just objectively wrong. Not only is Jif a peanut butter, it’s a damn file extension: https://fileinfo.com/extension/jif
I don’t care how inconsequential it is, I will die on this hill.
I like the cut of your jib.
Nah, creator says soft-g. Just like gigawatts.
Correct:
- “Sequel”
- Structured Query Language
Incorrect:
- “Squall”
- “Es-queue-el”
The one that people really screw up? PostgreSQL.
My people often pronounce nginx as “n-ginsk” not “engine x”.
sad pikachu
We call things “bits”, “bytes”, and my favorite: “nybbles”. IT is rife with wordplay. How could they not think it was a cool way to spell “enigne”?!
What about squill?
Yeah, let’s not. :p
TIL (ty)
It can be pronounced though as I or eye or something.
No. That’s how we end up with stupid sounding crap like (ugh) “Gooey” for GUI. Just say G-U-I or A-I.
till (today I learned) some people say G - U - I and not gooey
At my last job I helped design VUIs, voice user interface. We called them “vooeys”.
The first time I heard the term gooey it was from someone I don’t like so now I can’t stand it. All I can think about is buying that dude a toothbrush, but then he’d probably go on about how toothbrushes are actually bad for your health.
some people say G - U - I
It should be that way always, frankly, I don’t know why gooey even got started. Something “gooey” is the last thing I’d want associated with computer stuff
But I loathe all of the stupid attempts at shoehorning pronunciations of initialisms where it doesn’t belong
It’s not “Sequel” its fucking S-Q-L. They’re all initialisms. I will go through my entire IT career and die on this hill.
Do you say J-P-E-G instead of jay-peg?
No because jay-peg actually makes sense and fits well, just like NASA makes sense and fits well. You can say NASA and JPEG without having to introduce additional letters to make it work. Unlike “Gooey”, “Sequel”, or “Scuzzy” which all require the addon of more letters to actually work
You can just see JPEG and intuitively go “Oh Jay-PEG” you can’t say the same for SCSI
You have to “add” letters for JPEG to be pronounceable.
I suppose you called them small computer system interface drives instead of SCSI drives too.
I just say S-C-S-I instead of “Scuzzy” or whatever it is
Everyone says H-T-T-P, why don’t they say “Hettep”‽
Nah, it’s scuzzy.
And when I’m trolling, I say “huh-tu-tu-puh” for HTTP.
It’s not “sequel,” it’s “squirrel.”
No, GUI is a great acronym.
I had a colleague pronounce CLI as an acronym, though, and that stopped a meeting short.
Huh, short i?
He said it like “klee”
He’ll probably never live it down
Ah, I thought it was like “clit,” but missing the “t.” That could get you sent to HR…
I’m no snitch
TIL you can pronounce it “Gooey” - aww, people are wierd but creative!
Funny having the opposite realization. Wonder how many times each of us have heard others pronounce GUI. You in the US?
Hard for me to estimate now that I think about it
I’ve probably said GUI tens of thousands of times. Have you ever heard some pronounce SQL as squeal?
LOL
Thankfully absolutely not
‘I’ before ‘E’ except after ‘W’
It’s easy to remember because it rhymes
It’s been called a gooey since at least the mid 80s. All you kids get off my lawn.
Then it’s been wrong since the mid-80s and also becomes probable someone just did it as a joke and then it persisted
Nope, G-U-I is objectively wrong. Get off A7thStone’s lawn, we’re having a nice chat.
Or counterpoint, you’re wrong and you should feel bad.
Nah, and I can prove it
mathgramaticallyIn order to make GUI pronounceable you have to add in vowels and blend consonants and fundamentally changes it’s pronociation. GUI is meant to have each letter on its own, and on their own those letters cannot make the “oo” and “ee” sounds
On their own they make the following pronunciations:
G: Pronounced as /dʒi/
U: Pronounced as /ju/ (like “you”)
I: Pronounced as /aɪ/ (like “eye”), with a long “i” sound
In contrast, true acronyms like “NASA” form a pronounceable word naturally without requiring any modifications, making “Gooey” a grammatically improper pronunciation of “GUI.”
You’re right everyone pronounces taxi as tax eye. You’re actually trying to dictate pronunciation in English?
WYSIWYG = why see wig
Wizzy-wig.
I always said Wizz-e-wig
As a probably not autistic person, email is one area where warmth is not wanted. Just get to the point, I have a dozen more to get through. And that’s precisely why you shouldn’t use AI to write email, AI rambles, I want 1-2 sentences, short phrases are fine.
Rua must never have worked tech support. I’ve been accused of being a robot more times than I can count, years before ChatGPT was even a thing.
Nice try, robot.
Nice try, AI powered AI detector.
We’ve had automated chats for a long time
Yeah, but I’m far more articulate than those things ever were which is what makes it so insulting >:[
For the last time, my name is Al
ALAN! ALAN!
Should’ve just said “Ain’t AI. I just dgaf”
It’s work email not a love letter.
You really cannot blame them. Especially when Universities partner with OpenAI and cut off all ways to contact advisors aside from text and email right before admissions.
See you next Friday
Shoulda said Tuesday
K, I have an Excel sheet that helps me with epitaphs, I’ll update it to use next Tuesday if that’s the normal
See you next 1727813501
I don’t get the entitlement. I’d need to see the context for the first message but who cares if a robot penned the message?
Even in annoying circumstances, like if it seems you’ve been auto-rejected by a bot, you can frame it better than “I demand to see your
managerhuman.”Edit: on review, it’s less “entitlement”, more “smarmy”. Equally annoying.
If only their next meeting had been on a Tuesday, that would have been the perfect plausibly deniable “fuck you” to end the reply with 😄
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