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In the classic tradition of thinking that “dang” is pronounced “dang” and not “Dan G.” I propose that we read “tomhow” as “Tomh Ow”.

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If you torture it a bit, you can make it "tomorrow" said with a weird accent. To mh ow

That is exactly what my brain auto completed it into when I read the headline

So, like if you were from Boston?

Towhom it may concern,

I prefer the dyslexic pronunciation of towhom.

Has Dan ever commented on whether the "dang" pronunciation was intentional? I too, was under the impression he just liked the twanginess of the word.

I have people call me Joenot - in reality, this username was chosen decades ago by my mother, pairing Joe (my name) and Not(tawa) - my tiny hometown.

Sometimes I wish I'd chosen better but like many names, once it's out there, it tends to stick.

> dang” is pronounced “dang” and not “Dan G.”

WAIT WHAT?!?

I just assumed his name was actually "Dang" like he was Vietnamese or something.

same. and when I learned it was Dan G I didn't accept it entirely. now it's a sort of superposition of them - and mostly a nebulous entity that maintains civil discourse - like something from a Miyazaki movie

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35463012

Nice, thanks dang

I too realized this only like a year ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35463012

How comes your karma points halved?

That is natural canadon decay. Think uranium slowly turning into lead, that sort of thing.

Karma is stored in a 16 bit integer. It overflowed.

That's cool

I think tom(a)how would work too.

"To mhow"

Pronounced exactly as "to meow"

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