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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!

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We should pronounce all acronyms/initialisms.

TUI = tooey

CLI = clee

TCP/IP = tickipip

GPT = gipity

DNS = dunce

HTTP = Hittup

USB = Oosbuh

USB-C = Oosbuhc

This is pure evil

> 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.

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”

Almost as bad as people who pronounce 'SQL' as 'sequel'.

...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.

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!

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.

Thankfully someone agrees with me!

Initialisms are just that!

Otherwise, how can you tell snmp from sntp from smtp!

There! Are! Dozens! Of! Us!

(actually there's a shit ton of us who learned computers via text and pronounce things correctly)

YES

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