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2 years ago by The Picard Maneuver to c/whitepeopletwitter

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ted 247 points 2 years ago

Autistic Individual

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Cadeillac 59 points 2 years ago

You mother fucker

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TheBat 74 points 2 years ago

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Cadeillac 6 points 2 years ago

Tedipus

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StopJoiningWars 2 points 2 years ago

Welcome to my TEDipus talk.

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ThePantser 151 points 2 years ago

AI is an initialism since you don't pronounce AI. NASA would be an acronym because you pronounce the word.

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chrash0 98 points 2 years ago

this is one of those facts i have to struggle to keep to myself to avoid coming off as an insufferable nerd

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Denjin 22 points 2 years ago

Boom, roasted

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sugar_in_your_tea 4 points 2 years ago

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umbrella 0 points 2 years ago

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Infynis 33 points 2 years ago

Now this is the kind of pedantry I'm here for

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nokturne213 20 points 2 years ago

Wait you do not pronounce AI like a Sopranos character that just found an eye ball on the sidewalk?

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lauha 17 points 2 years ago

Don't tell me what to do.

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dejected_warp_core 5 points 2 years ago

Whatever you do, don't follow this advice.

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The_Picard_Maneuver 15 points 2 years ago

I always forget this, thanks

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Semi_Hemi_Demigod 8 points 2 years ago

AI is pronounced "ay-eye"

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Sabre363 10 points 2 years ago

Are ya ready kids!

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bitchkat 7 points 2 years ago

Do SQL next!

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dejected_warp_core 9 points 2 years ago

Correct:

  • "Sequel"
  • Structured Query Language

Incorrect:

  • "Squall"
  • "Es-queue-el"

The one that people really screw up? PostgreSQL.

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Sotuanduso 14 points 2 years ago

Squirrel.

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dejected_warp_core 2 points 2 years ago

Where?!

:: confused ADHD noises ::

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TheOakTree 13 points 2 years ago

It's interesting that Wikipedia says it's pronounced " S-Q-L" but was historically pronounced "sequel."

Also interesting, MySQL says on their site:

The official way to pronounce “MySQL” is “My Ess Que Ell” (not “my sequel”), but we do not mind if you pronounce it as “my sequel” or in some other localized way.

Lastly, for those curious, PostgreSQL says on their site:

PostgreSQL is pronounced Post-Gres-Q-L.

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SLVRDRGN 6 points 2 years ago

Post Graduate Squirrel

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SuolaSeta 7 points 2 years ago

My people often pronounce nginx as "n-ginsk" not "engine x".

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sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 2 years ago

sad pikachu

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dejected_warp_core 1 point 2 years ago

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"?!

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sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 2 years ago

What about squill?

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dejected_warp_core 1 point 2 years ago

Yeah, let's not. :p

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lath 7 points 2 years ago

Squeal?

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bitchkat 6 points 2 years ago

You're one of those? Its sequel and GIF has a hard g.

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Fuck_u_spez_ 10 points 2 years ago

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.

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rubicon 2 points 2 years ago

I called this S.Q.L. until our IT guy corrected me

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cm0002 3 points 2 years ago

I'm the head of IT for my company and it's S-Q-L and I'm a native speaker.

It's not a grammatically correct pronunciation at all (which is why it seems like non-native English tends to not say "Sequel") and even MySQL documentation specifically calls it out and says it's S-Q-L

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zeekaran 2 points 2 years ago

Generally English first language speakers say sequel while everyone else spells it out.

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Mouselemming 5 points 2 years ago

If it's pronounced sequel why isn't it CQL?

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criitz 4 points 2 years ago

This may be a bit prescriptivist. Most people use the word acronym for all of them.

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abfarid 4 points 2 years ago

Is initialism a type of acronym? Or do they have an umbrella term? Surely, they are the same thing, but if initialism has easily string-able sounds it's an acronym (ex. CPU vs. RAM). And some are even both depending on person saying it, like LED.

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mpa92643 8 points 2 years ago

Other way around.

An acronym is a type of initialism, which is itself a type of abbreviation.

So acronyms are initialisms where you pronounce the letters like a word (e.g., RAM), initialisms are abbreviations made by taking the initial letters of multiple words and concatenating them regardless of how it's spoken (e.g. FBI for Federal Bureau of Investigation), and an abbreviation is any shortening of a word or phrase into something shorter (e.g., "abbrev." for abbreviation or "US" for United States).

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Baku 2 points 2 years ago

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abfarid 2 points 2 years ago

I did some research, and apparently, "United States" without "of America" could be a kind of ellipsis. But more likely, it's just an alternative country name. So I think that makes US an initialism (because you pronounce it as [yu-es]) for an alt (bonus info: this is a final clipping, or apocope, of "alternative") name.

Linguistics is such a dirt hut...

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Baku 3 points 2 years ago

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abfarid 3 points 2 years ago

It doesn't happen very often, but I've heard it used that way. It's usually obvious from context, like I think I heard with "OLED vs. LED". And as @brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee mentioned, it's used a lot in languages other than English, in my experience in many slavic ones, for example.

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brachypelmasmithi 2 points 2 years ago

Haven't ever heard it in English either, but it's very common in Polish. In Polish LED can even become a proper adjective, e.g. "światło ledowe" (LED light), with the initialism even losing capitalisation

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Randomgal 4 points 2 years ago

|ay| checkmate atheists.

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psud 1 point 2 years ago

On the other hand everyone says "acronym" even when they know the word "initialism" so I'm not entirely sure you're really completely correct

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CommanderCloon 1 point 2 years ago

TIL (ty)

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voracread -5 points 2 years ago

It can be pronounced though as I or eye or something.

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int_not_found 21 points 2 years ago

Yeah you can do that. You would be wrong and people around you would wonder why you switched the subject. But you can do that.

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rickyrigatoni 1 point 2 years ago

But how many people would I need to convince to pronounce it for it to turn into an acronym?

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cm0002 3 points 2 years ago

No. That's how we end up with stupid sounding crap like (ugh) "Gooey" for GUI. Just say G-U-I or A-I.

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brbposting 11 points 2 years ago

till (today I learned) some people say G - U - I and not gooey

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Sabre363 5 points 2 years ago

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.

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Halosheep 5 points 2 years ago

I've always said the letters and was surprised when I heard someone say 'gooey' when I entered college.

Still don't like it.

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SmoothLiquidation 3 points 2 years ago

At my last job I helped design VUIs, voice user interface. We called them “vooeys”.

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cm0002 2 points 2 years ago

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.

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SpaceNoodle 9 points 2 years ago

No, GUI is a great acronym.

I had a colleague pronounce CLI as an acronym, though, and that stopped a meeting short.

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sugar_in_your_tea 1 point 2 years ago

Huh, short i?

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angrystego 7 points 2 years ago

TIL you can pronounce it "Gooey" - aww, people are wierd but creative!

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brbposting 4 points 2 years ago

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

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Cadeillac 1 point 2 years ago

'I' before 'E' except after 'W'

It's easy to remember because it rhymes

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A7thStone 7 points 2 years ago

It's been called a gooey since at least the mid 80s. All you kids get off my lawn.

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cm0002 1 point 2 years ago

Then it's been wrong since the mid-80s and also becomes probable someone just did it as a joke and then it persisted

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TheGiantKorean 2 points 2 years ago

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zarkanian 6 points 2 years ago

Wizzy-wig.

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ThePantser 3 points 2 years ago

I always said Wizz-e-wig

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Sundial 102 points 2 years ago

Since ChatGPT learns from internet users, does that mean the majority of internet users are autistic?

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TheDarksteel94 114 points 2 years ago

You already know the answer to that one lol

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tdawg 23 points 2 years ago

A place known for highly obsessive and weirdly specific knowledge experts? Surely not

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sugar_in_your_tea 101 points 2 years ago

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.

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ByteOnBikes 14 points 2 years ago

At my job, Email is either:

  • Jira notifications
  • Long ramblings about some project or fire that happened

All other communication is through our chat (zulip, like Slack) or video calls.

I remember dealing with short emails back in the day. But id flip out these days.

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sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 2 years ago

Yup, pretty much the same. If we do get email, they're usually pretty short, or they're corporate nonsense.

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SoleInvictus 5 points 2 years ago

Seriously. I want highly detailed, equally highly concise emails. Send me an email with the topic in the subject and only relevant bullet points in the body and I'll love the hell out of you.

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voracitude 89 points 2 years ago

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spankmonkey 45 points 2 years ago

Nice try, robot.

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Viking_Hippie 14 points 2 years ago

Nice try, AI powered AI detector.

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bitchkat 2 points 2 years ago

We've had automated chats for a long time

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voracitude 3 points 2 years ago

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Evotech 53 points 2 years ago

For the last time, my name is Al

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cdf12345 29 points 2 years ago

Will you be my bodyguard?

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Crackhappy 20 points 2 years ago

I can be your long lost Pal.

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sugar_in_your_tea 6 points 2 years ago

I can call you Betty

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jawa21 2 points 2 years ago

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varjen 0 points 2 years ago

PAI

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ada 3 points 2 years ago

I can call you Betty And Betty, when you call me. You can call me AI

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TastyWheat 1 point 2 years ago

ALAN! ALAN!

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NigelFrobisher 37 points 2 years ago

I just see two autistics attempting to communicate by email.

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SSJMarx 32 points 2 years ago

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androogee 14 points 2 years ago

Oh shit, that sounds way more fun than casual Friday

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SSJMarx 7 points 2 years ago

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redisdead 6 points 2 years ago

Someone, in a mail including my boss and other managers, complained that my replies were too short

To which I replied

'They are as long as they need to be.'

So she went 'A little warmth would help communication greatly' or some other bullshit.

So I added automatic top and bottom text to my emails and for the past idk 10 years or so, all my emails start with 'Hi,' and end with 'Cordially.'

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Cornflake_Dog 26 points 2 years ago

Sent from Proton Mail mobile 😭😭😭

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The_Picard_Maneuver 13 points 2 years ago

Does that confirm it?

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Cornflake_Dog 16 points 2 years ago

As a Proton user? Definitely.

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TriflingToad 7 points 2 years ago

beyond any doubt

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finitebanjo 25 points 2 years ago

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.

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SkunkWorkz 20 points 2 years ago

Should’ve just said “Ain’t AI. I just dgaf”

It’s work email not a love letter.

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Viking_Hippie 18 points 2 years ago

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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Egg_Egg 17 points 2 years ago

Aitistic.

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frezik 11 points 2 years ago

Why aren't you helping the tortoise?

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DragonTypeWyvern 1 point 2 years ago

Never trust a tortoise. Horny bastards.

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half_built_pyramids 10 points 2 years ago

See you next Friday

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SpaceNoodle 5 points 2 years ago

Shoulda said Tuesday

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half_built_pyramids 2 points 2 years ago

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

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Sabata11792 8 points 2 years ago

It's not Ai. I'm just dead inside.

See you next Friday.

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x0x7 6 points 2 years ago

In the future all emails and messages will have to include at least one element of offensiveness to prove you are not AI.

OP is a homo.

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TriflingToad 2 points 2 years ago

I agree.

OPs mom is large.

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qarbone 5 points 2 years ago

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 manager human."

Edit: on review, it's less "entitlement", more "smarmy". Equally annoying.

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schema 1 point 2 years ago

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Caprese59 1 point 2 years ago

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