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 ๐
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AI is an initialism since you don't pronounce AI. NASA would be an acronym because you pronounce the word.
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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AI is pronounced "ay-eye"
Are ya ready kids!
This may be a bit prescriptivist. Most people use the word acronym for all of them.
Wait you do not pronounce AI like a Sopranos character that just found an eye ball on the sidewalk?
this is one of those facts i have to struggle to keep to myself to avoid coming off as an insufferable nerd
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.
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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WYSIWYG = why see wig
I always said Wizz-e-wig
Wizzy-wig.
till (today I learned) some people say G - U - I and not gooey
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.
At my last job I helped design VUIs, voice user interface. We called them โvooeysโ.
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
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It's not "sequel," it's "squirrel."
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"โฝ
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I've always said the letters and was surprised when I heard someone say 'gooey' when I entered college.
Still don't like it.
no one likes being wrong
TIL you can pronounce it "Gooey" - aww, people are wierd but creative!
'I' before 'E' except after 'W'
It's easy to remember because it rhymes
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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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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I always forget this, thanks
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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.
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Aitistic.
Since ChatGPT learns from internet users, does that mean the majority of internet users are autistic?