Zoe ,'War Stories'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I was told, just once, that techies pronounced the letters. I'd been off and on saying earl up till then (this was in the baby days of the web). Since then I've been ewe-arr-ell quite religiously. But now I'm hearing earl more, and I'm wondering if things are laxer. A wikipedia editor seems to think so. Ewe-errl is wronger than that, though, for sure.
I hate hearing VOIP pronounced. I think you can't help but sound dumb. I try to say voice over IP every time.
I feel like I've been hearing "url" more and more, but I still don't like it. It feels forced.
If I had my way, 95% of the acronyms in the world would be banned.
I feel like I've been hearing "url" more and more, but I still don't like it. It feels forced.
This. THIS. "Eww arr ell", dammit. I don't care how many marketing-types say "earl" in meetings. THEY'RE WRONG.
URL: earl, or ewe-arr-ell? If the latter, how wrong is the former?
Damn, I would never have even considered that anyone would say "earl." That's just...wrong.
I hate hearing VOIP pronounced. I think you can't help but sound dumb.
VOIP headset! Yeah, it does sound dumb.
If I had my way, 95% of the acronyms in the world would be banned.
Please don't make me say uniform resource locator, though.
Just don't say earl, and we're fine.
Wikipedia says it can be pronounced as an acronym or an initialism, like FAQ.
Yeah, you know, I always say you-are-ell, but I think eff-ay-queue sounds silly.
I believe we have discussed this before, and Plei memorably said, "if you say it earl I will FAQ your shit up."
I once memorized Prufrock while walking to breakfast in Athens Greece, over the course of a week or so.
URL: earl, or ewe-arr-ell? If the latter, how wrong is the former?
WRONG WRONG WRONG.
Even if some of my favorite testers and devs use it. U. R. L.
Motherfuckers.