We should try to spread the story that there are people who pronounce 'http' as 'huh tuh tuh puh.'
'Hut tup'?
'Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy.' 'Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.'
Jayne ,'Safe'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
tommyrot - Nov 06, 2009 3:03:19 pm PST #17662 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
sarameg - Nov 06, 2009 3:05:59 pm PST #17663 of 30001
We have sequel servers. In which we run ess-queue-ell. I'm not sure if the sequel server is actually the SQL server and the dbas use both in a single sentence. Beat me.
In my family, there's only been one time a member was a fan of a sports team: my dad was a big fan of the Rockford Peaches. He used to go to games as a kid.
Grabbed the wrong swimsuit, the old one. Man, that was like swimming in a bag. An incredible clingy and formfitting bag. Pitched it in the lockerroom.
§ ita § - Nov 06, 2009 3:07:17 pm PST #17664 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
MySQL is usually my ess queue ell to me. SQL Server has only ever been sequel server in my experience. The language? Probably ess queue ell, but not always.
FAQ is eff aye queue. Oh, yes.
Atropa - Nov 06, 2009 3:11:47 pm PST #17665 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
According to things I have had to edit, it's supposed to be ess queue ell. Which is ridic, because no one around here at the company even pronounces it that way.
-t - Nov 06, 2009 3:12:42 pm PST #17666 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
it occurs to me that I've been saying fack longer than I've been saying you-are-ell, maybe that has something to do with my attitude towards them being different.
Zenkitty - Nov 06, 2009 3:15:13 pm PST #17667 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I've always pronounced SQL as squirrel. In my head.
-t - Nov 06, 2009 3:15:48 pm PST #17668 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
We have sequel servers. In which we run ess-queue-ell. I'm not sure if the sequel server is actually the SQL server and the dbas use both in a single sentence.
Yup, DH uses them interchangeably. I don't think he notices that he switches back and forth.
tommyrot - Nov 06, 2009 3:17:26 pm PST #17669 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Sometimes I notice when I switch. Usually I try to say the letters but often laziness wins out.
sarameg - Nov 06, 2009 3:18:26 pm PST #17670 of 30001
FAQ is fack.
Work is very very self-devised acronym heavy. Some are pronounced like letters, some spoken as words. Half the terms I use, I have no idea what they stand for. And neither does anyone else. Once upon a time, the new employee handbook came with a list of acronyms and what they stood for. They ditched it somewhere around the point it got to 10 single spaced, two-sided pages. It's crackers. They give Quakers a run for the money on acronyms.
tommyrot - Nov 06, 2009 3:19:27 pm PST #17671 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
NASA is still the acronym king, right?
eta: Or is it the military?