Posted January 1 Recently I saw a video where Linux had a segmentation fault when he found out that dan pronounces .exe like ".exe" and pronounces .ini like ".ini" (I've pronounced ini like that too and never thought about it either) I've spent some time thinking about getting in touch to see what you think about GUI. Is it pronounced GUI or GUI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 Can you give phonetic spellings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 9 minutes ago, NubeBuster said: Is it pronounced GUI or GUI? Yes...? Gooey. CPU: Intel i7 6700k | Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170x Gaming 5 | RAM: 2x16GB 3000MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX | GPU: Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080ti | PSU: Corsair RM750x (2018) | Case: BeQuiet SilentBase 800 | Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34 eSports | SSD: Samsung 970 Evo 500GB + Samsung 840 500GB + Crucial MX500 2TB | Monitor: Acer Predator XB271HU + Samsung BX2450 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 25 minutes ago, NubeBuster said: Is it pronounced GUI or GUI? As was once explained to me, A G-U-I is what happens when you get drunk and play Mario Kart 64. A "gooey" is a graphical user interface. I enjoy buying junk and sinking more money than it's worth into it to make it less junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 4 minutes ago, aisle9 said: As was once explained to me, A G-U-I is what happens when you get drunk and play Mario Kart 64. A "gooey" is a graphical user interface. Whoever explained that doesn't understand how acronyms work. It's Gee You Eye. Or however you want to say it as long as your meaning comes across "Do what makes the experience better" - in regards to PCs and Life itself. Onyx : AMD Ryzen 7 7800x3d / MSI 6900xt Gaming X Trio / Gigabyte B650 AORUS Pro AX / G. Skill Flare X5 6000CL36 32GB / Samsung 980 1TB x3 / Super Flower Leadex V Platinum Pro 850 / EK-AIO 360 Basic / Fractal Design North XL (black mesh) / AOC AGON 35" 3440x1440 100Hz / Mackie CR5BT / Corsair Virtuoso SE / Cherry MX Board 3.0 / Logitech G502 7800X3D - PBO -30 all cores, 4.90GHz all core, 5.05GHz single core, 18286 C23 multi, 1779 C23 single Emma : i9 9900K @5.1Ghz - Gigabyte AORUS 1080Ti - Gigabyte AORUS Z370 Gaming 5 - G. Skill Ripjaws V 32GB 3200CL16 - 750 EVO 512GB + 2x 860 EVO 1TB (RAID0) - EVGA SuperNova 650 P2 - Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate 360mm - Fractal Design Define R6 - TP-Link AC1900 PCIe Wifi Raven: AMD Ryzen 5 5600x3d - ASRock B550M Pro4 - G. Skill Ripjaws V 16GB 3200Mhz - XFX Radeon RX6650XT - Samsung 980 1TB + Crucial MX500 1TB - TP-Link AC600 USB Wifi - Gigabyte GP-P450B PSU - Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L - Samsung 27" 1080p Plex : AMD Ryzen 5 5600 - Gigabyte B550M AORUS Elite AX - G. Skill Ripjaws V 16GB 2400Mhz - MSI 1050Ti 4GB - Crucial P3 Plus 500GB + WD Red NAS 4TBx2 - TP-Link AC1200 PCIe Wifi - EVGA SuperNova 650 P2 - ASUS Prime AP201 - Spectre 24" 1080p Steam Deck 512GB OLED OnePlus: OnePlus 11 5G - 16GB RAM, 256GB NAND, Eternal Green OnePlus Buds Pro 2 - Eternal Green Other Tech: - 2021 Volvo S60 Recharge T8 Polestar Engineered - 415hp/495tq 2.0L 4cyl. turbocharged, supercharged and electrified. - Lenovo 720S Touch 15.6" - i7 7700HQ, 16GB RAM 2400MHz, 512GB NVMe SSD, 1050Ti, 4K touchscreen - MSI GF62 15.6" - i7 7700HQ, 16GB RAM 2400 MHz, 256GB NVMe SSD + 1TB 7200rpm HDD, 1050Ti - Ubiquiti Amplifi HD mesh wifi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 Author 7 minutes ago, aisle9 said: As was once explained to me, A G-U-I is what happens when you get drunk and play Mario Kart 64. A "gooey" is a graphical user interface. But then why is CEO pronounced C. E. O. and not seeyo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 1 minute ago, NubeBuster said: But then why is CEO pronounced C. E. O. and not seeyo But then why is the National Aeronautics and Space Association said as "nasa" and not N-A-S-A? Because words are pronounced however people agree that they're pronounced and everyone understands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 6 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said: But then why is the National Aeronautics and Space Association said as "nasa" and not N-A-S-A? Because words are pronounced however people agree that they're pronounced and everyone understands. Because Americans are illiterate? Router: Intel N100 (pfSense) WiFi6: Zyxel NWA210AX (1.7Gbit peak at 160Mhz) WiFi5: Ubiquiti NanoHD OpenWRT (~500Mbit at 80Mhz) Switches: Netgear MS510TXUP, MS510TXPP, GS110EMX ISPs: Zen Full Fibre 900 (~930Mbit down, 115Mbit up) + Three 5G (~800Mbit down, 115Mbit up) Upgrading Laptop/Desktop CNVIo WiFi 5 cards to PCIe WiFi6e/7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 11 minutes ago, NubeBuster said: But then why is CEO pronounced C. E. O. and not seeyo Why is .GIF pronounced Gif/Jif and not Dot Gee Eye Eff? CPU: Intel i7 6700k | Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170x Gaming 5 | RAM: 2x16GB 3000MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX | GPU: Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080ti | PSU: Corsair RM750x (2018) | Case: BeQuiet SilentBase 800 | Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34 eSports | SSD: Samsung 970 Evo 500GB + Samsung 840 500GB + Crucial MX500 2TB | Monitor: Acer Predator XB271HU + Samsung BX2450 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 Author 29 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said: Because Americans are illiterate? Bro stop hating. This is a fun thread. For gags and giggles. BTW: Ya'll's opinions don't matter, its pronounced GUI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 I know it's actually pronounced gooey, but I still say G U I Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 Author 1 minute ago, Lunar River said: I know it's actually pronounced gooey, but I still say G U I It's pronounced GUI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 I pronounce it similary to how I pronounce GIF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 I have always pronounced most file extensions by listing their letters. .ini eye N eye .exe ee EX ee One old one that I used to say like a word was .bat as in AUTOEXEC.BAT "bat" Another is .sys I would say siss or cis like that. GUI I would always say Gee You Eye. WYSIWYG (What you See Is What You Get) as in how MS Word and similar do page editing. Is supposed prounced WhizzyWig. It's not a real big deal to edit docs that way anymore so no one really discusses it. Late 80's and early 90's a WYSIWYG document editor was a big deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 We're doing a second one of these threads? Okay... GUI - "gooey" SCSI - "scuzzy" INI - "innie" These are all read as their individual letters: DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, EXE I sold my soul for ProSupport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 2 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said: We're doing a second one of these threads? Okay... GUI - "gooey" SCSI - "scuzzy" INI - "innie" These are all read as their individual letters: DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, EXE Hmmm, I think I used "Ek-see" for EXE a few times. There is approximately 99% chance I edited my post Refresh before you reply __________________________________________ ENGLISH IS NOT MY NATIVE LANGUAGE, NOT EVEN 2ND LANGUAGE. PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR ANY CONFUSION AND/OR MISUNDERSTANDING THAT MAY HAPPEN BECAUSE OF IT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 9 hours ago, NubeBuster said: It's pronounced GUI Both are equally valid. Even in scenarios like NASA, saying the letters individually isn't wrong. Just unusual. There is no objective right or wrong. Even in scenarios where something goes against the English language(where within that scope, it would be objectively wrong), it's still subjective because people had to create those rules, and so created it to their personal views. "It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brain falls out." - Carl Sagan. "I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" - Edward I. Koch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 12 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said: Because Americans are illiterate? I would be offended if I could read this I'm sure!! Current Network Layout: Current Build Log/PC: Prior Build Log/PC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 1 GUI, GUI, gooey... only one way to pronounce that: GRAFISCHE BENUTZEROBERFLÄCHE *cough* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 2 Both. When I'm with people who have experience programming or work with computers professionally, like those in my university classes or in my cybersecurity research group, we usually pronounce it gooey. When I'm around people who don't, we always say the initials. Computer engineering grad student, machine learning researcher, and hobbyist embedded systems developer Daily Driver: CPU: Ryzen 7 4800H | GPU: RTX 2060 | RAM: 16GB DDR4 3200MHz C16 Gaming PC: CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X | GPU: EVGA RTX 2080Ti | RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200MHz C16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 2 On 1/1/2024 at 8:58 AM, Godlygamer23 said: Both are equally valid. Even in scenarios like NASA, saying the letters individually isn't wrong. Just unusual. Then there are cultural variations and reasons we pronounce one acronym and not the other. We tend to pronounce those that sound like words. No one calls a .pdf a Peh Diff File. The key is to speak in a way that people will understand you. Right? These things are cultural and vary with time and place, in the midwest, it has been my experience that we tend to pronounce every single acronym as a word. At least sometimes. Like we dont say USA as OoohSa but 100% of everyone says NahSa. (In a video game it's totally believable that if we were the New United States we'd say NewSa). Online I've seen and used US to mean both "us" and US. Like this is a broader cultural thing we do that most people in most places don't seem to. Even outside technical areas. We don't say A.T.A.C.M.S. or Attack M.S. we say Attack E'ms. At least when Pentagon people and Congresspeople debating discuss it we call it that. The most cutest one I think of. The BMEWS Ballistic Missile early Warning System. Everyone who speaks of it calls it Be Mews or Bemuse. * The updated version of it is called PAVE PAWS Pronounced pave Paws. *First time I heard of this was in a movie that was a big part of the reason I ever got interested in computers back in the 1980's. Every acronym is a word. NORAD is NorRad,WOPR is Whopper, DEFCON is Def Con etc. At least the real life ones NORAD and DEFCON are said like words even in every day speech. On 1/1/2024 at 8:58 AM, Godlygamer23 said: There is no objective right or wrong. Even in scenarios where something goes against the English language(where within that scope, it would be objectively wrong), it's still subjective because people had to create those rules, and so created it to their personal views. This could be a regional thing and I could be misled since Hollywood and broadcast tended to word things and say things with a "midwestern" "neutral" accent. Which tends to make us midwestern, US people think that our way of speaking is "correct". At one point in time a so called Trans Atlantic accent was considered correct. One invented for the "high society" of the east coast, and was spoken by FDR. Yet feel completely out of favor in the time of Truman and Eisenhower. Perhaps hearing speeches from people with a Missouri and then a Kansas accent, they were better understood than F.D.R. Just a guess. This is a long winded way of saying that there are correct ways to pronounce these acronyms like .gif . exe .ini and .pdf file. What determines they are correct is if people understand what you are saying. If what you say is technically correct but no one understands you then are you really correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 2 Gooey for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 2 gooey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 2 goooweee!!! in a southern accent Current Network Layout: Current Build Log/PC: Prior Build Log/PC: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted January 3 On 12/31/2023 at 8:31 PM, Spotty said: Why is .GIF pronounced Gif/Jif and not Dot Gee Eye Eff? Why is Jesus pronounced "Gee-Jus" by Americans, but "Hey-Zeus" by Latin Americans? There are certain letters that have different pronunciations in different languages. So the "Gif" / "Jif" thing is entirely understandable, because J tends to be "Jay" and G tends to be "Gee" as English natives pronounce them. But is one more correct than the other? "Gif" as in "Gift" is the correct pronunciation going by english rules if it was a word and not an acronym. Acronym's when all uppercase, which is what GIF and JPG would have been back in the Windows 3.1 era when Netscape and Mosaic came out. Everyone I know would say GIF like they were saying GIFT without the T. Every file extension, if we are being literal idiots, should be pronounced as though they are acronyms. Gee-Eye-Eff. ZIP and RAR files are pronounced "Zip" and "Rawr" files. If there is a vowel as the second letter in an acronym, then it makes sense to pronounce the entire acronym as though it's a word. ARC = Ark AVI = Ay-Vee-Eye BAT = Bat{ch} file* BAS = Bass (pronounced like "bass" as in fish, and not "base" as in BASIC) CAB = Cab file CSV = See Ess Vee DOC = Dock (usually "Microsoft Word", but other word processor users would call wordstar and word perfect "documents" even though they would not end in DOC) DLL = De eL eL EXE = E-EX-E* HTML = Ach-Tee-Em-EL JAR = Jar MID = Mid{i}* MOV = Movie or MOV (Em-Oh-Vee) MP3/MP4 = Em Pee three // Em Pee Four PDF = Pee Dee Eff XLS = eXceL* (nobody calls these Ex-El-Ess files, they see the XL and call it "Excel") PPT = PowerPoint (Nobody calls it "PeePeeTee") SWF = Swiff TXT = TeXT * WAV = Wave or "Wa-vu" * These file types are so old that people just people tend to just call them what they are, and never the acronym. Like there will never be any consistency, so negging people about it, like they are wrong is just going to upset them when it turns out there is no correct, nor ever been a correct way to pronounce file extensions. We just continue to use them because three-letter extensions are a legacy of MS DOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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