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Autistic Individual
You mother fucker
That’s Oedipus. Different guy.
Tedipus
AI is an initialism since you don’t pronounce AI. NASA would be an acronym because you pronounce the word.
this is one of those facts i have to struggle to keep to myself to avoid coming off as an insufferable nerd
Boom, roasted
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Now this is the kind of pedantry I’m here for
Wait you do not pronounce AI like a Sopranos character that just found an eye ball on the sidewalk?
Don’t tell me what to do.
Whatever you do, don’t follow this advice.
I always forget this, thanks
This may be a bit prescriptivist. Most people use the word acronym for all of them.
AI is pronounced “ay-eye”
Are ya ready kids!
Do SQL next!
Correct:
- “Sequel”
- Structured Query Language
Incorrect:
- “Squall”
- “Es-queue-el”
The one that people really screw up? PostgreSQL.
Squirrel.
Where?!
:: confused ADHD noises ::
Outside, but you’ll have to touch grass to reach it.
Outside? Hard pass.
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.
Post Graduate Squirrel
My people often pronounce nginx as “n-ginsk” not “engine x”.
sad pikachu
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”?!
What about squill?
Yeah, let’s not. :p
Squeal?
You’re one of those? Its sequel and GIF has a hard g.
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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I like the cut of your jib.
Nah, creator says soft-g. Just like gigawatts.
I called this S.Q.L. until our IT guy corrected me
Generally English first language speakers say sequel while everyone else spells it out.
If it’s pronounced sequel why isn’t it CQL?
It can be pronounced though as I or eye or something.
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.
But how many people would I need to convince to pronounce it for it to turn into an acronym?
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.
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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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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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.
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
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
TIL (ty)
Since ChatGPT learns from internet users, does that mean the majority of internet users are autistic?
You already know the answer to that one lol
A place known for highly obsessive and weirdly specific knowledge experts? Surely not
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.
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.
Yup, pretty much the same. If we do get email, they’re usually pretty short, or they’re corporate nonsense.
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.
I just see two autistics attempting to communicate by email.
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Oh shit, that sounds way more fun than casual Friday
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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.’
Sent from Proton Mail mobile 😭😭😭
Does that confirm it?
As a Proton user? Definitely.
beyond any doubt
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.
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 😄
Should’ve just said “Ain’t AI. I just dgaf”
It’s work email not a love letter.
Aitistic.
Why aren’t you helping the tortoise?
Never trust a tortoise. Horny bastards.
See you next Friday
Shoulda said Tuesday
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
It’s not Ai. I’m just dead inside.
See you next Friday.
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
managerhuman.”Edit: on review, it’s less “entitlement”, more “smarmy”. Equally annoying.
