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 😄
AI is an initialism since you don’t pronounce AI. NASA would be an acronym because you pronounce the word.
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.
It’s been called a gooey since at least the mid 80s. All you kids get off my lawn.
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.
this is one of those facts i have to struggle to keep to myself to avoid coming off as an insufferable nerd
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.
Is pronouncing LED like an acronym common? I’ve never heard it, and it would take me a while to work out what they’re on about if they’re talking about “lead”
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.
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).
Correct:
- “Sequel”
- Structured Query Language
Incorrect:
- “Squall”
- “Es-queue-el”
The one that people really screw up? PostgreSQL.
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.
Generally English first language speakers say sequel while everyone else spells it out.
I’m the head of IT for my company and it’s S-Q-L and I’m a native speaker.
It’s not a grammatically correct pronunciation at all (which is why it seems like non-native English tends to not say “Sequel”) and even MySQL documentation specifically calls it out and says it’s S-Q-L
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.
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 manager human.”
Edit: on review, it’s less “entitlement”, more “smarmy”. Equally annoying.
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.’
