(I understand the joke, please don’t explain it)
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My favorite joke
Dreifaches Doppel-Du
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In Dutch www is faster. Never understood why one would give a letter a name that consists of 2 parts.
how do you pronounce Y ?
In Swedish I pronounce y as y. It has its own sound and doesn’t sound like another letter, so it can’t be written as a combination of other letters.
In Flanders (at least where I’m at) we usually say I grec, but when doing math or reciting the alphabet, we say IJ.
Üpsilon
Sound like igrek.
it’s two words (“i graeca”)
We say it just like I wrote it, as one word. Although some people use Griekse IJ, which is also two words.
and how would you say xyz ?
XIJZ.
Iks Üpsilon Zett
Usually same as our compound letter “ij”, similar but not quite how you’d prononuce the word “eye”. Less commonly it’s pronounced as “i-grec” (greek i) or “ypsilon”.
i-grec (but English sound for “e” just like in Dutch) is the French way as well.
I don’t get why w is called double u when it’s clearly a double v
It’s a long story. In short: In Latin script u and v were the same letter “u” but had two pronunciations depending on whether it was being used as a vowel or consonant. But when adapting the alphabet to Germanic languages (including Old English) the same two sounds were from two different letters, so they put two "u"s together to make double u: vv.
The full story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y
In some languages (Spanish, for example) it’s double v.
U and V used to be the same letter
Not in Sweden. Veveve.
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well i sure hate that last picture
In Irish we say “wuh”. And “punk” for dot.
Wuh wuh wuh punk lemmy punk world
Sounds like dubstep!
Irish Dubstep
Dublin-step
Back in the day at work we used ‘dub-dub-dub’ for www. (around 2000)
I like the Spanish radio commercials like you’ll hear in California:
[…] PUNTO COM!!!
(website dot com and in a booming voice)
Hahahaha, love it!
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veh written with english pronunciation in mind
Just perform a constant hum: “vvvvvv”
Now I want to listen to come chiptunes.
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But you don’t type world wide web. You type www.
Do you really type www?
I usually even type “https://”. Even when I’m just using a browser and not writing code.
I think it’s probably the case that these days the modern browsers will automatically give you https without having to type it out (and maybe only give you the http site if the https url doesn’t work?)
But there was definitely a time when typing
wikipedia.orginto an address bar would give you anhttp://address.A lot of sites even then would immediately redirect you to an https version, but if you put a whole-ass path in, the request for that path would go over the internet tubes in plaintext before the the redirect came back. Which is roughly no better in many cases than if the site doesn’t even redirect you to an https version.
That’s what “https Everywhere” was for, although yeah not really needed anymore.
Firefox has a setting to force https
No one types www
It’s https//:
Link doesn’t work for some reason…
In Dutch it’s whey-whey-whey.
I still remember when companies started mentioning their websites in commercials.
It was one big torrent of whey-whey-wheys.So the solution is very simple: everyone should become dutch
In Italian it’s “vuvuvu”, ez
that’s my 6th favourite thing about Italy
I speak Dutch but (we, in this region) don’t pronounce the y sound at the end.
Same in Russian - it’s something like “wehwehweh”
Same in German.
Well, In German it’s also grammatically correct
Close to whe in when.
That’s why I say “dub dub dub” it confuses people and I have to explain that it’s www which is short for world wide web but I saved a little bit of time by saying dub dub dub…wait a minute…
honestly I think w should be renamed “dub”. stupid long-ass name for a single letter
Yeah dub would bring it back in line with all the other letters, which are single syllable. Get your shit together, W.
It saves a lot of time once you have established it. You invest time when establishing it and get a fraction of it back once a mentionable amount of people know it
Three-dubs
Pro wrestling fans of ECW support your cause.
I read that is dumb dumb dumb
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Dubya dubya dubya
FUCK no
…Double You Bee
“triple dub”
Trip dubs.
Tr’ubs
6U
Six.
If serious, it’s because double-you, double-you, double-you (6 syllables) vs world-wide-web (3 syllables). A syllable sort of represents the amount of time it takes to say something.
So it takes twice as long to say www.
If not serious, yes, it’s because your German. But then again, German humor isn’t really that.
I wasn’t serious, but thanks for the explanation!
I’m sure it’s helpful for someoneYea, I was surprised a German wouldn’t get it, with English borrowing so much from German.
But thanks for the chuckle!
It was a poor explanation. Double you has 3 syllables so it has nine all up vs 3. So it takes 3 times as long. I don’t think it was about the time but the ease of saying it. World Wide Web is a bit annoying to say
(Happy cake day! )
Yes it is, but why not just say the sound of the letter?
Way-way-way / wee-wee-wee / wuh-wuh-wuh ?
Even the dub-dub-dub someone else suggested would work.
No wonder everyone dropped the
www.from their urls ¯\_(ツ)_/¯I’ve no better answer than “It just isn’t done.” Native English speakers at the very least would not interpret that as indicating the letter, they would interpret it as someone stuttering or what they’re trying to say is stuck on the tip of their tongue.
Hang on. Don’t Germans say it “doobla-veh?”
Nope, that would be the French 🥖
I don’t think it does take 3 x as long to say though, I think they both take about the same amount of time. Double-u is easy to say.
It’s worse! 9 syllables!
Per other poster, dou-ble-you (I didn’t catch that myself)
Haha woah I had to sound it out
Always gotta clap the syllables!
you’re*
Look man English isn’t a language it’s a mistake
wee wee wee
Weeeee3
All the way home
“Dub dub dub”.
Trip dub
It has to be 30 years that I’ve been using this. I might have said the full term a couple times at the start but that quickly ended.
If you skip the “b”, you can speed it up even more with “dudududu” to include the dot.
We could fix this by renaming it the Worbledy Widewibble Webbledywoowoo.
Just pronounce it “wuhwuhwuh”
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