(I understand the joke, please don't explain it)
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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
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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 someone
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It's worse! 9 syllables!
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In Dutch www is faster. Never understood why one would give a letter a name that consists of 2 parts.
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
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In Irish we say "wuh". And "punk" for dot.
Wuh wuh wuh punk lemmy punk world
I like the Spanish radio commercials like you’ll hear in California:
[…] PUNTO COM!!!
(website dot com and in a booming voice)
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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.
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Dub Dub Dub.
But also, "the web." "Online."
"hexa-u"
I do not pronounce that part of a URL. Who still does that? Why would you need to do that?
Because www.example.com and example.com, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.
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Here in france, everyone says "3w". Pronouncing it entirely sounds like "Double V, double V, double V" so "3w" sounds like "Trois double V", which funnily enough, is still longer than world wide web!
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Sure, but you sound like an absolute psycho saying "world wide web.MidgetPorn.edu"
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Watching old commercials is hilarious. "If YOU would like to see our locations on the world-wide-web, visit our website on your web browser by typing in w, w, w, dot, appliance, dash, direct, dot, com!"
My favorite was "The Information Superhighway."
It sounds too complicated for me. Probably intended for more advanced users.
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We could fix this by renaming it the Worbledy Widewibble Webbledywoowoo.
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well i sure hate that last picture
I generally say “werwerwer”.
when visiting my dutch family I noticed how faster "vay vay vay" is, so I started thinking vévévé in french instead of "double v" x3 (btw this is a double u : uu) I've said it out loud a few times by accident and people don't question it. I think we all agree it's a bit silly to pronounce.
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