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kjpye:

--- Quote from: pdenisowski on December 22, 2022, 09:46:55 am ---and one is even read in "mathspeak" (I2C - i-squared-c).

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which is of course the "correct" pronunciation. Its the spelling which is wrong. The original spelling was I²C, but people were using systems which were incapable of representing that, or were incapable of typing it, so it became corrupted to I2C; at least enough of the origin was remembered to keep the "i-squared-c" pronunciation.
tooki:

--- Quote from: eti on December 22, 2022, 08:05:20 am ---
--- Quote from: tooki on December 22, 2022, 07:54:43 am ---I just made myself chuckle by wondering if anyone ever pronounced IBM as “ibbum” or something. :P

A funny, now largely obsolete acronym, is SCSI: only noobs pronounce it “ess see ess eye”. Likely apocryphally, some people early on suggested pronouncing it “sexy”. But the pronunciation that stuck, not only in English but also in many other languages, was “scuzzy”.

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Well done for teaching the world the “correct” way to pronounce an acronym. lol.

Acronyms are, by their very definition, a contraction of a description into its initial letters to avoid tediously speaking out the entire description ; there is no “correct” way to pronounce them, they aren’t meant to be pronounced. To say what you’ve said is to say “that’s the incorrect pronunciation of that slang” - in essence, it’s a matter of choice whether one creates a phonetic analogue of said acronym so it rolls of the tongue more easily, or whether they formally say “Ess See Ess Eye” <——  (phonetically worded for clarity).

One might even say that formally pronounced, letter by letter, is more correct than the “slang” equivalent of forming these contractions back into words, since there’s only marketing people who sometimes create pronounced acronyms for the same reason anyone else does; to make them memorable (and profitable, in their particular case.)

“NICAM” is an example of this, but even then, that doesn’t mean it’s “right”, and that any other spoken version of “NICAM” letter by letter is, therefore, “wrong”, it’s just what happened to stick.

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I never said “right” or “wrong”. I said only noobs spell it out, which isn’t the same thing. Only noobs spell it out because a) they haven’t learned the common pronunciation, and b) haven’t yet gotten tired of how much longer spelling it out is. (“ess see ess eye” is four syllables, “scuzzy” is two.)
tooki:

--- Quote from: pdenisowski on December 22, 2022, 09:46:55 am ---I wonder which came first, SCSI or SCPI ("skippy")? 

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SCSI was first, standardized in 1986. SCPI was released in 1990, by which point SCSI was already widespread in UNIX workstations, Macs, and high end PCs.
pdenisowski:

--- Quote from: tooki on December 22, 2022, 10:15:44 am ---
--- Quote from: pdenisowski on December 22, 2022, 09:46:55 am ---I wonder which came first, SCSI or SCPI ("skippy")? 

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SCSI was first, standardized in 1986. SCPI was released in 1990, by which point SCSI was already widespread in UNIX workstations, Macs, and high end PCs.

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I actually built a PC (from scrap parts) that had SCSI drives and a GPIB interface and I used it to control instruments via SCPI :) 

Pity that FDDI ("fiddy") was already dead at that point, otherwise I might have used that for the LAN connection - way faster than Token Ring :)
AndyBeez:
I remember a meeting where a Canadian dude was going on and on about the need to implement sequel methodologies. After an hour we realised he was talking about S-Q-L. MySQL to be accurate. Yep, done that.

As for Rijndael Ecryption, just accept yanks are going to call it rain doll hashing.

Re Kicad; is it Kye-Cad or Key-Cad? :box:FIGHT
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