Guess that settles the debate, we got to pronounce it “sequel” then to optimally match syllables
Uuugghhh noooo! Ess Kyoo Ell!! ESS KYOO ELL!!! brandishes flaming pitchfork!
Squirrel works too though.
The Australian pronunciation works… “squi-rell”. Common American one is somehow just one syllable, “Skwurl”
How do you pronounce Smurf?
I’m not Australian.
Yes but he serves a different community
Sequel to what?
The only people I know who actually call it ess queue ell are either too new to know the “sequel” pronunciation, or the type of person you generally smell before you see.
I say ess cue ell for the sake of uniformity because it’s not Mysequel nor Postgresequel and the language changed from Sequel to the acronym SQL in the 70s so not really in the “too new” ballpark anymore.
I think those make sense as deviations. I’ve heard “my sequel” but you’re absolutely right about postgresql.
The name is kinda irrelevant like hard vs soft g in gif. People know what you mean when you say either.
But in that same vein, the creator of the “graphics interchange format” says the pronunciation is soft g, but basically everyone says hard g… So “official” pronunciation is kinda irrelevant.
I don’t judge anyone who uses whichever term they want, but I’ve just noticed the general trend in my smallish interaction bubble.
Don’t start the gif war again.
Here in Germany everyone I know pronounces the letters individually – as German letters that is, which means the Q is pronounced “coo” rather than “cue”. I don’t mind it, it’s not quite as clunky as in English.
I do say sequel when speaking English though.
I’m neither, I refuse to pronounce acronyms if it doesn’t make sense to do so.
Same thing with ‘gooey’ for GUI, except I hate that even more because that straight up elicits feelings of disgust, I don’t want anything gooey anywhere near any electronics
I’ve literally never heard GUI said as “gee ewe eye” before.
You could just say UI, avoids the gooey phobia and sounds less weird than g u i.
dammit bobby tables is on the naughty list again
wait until it hits little bobby tables…
He drops when you are sleeping. He drops when you’re awake.
Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum A new born King to see, pa rum pum pum pum Our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum To lay before the King, pa rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,
So to honor Him, pa rum pum pum pum, When we come.
Little Bobby, pa rum pum pum pum I am a poor boy too, pa rum pum pum pum I have no gift to bring, pa rum pum pum pum That’s fit to give the King, pa rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,
Shall I play for you, pa rum pum pum pum, On my unsanitized database inputs?
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I can’t be the only one disappointed by the lack of an order by clause after being told the list was being sorted (twice!)…
Query OK, 0 rows affected
Can anyone recommend a cheap receipt printer that takes pictures from a pc or phone? I want to print mtg tokens on the fly.
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Weird that we never consider that for retail workers though…
Pencil
Gameboy Pocket. Gameboy Camera. Gameboy Printer.
Both the perfect balance of “nostalgia” and “ridiculous”.
I was reading that to the tune of the chorus of The Distance by Cake. It worked until the last line.
The beginning maps perfectly to “The Distance” by Cake and I was singing along to that tune as I read.
Cut to Mrs Claus baking a spice cake:
She’s all alone, all alone, in her time of spice
He sees you when you’re bashing
He’s hacked your VPN
He knows you’re not in the sudoers file
So he’ll report your ass again
I’ll be damned if that’s not the most relevant xkcd that I’ve ever seen.
Love it keep em coming
I started this in my head sounding like the singer from Cake.