Mispronouncing computer terms is funny :)

[Fritzo]

Just got off the phone with the king of mispronunciation!

He had a problem with his poop3 server not accepting his logan information when using a mo-DEM to connect through the peepee server.

I'm easily amused though

*Edited for minor spelling error*

 

[dandruff]

:laugh:

 

[quizzelsnatch]

wow.

 

[DaTT]

You work at an ISP as a teckky?

 

[lobadobadingdong]

gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

 

[Aftermath]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

"At first I thought, like many fellow scientists, "Surely, Christopher Lloyd is just having fun with us! That's not how you pronounce gigawatt!"

Shortly thereafter, I got a nice laminated sheet from IUPAC with units and prefixes on it. They took special care to point out that giga- (the correct spelling!) was pronounced with the first g as a hard g, and the second, as a soft one! According to my Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (1993) the first (preferred) pronunciation is " 'ji - ge " (as in jiggle) and the alternative pronunciation is " 'gi - ge " (as in giggle)."

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[ohtwell]

I must be a geek, because I can tell what he was trying to say!


: ) Amanda

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

The worst are people who pronounce html as hotmail or use CPU as an abbreviation for computer

 

[DaTT]

Originally posted by: ohtwell
I must be a geek, because I can tell what he was trying to say!


: ) Amanda

Geek.

 

[BW86]

poop3..... :laugh:

 

[Kibbo]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

A jiggabyte is the amount of Brandy you need in Christmas Cake.

Honest.

 

[ultimatebob]

peepee server? What is THAT one?

 

[loic2003]

I like "intraweb superhighway". mmakes me laugh.

We shouldn't though, not everyone is a techy nerd, and we get paid lots more because of this.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

The worst are people who pronounce html as hotmail or use CPU as an abbreviation for computer

umm, the CPU is the computer.

 

[ohtwell]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
peepee server? What is THAT one?

P2P. I can't be certain.


: ) Amanda

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

The worst are people who pronounce html as hotmail or use CPU as an abbreviation for computer

umm, the CPU is the computer.

I see...so when my friend asked to borrow my CPU, he only wanted that part and not the whole laptop?

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

The worst are people who pronounce html as hotmail or use CPU as an abbreviation for computer

umm, the CPU is the computer.

no the cpu is the central processing unit that installs onto the motherboard of said computer, the computer is a culmination of parts consisting of control logic, processing unit, and input and/or output devices.

 

[aplefka]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

The worst are people who pronounce html as hotmail or use CPU as an abbreviation for computer

umm, the CPU is the computer.

Is my sarcasm meter broken or were you being serious?

 

[Wadded Beef]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

The worst are people who pronounce html as hotmail or use CPU as an abbreviation for computer

umm, the CPU is the computer.

think he means people that refer to the entire CASE as the cpu...

edit: and oh yea what's a peepee server? made me giggle!

 

[ohtwell]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

The worst are people who pronounce html as hotmail or use CPU as an abbreviation for computer

umm, the CPU is the computer.

I see...so when my friend asked to borrow my CPU, he only wanted that part and not the whole laptop?

No, he's saying that the guy wanted the whole laptop, not just the processor located inside!


: ) Amanda

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: aplefka

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

The worst are people who pronounce html as hotmail or use CPU as an abbreviation for computer

umm, the CPU is the computer.

Is my sarcasm meter broken or were you being serious?

I'm being serious. You guys are stuck in PC world. But by defintion the "big hunk of metal under the desk" is called a CPU. A processor is also called a CPU.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: aplefka

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

The worst are people who pronounce html as hotmail or use CPU as an abbreviation for computer

umm, the CPU is the computer.

Is my sarcasm meter broken or were you being serious?

I'm being serious. You guys are stuck in PC world. But by defintion the "big hunk of metal under the desk" is called a CPU. A processor is also called a CPU.

no, the big hunk of metal under the desk is called a computer, or a PC (acronym for Personal Computer)

 

[Wadded Beef]

if my name were Charles Perot Uemura could I also be called CPU? then we'd start calling EVERY NOUN cpu, just like the MARKLAR aliens on southpark!!

 

[spidey07]

meh, semantics.

by definition CPU can be used to term the big hunk of metal as it really is the central processing unit. Its rare these days that somebody calls a processor a "cpu", because its not really correct.

 

[Buck Armstrong]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Just got off the phone with the king of mispronounciation!

He had a problem with his poop3 server not accepting his logan information when using a mo-DEM to connect through the peepee server.

I'm easily amused though

My old boss said "mo-DEM" and called his entire box the CPU, but he was far from computer illiterate.

However, my favorites are people who say "Windows Me" instead of M-E, and "pick-a-mickie" for PCMCIA (although I realize its common tech lingo, its still funny).