SATA, ATA, IDE, etc ARE NOT ACRONYMS. They are abbreviations.

[Maximilian]

Originally posted by: CZroe

Originally posted by: Soviet
If its got more than three letters then it should be pronounced like SATA= sat ah but IDE= I.D.E
Probably not the correct way but it still, it works.

That sounds more reasonable, but I wouldn't go by it. Don't forget PCMCIA. "S" is just short for "Serial" so I see no reason why it should change the pronunciation of "ATA".

PCMCIA= Pik im cea
Pikimcea

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: CZroe

Originally posted by: Pariah
There is no definition of whether are not an acronym is pronounceable, it comes down to what the masses adopt. How do you get "skuzzy" out of "SCSI?" Try phonetically pronouncing SCSI, good luck. There's clearly no consensus on what is correct. Who really cares if someone wants to pronounce ATA? I've never heard anyone do it, but I certainly wouldn't pay it any mind if I heard someone do it. Nor would I try to feed them some it's not an acronym, don't pronounce is junk.

Well, for one thing, I had a technology book in an introductory class a few years ago which blatantly said that you are to pronounce absolutely every IT-related acronym (Interpreted by them as any technology letter abbreviation). Hillarity ensued. ATX. CPU. PIO. IRQ. ACPI. MPS. LCD. The thing is, years later in other classes I still saw people doing what that book told them (It was a required class) INCLUDING THE PROFESSORS. It was also one of those books that said the case / chassis was called the CPU, though other classes explictly said to NEVER call it that.

SCSI is accepted. Just like GUI. It pre-dates the "consumer trend" to call it like they read it as the engineers who implemented these technologies and concepts spread this form of reference by word of mouth.

Which further underlines the point that their is no universally accepted gold standard, so why try to pretend like there is?

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

SATA = "Serial A.T.A."
ATA = "A.T.A"
SCSI = "Scuzzy"
PCMCIA = "P.C.M.C.I.A."
GUI = "Gooey" -OR- "G.U.I."
WYSIWYG = "What you see is what you get" abbreviation, not acronym
MHz = "Megahertz"
SQL = "S.Q.L."
NATO = "N?Toe"

I hate when people call the chassis\case a CPU.

*edit*

the ? is a long A, Fusetalk didn't like my character :disgust:

 

[gsellis]

If we should be annoyed at anyone, it would be the folks making Serial Advanced Technology Attachment into an acronym. The fun of acronyms is to make them spoken words. "LASER", "MASER", "RaDAR". Those unimaginative buggers are to blame. They could have called it Advanced Device Inter-Connect Technology. Then we could have Storage Advanced Device Interface Serial Technology.

Those losers...

 

[eastvillager]

If I ever hear somebody try to pronounce SATA instead of saying serial-ATA, or at worst, ess, ay, tee, ay, I'm gonna bust a gut laughing at them, *after* i figure out what the hell they're trying to say.


from the definitions posted, it looks like

A) all acronyms are abbreviations
B) abbreviations can be created as acronyms from the very start, or
C) they can become acronyms by popular useage.



I think SCSI, SQL, and maybe WYSIWYG are examples of C.

SCSI is scuzzy do almost everybody who actually uses SCSI.
SQL goes either way, but have you ever head anybody call sqlnet ess-cue-ell-net? No, it is always sequel-net.

 

[Peter D]

Ok..?

Riddle me this, quiz master, who's gunna sound stupider/nerdier, the guy that says 'My Raptors are in SATA (Say-tuh as you say ) RAID' or the guy that says 'Fnar, look guys at my new 120GB 8MB Cache Seagate S A T A harddrive! *pushes glasses up nose*'

 

[Delta2073]

Originally posted by: Vegetto
Ok..?

Riddle me this, quiz master, who's gunna sound stupider/nerdier, the guy that says 'My Raptors are in SATA (Say-tuh as you say ) RAID' or the guy that says 'Fnar, look guys at my new 120GB 8MB Cache Seagate S A T A harddrive! *pushes glasses up nose*'

Off topic -
fnar! with the bump mapping and pixel shading~!

Damn walmart workers...

~Francisco

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Vegetto
Ok..?

Riddle me this, quiz master, who's gunna sound stupider/nerdier, the guy that says 'My Raptors are in SATA (Say-tuh as you say ) RAID' or the guy that says 'Fnar, look guys at my new 120GB 8MB Cache Seagate S A T A harddrive! *pushes glasses up nose*'

the first guy will sound really stupid, the second guy will sound nerdy. personally I'd rather sound nerdy, especially since I chose to discuss computer hardware anyway.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Ok, I thought maybe your first name was Caesar and your last name started with O.

Here is my contribution to the topic: SCSI = Small Computer System Interface, but if I hear anyone say ess see ess eye instead of "scuzzy," I'm gonna be very surprised.

I believe it's pronounced "sexy".

 

[thorin]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
SATA = "Serial A.T.A."
ATA = "A.T.A."
SCSI = "Scuzzy"

IDE = "I.D.E."

PCMCIA = "P.C.M.C.I.A."

ISA = "I.S.A"

GUI = "Gooey" -OR- "G.U.I."

CLI = "C.L.I."

WYSIWYG = "What you see is what you get" abbreviation, not acronym
MHz = "Megahertz"
SQL = "S.Q.L."
NATO = "N?Toe"

I hate when people call the chassis\case a CPU.

Or when they call it the harddrive. Grrr.... /me sees red...frickin techno-idiots :roll:

Thorin

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: thorin

...

Thorin

I knew I forgot some

I was more concerned about getting the ones I had right though.

 

[nineball9]

Ironically, someone mentioned RAID, which is an abbreviation for Redundant Array of Independent Discs, (or Inexpensive, or Drives) but I've always heard it pronounced as a word.

Years ago, IBM had a mainframe product called NCCF. Logically unpronounceable, but it was actually pronounced nick-if !

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: Vegetto
Ok..?

Riddle me this, quiz master, who's gunna sound stupider/nerdier, the guy that says 'My Raptors are in SATA (Say-tuh as you say ) RAID' or the guy that says 'Fnar, look guys at my new 120GB 8MB Cache Seagate S A T A harddrive! *pushes glasses up nose*'

If you are the alpha-geek, it matters not.

Side note, I pronounce PCMCIA as "PC Card".

Edit - BTW, is N.A.C.A. Duct sounds like 'knock-a' duct, then SATA would be 'sa-ta'. Seems to violate the rules of english to get a long a like in 'say' out of it.

 

[thorin]

JustAnAverageGuy I was just adding to the list .... I agree with everything you had on it.

BTW nineball9 it's I.B.M. The recent trend in the Sr Mgmt of my company would turn N.C.C.F. into N-double C-F ... grrrrrr

Thorin

PS > BTW = B.T.W. or By The Way
DOH
PPS > PS = P.S. or Post Script
DOH
PPPS > PPS = P.P.S. or Post Post Script
DOH
...................................... :roll:

 

[gsellis]

DOH = Dumb Old Homer?

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
SATA = "Serial A.T.A."
ATA = "A.T.A"
SCSI = "Scuzzy"
PCMCIA = "P.C.M.C.I.A."
GUI = "Gooey" -OR- "G.U.I."
WYSIWYG = "What you see is what you get" abbreviation, not acronym
MHz = "Megahertz"
SQL = "S.Q.L."
NATO = "N?Toe"

I hate when people call the chassis\case a CPU.

*edit*

the ? is a long A, Fusetalk didn't like my character :disgust:

I agree with these terms 100% though I ussually say SATA like S.A.T.A but Serial A.T.A is acceptable to me.

 

[NightCrawler]

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