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What is your least favourite acronym?
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GUI. Stop sounding it out as gooey it makes me uncomfortable.
You say G-U-I? I'm sorry but I'm on the gooey side on this argument. G-U-I takes too long and sounds weird.
i agree. i am a recent gooey-convert. same with TUI (terminal ui), but not UI.
I've never had to say TUI. I usually just say "termainal" or "command line". UI depends on the context, sometimes "u-i" sometimes "user interface"
a TUI is usually more interactive, such as Vim, and basically a full GUI, but rendered as text.
'command line interface' (CLI) typically means you type out commands and thats it, such as a Bash program or Git or something.
Someone had recently named their newly minted GUI toolkit as "gooey". I was thinking of trying to talk them out of it because imagine the confusing conversations. Then I thought more about my decision and decided to spend my time on more productive tasks.
There is nothing more productive than arguing with people over software names.
Let's bike shed this sucker!
Same. All through school and in University, lecturers and professors called it G.U.I., then when I entered the workforce, managers were saying "gooey", I was so confused, I didn't know what they meant and I couldn't take them seriously when they said it.
Now 15 years later, I still cringe when people say "gooey", I deliberately make an effort to say "G.U.I." in an effort to correct them.
gweee
“gooey”
its either that or soft g and that would be troublesome
I've literally never heard it any other way. O_O