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[-] [email protected] 112 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

(I understand the joke, please don't explain it)

[-] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

Dreifaches Doppel-Du

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

HTTP Error 400

My favorite joke

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[-] [email protected] 83 points 10 months ago

That's why I say "dub dub dub" it confuses people and I have to explain that it's www which is short for world wide web but I saved a little bit of time by saying dub dub dub......wait a minute......

[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

honestly I think w should be renamed "dub". stupid long-ass name for a single letter

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Yeah dub would bring it back in line with all the other letters, which are single syllable. Get your shit together, W.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

It saves a lot of time once you have established it. You invest time when establishing it and get a fraction of it back once a mentionable amount of people know it

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

If serious, it's because double-you, double-you, double-you (6 syllables) vs world-wide-web (3 syllables). A syllable sort of represents the amount of time it takes to say something.

So it takes twice as long to say www.

If not serious, yes, it's because your German. But then again, German humor isn't really that.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

I wasn’t serious, but thanks for the explanation!
I’m sure it’s helpful for someone

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

In Dutch www is faster. Never understood why one would give a letter a name that consists of 2 parts.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I don't get why w is called double u when it's clearly a double v

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

It's a long story. In short: In Latin script u and v were the same letter "u" but had two pronunciations depending on whether it was being used as a vowel or consonant. But when adapting the alphabet to Germanic languages (including Old English) the same two sounds were from two different letters, so they put two "u"s together to make double u: vv.

The full story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y

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[-] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

In Irish we say "wuh". And "punk" for dot.

Wuh wuh wuh punk lemmy punk world

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

in Germany we say weh and punkt

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I like the Spanish radio commercials like you’ll hear in California:

[…] PUNTO COM!!!

(website dot com and in a booming voice)

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

i've often heard it called dubdubdub

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

All the way home

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

In Dutch it’s whey-whey-whey.

I still remember when companies started mentioning their websites in commercials.
It was one big torrent of whey-whey-wheys.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Same in Russian - it's something like "wehwehweh"

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Dub Dub Dub.

But also, "the web." "Online."

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

I do not pronounce that part of a URL. Who still does that? Why would you need to do that?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Because www.example.com and example.com, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Some people don't know how to properly DNS, and IIRC some smaller DNS services don't support CNAMEing the root.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Here in france, everyone says "3w". Pronouncing it entirely sounds like "Double V, double V, double V" so "3w" sounds like "Trois double V", which funnily enough, is still longer than world wide web!

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Sure, but you sound like an absolute psycho saying "world wide web.MidgetPorn.edu"

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Just pronounce it “wuhwuhwuh”

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Watching old commercials is hilarious. "If YOU would like to see our locations on the world-wide-web, visit our website on your web browser by typing in w, w, w, dot, appliance, dash, direct, dot, com!"

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

My favorite was "The Information Superhighway."

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We could fix this by renaming it the Worbledy Widewibble Webbledywoowoo.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I generally say “werwerwer”.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

But you don't type world wide web. You type www.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

well i sure hate that last picture

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

when visiting my dutch family I noticed how faster "vay vay vay" is, so I started thinking vévévé in french instead of "double v" x3 (btw this is a double u : uu) I've said it out loud a few times by accident and people don't question it. I think we all agree it's a bit silly to pronounce.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Call it WoWaWe

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