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[–] [email protected] 112 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago

Dreifaches Doppel-Du

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

HTTP Error 400

My favorite joke

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 5 months ago (8 children)

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 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 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 5 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (7 children)

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 5 months ago (7 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

It's worse! 9 syllables!

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 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] 8 points 5 months ago (11 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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

Wuh wuh wuh punk lemmy punk world

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

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

[…] PUNTO COM!!!

(website dot com and in a booming voice)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

in Germany we say weh and punkt

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)

i've often heard it called dubdubdub

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

All the way home

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (8 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Dub Dub Dub.

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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 5 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 5 months ago (4 children)

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 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd like to know what scholarships are available for that.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just pronounce it “wuhwuhwuh”

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Just perform a constant hum: "vvvvvv"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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 5 months ago

My favorite was "The Information Superhighway."

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (6 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

well i sure hate that last picture

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I generally say “werwerwer”.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Call it WoWaWe

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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