▲ 1072 ▼ xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard (imgs.xkcd.com) submitted 7 months ago by xkcdbot@lemmy.world [B] to c/xkcd@lemmy.world 139 comments fedilink hide all child comments xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard Title text: Anyone who is caught counting 'three ... two ... one ... zero ... GO!' will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples. Transcript: Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com Source: https://xkcd.com/3232/ explainxkcd for #3232
[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago (4 children) Eh everyone says "dubya" anyways permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ssladam@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 child) Still, all other letters only clock 1 syllable. I vote we just go ahead and change the standard to "dub". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago But if we do that, we'll need a new alphabet song! (also, since letters [sorta] contain their respective sounds, I suggest "wub") permalink fedilink source parent [–] Ispanico@sh.itjust.works 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) Holy shit, is that why people call george w bush dubya? As a non native English speaker I wouldn't have thought of that in a million years permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 6 months ago Yep! Also, if you aren't familiar with the way words are either stressed or elided in spoken english, you're probably so confused when you hear native speakers talk 😅 We literally don't pronounce most of the sounds in most of the words we say. If you go around pronouncing every syllable of every word you'll sound insane permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ssladam@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 child) Still, all other letters only clock 1 syllable. I vote we just go ahead and change the standard to "dub". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago But if we do that, we'll need a new alphabet song! (also, since letters [sorta] contain their respective sounds, I suggest "wub") permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago But if we do that, we'll need a new alphabet song! (also, since letters [sorta] contain their respective sounds, I suggest "wub") permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ispanico@sh.itjust.works 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) Holy shit, is that why people call george w bush dubya? As a non native English speaker I wouldn't have thought of that in a million years permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 6 months ago Yep! Also, if you aren't familiar with the way words are either stressed or elided in spoken english, you're probably so confused when you hear native speakers talk 😅 We literally don't pronounce most of the sounds in most of the words we say. If you go around pronouncing every syllable of every word you'll sound insane permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 6 months ago Yep! Also, if you aren't familiar with the way words are either stressed or elided in spoken english, you're probably so confused when you hear native speakers talk 😅 We literally don't pronounce most of the sounds in most of the words we say. If you go around pronouncing every syllable of every word you'll sound insane permalink fedilink source parent