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author: Bloch
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 23, 2014, 09:45:04 am
content: First to the moderator pls do move this to the beginners section if that is a better place ?http://codebabes.com/My guess is that it will popular. But better ? maybe they did just nailed it at least for male portion of code wannabes

author: GEuser
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 23, 2014, 10:40:24 am
content: I tried to watch it ,,,, but ,,,,That voice! , I've noticed that sound is completely fake in most , that from down the back of the throat and like a crow sounds when its going arrrk arrrrk ...I've seen on tv a normal sounding sheila from that country start talking quite normal but if its being interviewed or in a discussion with a person that sounds like the video the normal sounding one will slowly start arrk arrking sometimes real quick and sometimes just a word here or a word there until its quite often and both sound like robots swapping machine code to each other .. Total fake imo ...sometimes one can even see them listening to themselves to make sure they have the sound correct HaHaHaHa ..In others like tv cops , one will hear it ark arrrking but then when it cracks the sh_ts or chucks a wobbly a totally different sound comes out mostly higher octave stuff and then it'll calm down and slowly get back into arrk arrk arrking but tuning itself in ..I spent years studying this phenomenon and believe it or not its actual sex based so they think (not female but sex) , spare a thought for poor me watching our tv out here which is probably 70% American ...ARK ARRRK ARRRRK .

author: Rory
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 23, 2014, 11:53:16 am
content: Vocal fry. Look it up.

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 23, 2014, 12:35:05 pm
content: Yeah, I made it as far as "My Sequel". Gah. No. It's three letters. An acronym. Not a word. Three distinct letters, S Q L, not sequel, it's not the follow on to something.Do you pronounce IBM "ibim"? No you don't. So why does anybody think SQL gets any different treatment!

author: rob77
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 23, 2014, 12:51:46 pm
content: Quote from: sleemanj on July 23, 2014, 12:35:05 pmibimthat reminded me of the DooVDe player by fonejacker

author: GEuser
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 23, 2014, 01:06:24 pm
content: Quote from: Rory on July 23, 2014, 11:53:16 amYo I did look it up thanks for the hint , amazing that some are even categorizing it all now , but so far no mention of crows that I looked at , there's even a wiki ..Prof Butcher in thishttp://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/women-using-8216vocal-fry8217-to-sound-more-authoritative-sexy/story-fneuz9ev-1226716000951even suggeststhat people do not know they are doing it , maybe he or she should watch tv and watch them tuning themselves to tune and then watch it spreading to the non-fryers ... like a virus , I have even noticed when some start to mimic it in a discussion that they catch on (or wake up) and deliberately and consciously try keep to normal as if going back , as if something is wrong? , its also catching on out here too , I nearly said something to a checkout girl just the other week as it was so obvious that it was practising and self tuning by ear .. but it would have come over as offensive like "what do you want to sound like a American for , don't you know about them?)Next it'll be that everyone has got a pout! (which incidentally iscopiedfrom the before and around giving birth events in a lot , I got that one figured out too)

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 23, 2014, 01:09:33 pm
content: Microsoft started the "sequel" thing. Others just picked up on it. Yes annoying.

author: dfmischler
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 23, 2014, 03:33:02 pm
content: Quote from: sleemanj on July 23, 2014, 12:35:05 pmActually, I think itwascommonly referred to asSEQUEL by IBMers (who created it) in the very early days. But I generally pronounce it "SQUEAL". You know, the sound that a pig makes

author: Hypernova
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 23, 2014, 03:33:10 pm
content: Militant feminists are going to have a seizure if they see this.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 23, 2014, 04:15:23 pm
content: Quote from: Hypernova on July 23, 2014, 03:33:10 pmConsidering some of the things I've seen some quoted as saying before, maybe that wouldn't be so bad if they seized up.But hey if this woman is happy with her job explaining technology in this way and isn't being exploited or forced into doing it, that's her business and I would hope that any militant feminists would recognize that.

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 23, 2014, 04:16:25 pm
content: Quote from: dfmischler on July 23, 2014, 03:33:02 pmYou might as well just snortI normally pronounce it "SEQUEL" and not "S-Q-L"

author: TheBorg
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 23, 2014, 04:32:22 pm
content: My-S-Q-L.It's not like I say "hateimal" for HTML or "kss" for CSS.

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 23, 2014, 08:40:04 pm
content: S.Q.L. does not pronounce well in English, since it does not fit the pattern of an English word.If we spelled it out phonetically, it would be "escuel", and the stress would fall naturally on the second syllable, as in "esCUel" (natural), rather than the last syllable, "escuEL" (unnatural).On the other hand, "sequel" is an English word, and the stress falls naturally on the first syllable, "SEquel".In English, as in all languages, the tendency is to adjust words so they sound right and fit the pattern of the language. Thus, "Sequel".Any acronym that is pronounceable as a word tends to go that way. For instance, do you say "P.I.N." or "pin"? "S.A.T. or "sat"?

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2014, 12:00:43 am
content: Rockwell Automation has a product called RSSQL that pretty much everyone I've heard pronounces as "Rascal".

author: rs20
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2014, 10:56:32 am
content: Quote from: IanB on July 23, 2014, 08:40:04 pm+1, Sequel rolls off the tongue much more easily than S Q L. On a more basic level, earlier replies seem to work from the axiom that English is a perfectly logical and consistent language, which is a bad start to an argument...

author: Yago
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2014, 03:47:45 pm
content: Quote from: GEuser on July 23, 2014, 01:06:24 pmJen from the UK TV show "IT Crowd" does this vocal fry.Now that I have heard of the affectation, I appreciate the comedy of the show more .Clever sod that Graham Linehan chap is

author: bluejonah
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2014, 06:26:53 pm
content: A) I'm gay (shocker, right) so this really does nothing to me except annoy me.B) Really? You have to sexually exploit women just to freaking learn something? God, what kind of moron is that?! Although, if it were a really cute (but nerdy and not "ripped") guy.... well, I dunno. Yes, reverse sexism.C) I've always pronounced it as My-Sequel. That's what I learned it as. Plus, it just makes sense, I guess. When I hear someone say "My S-q-l" I kinda twitch for some reason. It doesn't matter either way because I understand what you mean. And that's all that matters.

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 01, 2014, 03:12:11 pm
content: Lame video. It compromise heavily on both coding and beauty.

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 01, 2014, 09:47:35 pm
content: IMHO SCSI is the weirdest pronounced acronym: skwoezie. And then try to make some Malaysian computer tech understand what you mean. They pronounce it more like skoesie. Like the Italian word for sorry@Zapta: lame video indeed. She doesn't get naked.

author: Marco
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 01, 2014, 10:28:46 pm
content: Quote from: IanB on July 23, 2014, 08:40:04 pmThat's a strange set of examples to pick ... pin and S.A.Tees. are the norm respectively AFAICT.

author: bluejonah
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: August 01, 2014, 11:14:30 pm
content: I always just say "S.C.S.I" because it sounds weird to say scuzzy or something.

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 02, 2014, 04:11:48 am
content: Skuzzee. How I've always said it. AS well as saytah (SATA) and paytah (PATA.) IDE is just I.D.E

author: FrankenPC
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 02, 2014, 04:48:51 am
content: Quote from: echen1024 on August 02, 2014, 04:11:48 amThat's a good point. All the other acronyms are hit with a dose of lazy. Why not IDE? Iddy? Eyedy?

author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 02, 2014, 04:59:53 am
content: Quote from: echen1024 on July 23, 2014, 04:16:25 pmMy view is, IBM invented SQL (I think), they have the privilege of naming it. Since they call it SEQUEL, that is the name...Quote from: nctnico on August 01, 2014, 09:47:35 pmControl Data Corp (CDC) invented SCSI (so I was told). They call it scut-zee, so it is. They invented it, their privilege.CDC was one of the seven dwarfs (while IBM was snow white) of then. CDC made the Cyber Super Computer (Seymour Cray's work) - before he went off to build the Cray Super Computers.

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 02, 2014, 05:05:00 am
content: It's more ska than sku, think about skull, it's not even close. I don't care what wiki says about sounding like the u in gun or dull. I've always heard it as ska (like the music genre) then zee like the z in zz top.As for SQL is pronounced sequel as in a tv show. As for IBM I always pronounced it as "I've Been Moved"Edit: scut-zee is closer but I've never heard the T so if the T is silent then it will be exactly how I've heard it.

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 02, 2014, 12:39:16 pm
content: I have heard SCSI pronounced "sexy". Though I suppose "i sexy" sounds like some Apple gadget...

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 02, 2014, 05:47:10 pm
content: Quote from: mojo-chan on August 02, 2014, 01:35:24 pmI use Gee U I for that because of GUID (Global Unique IDentifier) which I pronounce goo-id.

author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 02, 2014, 06:07:37 pm
content: GUI, IDE, whatever... They really have nothing to do with learning coding. Like learning mathematics, you sit down, learn the rules, and go at it a bit at a time. It takes effort and it takes practice. There is no short cut around it.Take GUI for example, it teaches nothing about computers. When GUI first came out, a moron can click and "reindex database" or "change primary key", but the user still doesn't understand what they are doing. They think they can manage their MS Access database, but they can't. What GUI ended up doing is GUI(s) make business-users frustrated when they need a "specialist" just so they can add a field to the data entry screen, and all the "specialist" did was to click a few buttons that the junior-associate-assistance with a high school education could have done.Changing the mechanics of doing something doesn't mean you understand how that "something" works.

author: GEuser
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 03, 2014, 01:57:21 pm
content: After 3 generations of vocal fryers (starting from a full on fryer mother , then 2 girl siblings , then those have multiple offspring and all are constantly talking to each other to top up)Ends up sounding like this >or if that is too hard to be real , a more practical real world example >The above are short and all imo of course ....

author: Rory
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 03, 2014, 05:32:14 pm
content: This is more like it...https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_j0KhXH6xLE#t=26

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 03, 2014, 07:00:18 pm
content: Sorry, Mommy got tossed off of Youtube instead of the train...............