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Mr.Mofu @lemmy.blahaj.zone

7mo ago

Do people really pronounce it this way...?

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I've always pronounced it Ass-key
- Count me amongst the Ass-keyers.
  
  Welcome to the fold. First rule of 🍑 🔑: claim territory, and keep the isekai clan off our turf.
  They give you trouble, you call me, captchisce? 🤌
- I, too, am an ass-key man
  
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- Yup, Japan says it's ass-key.
- That's the only way I've ever heard it pronounced in actual speech. Of course, the only times I have heard people talking about it IRL is in CS classes and the like. I don't know many tech nerds IRL to have conversations about computer standards with.

I say ass key

ASCII a stupid question and you get a stupid ANSI
- ASCII a stupid question
  if you’re ISO 8859-1
  a stupid ANSI

The joke is that 'isekai' in Japanese translates to "another world" in English. 1985 was truly another world, as anyone who was there might attest.

You sure it wasn't IBM time travellers from 1985 sent her to ebcdic you?
- Lemmy is the only place I've seen EBCDIC referenced, other than the college class that introduced me to it.
  Lemmy is for sure the only place where I've seen a JOKE about it. Nerd.
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  I worked for a credit bureau for a while and a product we had used a mainframe for billing customers. So the billing file was in EBCDIC.
  
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isnt it a joke ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isekai,
Ace-Qii as french, however,

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Quick, I need an American. How do you guys pronounce 'isekai'? Going off the correct Japanese pronunciation this post does not make any sense. These things aren't even close in the way I say them.
- ih-seh-kai, and ASCII like ass-key. They aren't close, to me.
  
  That's ass-sea, you Neanderthal!
  It's much funnier that way, as any right thinking human knows ;)
- Ee-sik-kai and ass key. I bet I'm double wrong but less wrong than OOP. There not close.
- i usually would hear EE-seh-kai or EE-say-kai, given that its basically I and Sekai(meaning world in japanese) put together. so how you pronounce the latter should depend on how you pronounce the word Sekai
- We don’t. We make you speak American, like god intended.

It seems more rikely, if hit by an IBM truck in 1985 that he would be ebcdic'd to Seattle.

Someone once told me that JWT is pronounced "jot", so I do. People call me a lunatic for it, but I still do.
- It's missing an O sound, that's why you're a psycho
  Please don't kill anyone whose net worth is <= 100m
  
  Maybe he's Welsh.
- For me it will always be the James Web(b) Token.
- Jowt Jawt Juwt Jiwt Jewt
- I'm always discombobulated by JWT because I keep thinking it's some kind of Java web technology.
- How is it pronounced
  
  Jot. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7519#section-1
  The suggested pronunciation of JWT is the same as the English word "jot".
  
  Jay-son web token.
- jwit when I am in a good mood, jwat when I am not.

Even in japanese it's like asukii
- Dai asukii

I had lived in Japan and can speak pretty good Japanese. I can say that this is just straight up wrong. LOL where does one even get this info
- gaikokujin AMIRITE

One can find little quips like this in Usenet archives:
Donkey Button == Ass Key == ASCII
https://www.rocksolidbbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=8199&group=alt.folklore.computers#8199

I've also heard "A S C I 2" which seems really weird.

i pronunce iy AS CEE (c as in the first on ein the word "cicada") and EE SEH KAY (a as in bat, the "seh" part the e is like in net (thats why i put the h))
idk thats just how we pronounce it in spain

Ahs-see. The hard C following a vowel and preceding a long vowel makes "ck" seem wrong to me.
- So, "Assy"?
  
  More like asSY

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