I spent 20 years working as a sys admin, moving to new offices around the globe every few years. No matter which country I worked in, every single sys admin I've ever worked with always pronounced it "sequel." I've never met anyone in real life who spelled out the letters when speaking it.
It's always been an otomotopoea (really fucked the spelling on that) to me. Like, the sound of someone sliding a can across the floor and into a bell. Sluuuuurrrrrrrrrr pink
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pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 136d
I keep reading it as "slurp-ink," personally.
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 136d
Slurp ink
robocall@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 136d
Slur pink
Schmuppes@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 135d
For me, it's "Slurpnik". You'll have to ask Vlad or Igor what it means, I guess.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 135d
Same, I keep imagining it as some variation on ‘beatnik’.
bryndos@fedia.io · 2 pts · 135d
"slurp ink motherfucker" sounds like what an octopus says when you piss it off.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 25 pts · 136d
Is it the same people that pronounce SQL as "sequel"?
baronvonj@piefed.social · 17 pts · 136d
Wait, do you actually say the letters every time? Just think of how many syllables you've wasted in aggregate over the years!
rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 21 pts · 136d
I usually just don't talk, that saves even more syllables
baronvonj@piefed.social · 20 pts · 136d
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 136d
When it's obviously "school?"
aeiou@piefed.social · 5 pts · 136d
you mean it's not 'squeal'?
rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 136d
I think you mean "ass quail"
cobysev@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 135d
I spent 20 years working as a sys admin, moving to new offices around the globe every few years. No matter which country I worked in, every single sys admin I've ever worked with always pronounced it "sequel." I've never met anyone in real life who spelled out the letters when speaking it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 135d
Squeeeeel for me
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 135d
Someone on here the other day said it's actually squirrel
Blemish5236@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 135d
thisfro@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 136d
slrpnk.net mentioned
compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 136d
My first Fediverse instance!
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 136d
I keep accidentally seeing “shipwreck.”
Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 136d
Doesn’t work because only vowels are removed. For slurp neck to work it’d need to be slrpnck. You know, with a C!
tsk.
Shoddy memeing from someone named @NickwithaC@lemmy.world
Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 136d
You mean it's not SLR punk, in reference to the cameras?
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 136d
It's always been "slur punk" for me XD
GoldAxolotl@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 136d
slur punk?
Kenny2999@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 136d
Would listen.
bryndos@fedia.io · 5 pts · 135d
slurp nuke
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 135d
Slurp NK (North Korea)
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 135d
I've been reading it as Slur Punk. Still not as bad as reading CNT-FAI as Cunt Fay.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 134d
I read it like it sounds. Like "Sputnik", but Slrpnk.
robocall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 136d
Slorp ank
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 135d
At first glance my mind always replaces the r with a c and I think we’re talking about the 1998 classic SLC Punk.
30p87@feddit.org · 3 pts · 136d
I always read it as "s-l-r-p- oh fuck it, whatever, what a fucking random ass name is that"
Klear@quokk.au · 2 pts · 136d
Oh! That's what it means!
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 136d
It's always been an otomotopoea (really fucked the spelling on that) to me. Like, the sound of someone sliding a can across the floor and into a bell. Sluuuuurrrrrrrrrr pink
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 136d