Its pronounced "don't touch that!"CurtZHP wrote:I'm trying to figure out how to pronounce the acronym for this one switch on my preamp.
For now, I've been calling it "the Oh-En-Oh-Eff-Eff switch."
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That's a forward slash, dude. I actually had to correct the singer at a concert the other night when he said to go to their website at [something.com] "backslash" [whatever]RoyMatthews wrote:I go with two syllables "SPiD-IF". I refuse to recognize the backslash.
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Sorry dude. Everyone knows that one's pronounced "Tihkpip".ashcat_lt wrote:TCP/IP (pronounced Tee See Pee I Pee)
Now that everyone is on a D'AWW, and acronyms are out of control, we have a new problem. People are making up there own acronyms and not getting them passed by the ASS (Acronym Specialists Society)(pronounced "ass"). ADC, I thought, was Audio to Digital Conversion. Somebody started people saying ADC was Automatic Delay Compensation. Then someone said the new ADC should actually be PDC for Plugin Delay Compensation, which seems like it would pass an ASS inspection to me.
The most important rule in the ASS guidelines is that you can't hi-jack an existing acronym in the same field of interest.
Whatever your complaint about acronyms, just be glad you don't work with the guy that came up with this one (straight out of wikipedia, so it must be true):
"The world's longest initialism, according to the Guinness Book of World Records is NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT. The 56-letter initialism (in Cyrillic) is from the Concise Dictionary of Soviet Terminology and means "The laboratory for shuttering, reinforcement, concrete and ferroconcrete operations for composite-monolithic and monolithic constructions of the Department of the Technology of Building-assembly operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for building mechanization and technical aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR.""
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I thought ADC was Analog Digital Conversion? Either someone at ASS is full of shit, or Ive been the butt of a joke.bplr wrote:ADC, I thought, was Audio to Digital Conversion. Somebody started people saying ADC was Automatic Delay Compensation. Then someone said the new ADC should actually be PDC for Plugin Delay Compensation, which seems like it would pass an ASS inspection to me.ashcat_lt wrote:TCP/IP (pronounced Tee See Pee I Pee)
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oh geez. so that's what he meant by, "Boy, I don't pay you to think!"The Spark wrote:I thought ADC was Analog Digital Conversion? Either someone at ASS is full of shit, or Ive been the butt of a joke.bplr wrote:ADC, I thought, was Audio to Digital Conversion. Somebody started people saying ADC was Automatic Delay Compensation. Then someone said the new ADC should actually be PDC for Plugin Delay Compensation, which seems like it would pass an ASS inspection to me.ashcat_lt wrote:TCP/IP (pronounced Tee See Pee I Pee)
yes, i mean Analog to Digital Conversion.
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bplr wrote: "The world's longest initialism, according to the Guinness Book of World Records is NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT. The 56-letter initialism (in Cyrillic) is from the Concise Dictionary of Soviet Terminology and means "The laboratory for shuttering, reinforcement, concrete and ferroconcrete operations for composite-monolithic and monolithic constructions of the Department of the Technology of Building-assembly operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for building mechanization and technical aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR.""
Leave it to a socialist to come up with something like that!
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I wouldnt sweat it. I just didnt want ASS to be pooping on the people since we all know that ASS can be full of hot wind.bplr wrote:oh geez. so that's what he meant by, "Boy, I don't pay you to think!"The Spark wrote:I thought ADC was Analog Digital Conversion? Either someone at ASS is full of shit, or Ive been the butt of a joke.bplr wrote:ADC, I thought, was Audio to Digital Conversion. Somebody started people saying ADC was Automatic Delay Compensation. Then someone said the new ADC should actually be PDC for Plugin Delay Compensation, which seems like it would pass an ASS inspection to me.ashcat_lt wrote:TCP/IP (pronounced Tee See Pee I Pee)
yes, i mean Analog to Digital Conversion.
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