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[-] Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de 112 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

(I understand the joke, please don't explain it)

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 28 points 4 months ago

Dreifaches Doppel-Du

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

HTTP Error 400

My favorite joke

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[-] aninnymoose@lemm.ee 83 points 4 months ago

That's why I say "dub dub dub" it confuses people and I have to explain that it's www which is short for world wide web but I saved a little bit of time by saying dub dub dub......wait a minute......

[-] fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 4 months ago

honestly I think w should be renamed "dub". stupid long-ass name for a single letter

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

Yeah dub would bring it back in line with all the other letters, which are single syllable. Get your shit together, W.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 months ago

It saves a lot of time once you have established it. You invest time when establishing it and get a fraction of it back once a mentionable amount of people know it

[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 7 points 4 months ago
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[-] udon@lemmy.world 49 points 4 months ago
[-] Aux@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 4 months ago

Pretty much in every language but English.

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[-] paperemail@links.rocks 46 points 4 months ago
[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

If serious, it's because double-you, double-you, double-you (6 syllables) vs world-wide-web (3 syllables). A syllable sort of represents the amount of time it takes to say something.

So it takes twice as long to say www.

If not serious, yes, it's because your German. But then again, German humor isn't really that.

[-] paperemail@links.rocks 13 points 4 months ago

I wasn’t serious, but thanks for the explanation!
I’m sure it’s helpful for someone

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[-] LordTrychon@startrek.website 7 points 4 months ago

It's worse! 9 syllables!

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[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 37 points 4 months ago

In Dutch www is faster. Never understood why one would give a letter a name that consists of 2 parts.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 11 points 4 months ago

I don't get why w is called double u when it's clearly a double v

[-] __dev@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

It's a long story. In short: In Latin script u and v were the same letter "u" but had two pronunciations depending on whether it was being used as a vowel or consonant. But when adapting the alphabet to Germanic languages (including Old English) the same two sounds were from two different letters, so they put two "u"s together to make double u: vv.

The full story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg2j7mZ9-2Y

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[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 8 points 4 months ago
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[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 32 points 4 months ago

In Irish we say "wuh". And "punk" for dot.

Wuh wuh wuh punk lemmy punk world

[-] Lommy@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago
[-] en1gma@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago
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[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

I like the Spanish radio commercials like you’ll hear in California:

[…] PUNTO COM!!!

(website dot com and in a booming voice)

[-] 0laura@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

in Germany we say weh and punkt

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[-] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

i've often heard it called dubdubdub

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 23 points 4 months ago
[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

All the way home

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[-] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 months ago

In Dutch it’s whey-whey-whey.

I still remember when companies started mentioning their websites in commercials.
It was one big torrent of whey-whey-wheys.

[-] toofpic@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Same in Russian - it's something like "wehwehweh"

[-] Norgur@fedia.io 9 points 4 months ago
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[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago
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[-] aulin@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago
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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 4 months ago

Dub Dub Dub.

But also, "the web." "Online."

[-] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 months ago
[-] Creddit@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

I do not pronounce that part of a URL. Who still does that? Why would you need to do that?

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 14 points 4 months ago

Because www.example.com and example.com, while the same website nearly all of the time, are technically different and could point to different places.

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[-] helloyanis@jlai.lu 13 points 4 months ago

Here in france, everyone says "3w". Pronouncing it entirely sounds like "Double V, double V, double V" so "3w" sounds like "Trois double V", which funnily enough, is still longer than world wide web!

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

We could fix this by renaming it the Worbledy Widewibble Webbledywoowoo.

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 11 points 4 months ago

Sure, but you sound like an absolute psycho saying "world wide web.MidgetPorn.edu"

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[-] Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 4 months ago

Watching old commercials is hilarious. "If YOU would like to see our locations on the world-wide-web, visit our website on your web browser by typing in w, w, w, dot, appliance, dash, direct, dot, com!"

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

My favorite was "The Information Superhighway."

[-] vegafjord@discuss.online 7 points 4 months ago

It sounds too complicated for me. Probably intended for more advanced users.

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Just pronounce it “wuhwuhwuh”

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[-] Koyaanisqatsi@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

Just perform a constant hum: "vvvvvv"

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[-] bastardsheep@aussie.zone 9 points 4 months ago

I generally say “werwerwer”.

[-] criitz@reddthat.com 9 points 4 months ago

But you don't type world wide web. You type www.

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[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago
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[-] tino@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago
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[-] 8000gnat@reddthat.com 8 points 4 months ago

well i sure hate that last picture

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 7 points 4 months ago

Call it WoWaWe

[-] Imhotep@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

when visiting my dutch family I noticed how faster "vay vay vay" is, so I started thinking vévévé in french instead of "double v" x3 (btw this is a double u : uu) I've said it out loud a few times by accident and people don't question it. I think we all agree it's a bit silly to pronounce.

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