I don't trust websites that still start with www.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2024
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Why not? (Serious question, I'm a DNS engineer so this is super relevant to me)
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That's why it's pronounced dub-dub-dub.
Even faster to say Net
Anyone else not realize the swirls were part of a watermark and just think that was supposed to be part of his haircut?
To play devil's advocate, yes, "w" is technically three syllables in English, but they're easy enough to blur together. Meanwhile, the actual "w" sound is comparatively labor intensive, and "-orld" even more so. We're in purple burglar alarm world.
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true story. Just as many syllables as 1 W.
Say "dubdubdub" or "dubbadubdub". "winwinwin" would also be acceptable.
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I think we should sit down and take the shortest syllable version of each word/expression from each language and combine them all into one fast language.
In spanish we use, "three W" as WWW xD
Visit us at double you double you double you double you double you dot!
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Kids these days don't remember President Dubya I guess 😔