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[-] Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de 111 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 year ago

Dreifaches Doppel-Du

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

HTTP Error 400

My favorite joke

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[-] aninnymoose@lemm.ee 83 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
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[-] udon@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago
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[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago

It's worse! 9 syllables!

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[-] MrAlternateTape@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] __dev@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year 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 1 year ago
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[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 32 points 1 year ago

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

Wuh wuh wuh punk lemmy punk world

[-] Lommy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago
[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

in Germany we say weh and punkt

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[-] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

i've often heard it called dubdubdub

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago
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[-] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] Norgur@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago
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[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago
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[-] aulin@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago
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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 year ago

Dub Dub Dub.

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

[-] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago
[-] Creddit@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year 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 1 year 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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[-] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Some people don't know how to properly DNS, and IIRC some smaller DNS services don't support CNAMEing the root.

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[-] helloyanis@jlai.lu 13 points 1 year 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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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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[-] Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

My favorite was "The Information Superhighway."

[-] vegafjord@discuss.online 7 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Just pronounce it “wuhwuhwuh”

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[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
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[-] criitz@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] bastardsheep@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago

I generally say “werwerwer”.

[-] 8000gnat@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

well i sure hate that last picture

[-] tino@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
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[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 7 points 1 year ago

Call it WoWaWe

[-] mtchristo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago
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