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[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 162 points 6 days ago

I've always pronounced it Ass-key

[-] AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago

Count me amongst the Ass-keyers.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Welcome to the fold. First rule of πŸ‘ πŸ”‘: claim territory, and keep the isekai clan off our turf.

They give you trouble, you call me, captchisce? 🀌

[-] sevan@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago
[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 days ago

I was trying to combine Captcha with Capisce (pronounced capeesh, like an italian mobster) as a joke, but I'm not sure it landed πŸ˜…

[-] sevan@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Ah, I get it now. :)

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 days ago

There seems to be a rendering error in three places here.␄

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago
[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 14 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

😎 πŸ‡¦ πŸ‡Έ πŸ‡Έ πŸ‡° πŸ‡ͺ πŸ‡Ύ πŸ”Ή πŸ‡² πŸ‡¦ πŸ‡³ ℒ️

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Hey everybody, the Asskey Man's back!

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[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 52 points 6 days ago

I say ass key

[-] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 45 points 6 days ago

ASCII a stupid question and you get a stupid ANSI

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 5 days ago

ASCII a stupid question

if you’re ISO 8859-1

a stupid ANSI

[-] lamp@neon.nightbulb.net 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

One can find little quips like this in Usenet archives:

Donkey Button == Ass Key == ASCII

https://www.rocksolidbbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=8199&group=alt.folklore.computers#8199

πŸ‘ πŸ”‘

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 23 points 6 days ago

The joke is that 'isekai' in Japanese translates to "another world" in English. 1985 was truly another world, as anyone who was there might attest.

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Oh right, the "hit by a truck" cliche.

[-] eleitl@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

So was 1975.

[-] logi@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

You sure it wasn't IBM time travellers from 1985 sent her to ebcdic you?

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Lemmy is the only place I've seen EBCDIC referenced, other than the college class that introduced me to it.

Lemmy is for sure the only place where I've seen a JOKE about it. Nerd.

I like you.

[-] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago
[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago
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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 5 days ago

I worked for a credit bureau for a while and a product we had used a mainframe for billing customers. So the billing file was in EBCDIC.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Financial and health institutions are famously behind the times.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 8 points 5 days ago

Even in japanese it's like asukii

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[-] TGhost@lemm.ee 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

isnt it a joke ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isekai,

Ace-Qii as french, however,

[-] ddplf@szmer.info 9 points 6 days ago

Someone once told me that JWT is pronounced "jot", so I do. People call me a lunatic for it, but I still do.

[-] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's missing an O sound, that's why you're a psycho

Please don't kill anyone whose net worth is <= 100m

[-] eleitl@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Maybe he's Welsh.

[-] DasSkelett@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

For me it will always be the James Web(b) Token.

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[-] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

i pronunce iy AS CEE (c as in the first on ein the word "cicada") and EE SEH KAY (a as in bat, the "seh" part the e is like in net (thats why i put the h))

idk thats just how we pronounce it in spain

[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

Quick, I need an American. How do you guys pronounce 'isekai'? Going off the correct Japanese pronunciation this post does not make any sense. These things aren't even close in the way I say them.

[-] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago

ih-seh-kai, and ASCII like ass-key. They aren't close, to me.

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[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 9 points 6 days ago

Ee-sik-kai and ass key. I bet I'm double wrong but less wrong than OOP. There not close.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago

i usually would hear EE-seh-kai or EE-say-kai, given that its basically I and Sekai(meaning world in japanese) put together. so how you pronounce the latter should depend on how you pronounce the word Sekai

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

We don’t. We make you speak American, like god intended.

[-] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

It seems more rikely, if hit by an IBM truck in 1985 that he would be ebcdic'd to Seattle.

[-] PantanoPete@tucson.social 6 points 6 days ago

This must be the guy who pronounces it Jif

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[-] hono4kami@pawb.social 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I had lived in Japan and can speak pretty good Japanese. I can say that this is just straight up wrong. LOL where does one even get this info

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I've also heard "A S C I 2" which seems really weird.

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