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Re:Why use www? by excitom on Sunday June 29, 2014 @01:03PM (#7961679)
I dislike www since it is the world's worst acronym, having three times as many syllables as the words it replaces.
Re:Why use www? by janaagaard on Sunday June 29, 2014 @01:15PM (#7961715)
In Denmark we usually say V-V-V when we spell it out. Confusing? Defenitely yes. But we also call a BMW a BMV and a WC is just a VC.
Re:Why use www? by eknkc on Sunday June 29, 2014 @01:37PM (#7961780)
Same here in Turkey. Most people just say vvv.

We don't have a "w" in our alphabet, and a name for it though.. That might be the reason.

Re:Why use www? by batuhanicoz on Sunday June 29, 2014 @02:21PM (#7961925)
Most people I know in Turkey says double-v, including my father who can't even Google properly.

We do say BMV though. And I've heard may people saying "v", but most? I'm now sure. I could be living in a bubble.

Re:Why use www? by diminish on Sunday June 29, 2014 @03:01PM (#7962012)
it's maybe BMW is a german car company and people didn't hear it from english speakers first?
Re:Why use www? by eloisant on Sunday June 29, 2014 @04:11PM (#7962228)
That's because BMW is a German company and "W" is pronounced "V" in German.
Re:Why use www? by Zancarius on Sunday June 29, 2014 @02:39PM (#7961964)
Suddenly, I imagine "venture capital" takes on a humorous glint in Denmark.
Re:Why use www? by josteink on Monday June 30, 2014 @05:48AM (#7964336)
That's not really a problem, since in Denmark people speak Danish and "venture capital" is not a Danish word, so people aren't saying it, nor writing abbreviations of it intermixed with other Danish language.
Re:Why use www? by Zancarius on Monday June 30, 2014 @01:16PM (#7966215)
> That's not really a problem, since in Denmark people speak Danish and "venture capital" is not a Danish word, so people aren't saying it, nor writing abbreviations of it intermixed with other Danish language.

Don't be dense. I wasn't suggesting anything of the sort.

The point of my comment was one of humor (apparently that's verboten?), and therefore the intent was that a Danish person who also knows English may have something of a chuckle when they see abbreviations of it in English as a direct result of the OP's comment.

Further, since I assume "VC" comes from the Danish word(s) for "water closet," it's fairly reasonable to believe that a faint glint of humor crosses the mind of Danish people when they read such English abbreviations assuming they know English.

Humor loses its value when it must be explained.

Re:Why use www? by Zancarius on Monday June 30, 2014 @03:10PM (#7966959)
Curious. Were the downvotes for "off topic" comments or is josteink abusing his accumulated karma to downvote comments he doesn't like?

I'm quite an amenable person and would like to know precisely what it is I'm doing wrong here.

Re:Why use www? by josteink on Monday June 30, 2014 @03:34PM (#7967126)
I haven't done any voting myself (but thanks for naturally assuming), but if I would venture a guess, it would be that your reply was considered off topic and that it added nothing to the discussion.
Re:Why use www? by Zancarius on Monday June 30, 2014 @03:45PM (#7967191)
Fair enough, and I apologize for making such an outrageous assumption. In fairness, I think I may have misread the tone of your original post and was a little miffed. (Not appropriate, but we all make mistakes--mine are just more regular than they ought to be.)

I do appreciate the subtle tongue-in-cheek reference, though (I chuckled). +1.

Re:Why use www? by pling on Sunday June 29, 2014 @01:09PM (#7961696)
That's why, at least in the UK, we use "dub dub dub".
Re:Why use www? by deathanatos on Monday June 30, 2014 @02:54AM (#7964019)
From the US, and I also use "dub dub dub" (picked it up from my networking professor…), I've also used "hup-ta" to refer to "http://". ("hup-tis" is https://) It sounds ridiculous, but it flows a lot better than "ache tee tee pee colon slash slash".

(my co-workers understand this, and I think it's growing on a few. One still resists.)

Re:Why use www? by ademarre on Sunday June 29, 2014 @02:06PM (#7961878)
Around my workplace we say "dub dub dub", or I do, at least. I think originally I picked it up from a Matt Cutts video on the Google Webmaster Central YouTube channel.
Re:Why use www? by vacri on Sunday June 29, 2014 @07:50PM (#7962970)
I go for "wuh wuh wuh" myself. "dub dub dub" reminds me of scouts, even though I never was one...
Re:Why use www? by notduncansmith on Monday June 30, 2014 @07:48AM (#7964564)
We use "dub dub dub" at work, though typically not when speaking the full name of the url. That may sound weird, so here's an example exchange:

"Go to foobar.com"

"It's not working"

"Try with dub dub dub"

As an aside, it's so painful to listen to radio commercials from advertising agencies that thought it was a good idea to include "www" in the script. "Just go to double-yew double-yew double-yew..."

Re:Why use www? by grkvlt on Sunday June 29, 2014 @01:23PM (#7961736)
Do we? The most common time-saving pronunciation I have heard simply uses the initial 'w' sounds from the three words, and therefore has three syllables.
Re:Why use www? by pling on Sunday June 29, 2014 @01:31PM (#7961764)
I've heard that but primarily with inexperienced users.
Re:Why use www? by grkvlt on Sunday June 29, 2014 @01:44PM (#7961801)
I just looked at the Wikipedia page for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_%22www%22 and have never seen so much unsourced drivel in my life. For the record, I have been pronouncing it the way I described in the GP comment for the last twenty plus years, so that's some sort of data point.
Re:Why use www? by pling on Sunday June 29, 2014 @04:49PM (#7962346)
Well its Wikipedia. What do you expect. And as for me, it's purely an anecdote. I think it depends on where you are and who you know.

Citation needed.

Re:Why use www? by jamespharaoh on Sunday June 29, 2014 @01:52PM (#7961826)
err, no we don't, sorry!
Re:Why use www? by hmsimha on Sunday June 29, 2014 @01:38PM (#7961786)
When saying your domain name aloud, you never have to say www if your naked domain automatically redirects to your www. subdomain. Most of the time when people say it, it's completely unnecessary. I suppose you could use another subdomain to fulfill the same purpose of 'www' but 'www' is such a common convention that you would then probably need to redirect your users from www to whatever other subdomain you use.
Re:Why use www? by zephjc on Sunday June 29, 2014 @04:01PM (#7962184)
I've liked to saw 'wa' (pronounced like わ/ワ) since the '90s but I've never used it in serious conversation.
Re:Why use www? by tdammers on Monday June 30, 2014 @03:29AM (#7964097)
Less talk, more type.
Re:Why use www? by Aardwolf on Sunday June 29, 2014 @05:19PM (#7962451)
It's not a U, it's not even a vowel, and if it's anything double, it's a double V. Half of it certainly does not look like a U.
Re:Why use www? by vacri on Sunday June 29, 2014 @07:54PM (#7962982)
Half of it certainly does not look like a U

That depends on your handwriting and/or typeface.