Topic: How do you pronounce FAQ

Anonymous A started this discussion 11 years ago #41,297

Question in title

Poll option	Votes	Percentage
F-A-Q	7	50%
Fack	7	50%
Fake	-	0%
Fag	-	0%

Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 6 minutes later[^] [v] #549,044

As one word.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 56 seconds later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #549,046

Faaaaaaaaqqqqqqq

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Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 16 minutes later, 24 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #549,056

Fack. Always have, always will. It is the true way.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 6 minutes later, 30 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #549,061

@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
I agree completely. I'm always confused when I hear it the other way.

Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 11 years ago, 5 minutes later, 36 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #549,063

@549,056 (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
@previous (A)
It's F-A-Q. What do you people not understand?

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 37 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #549,064

@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Why have a cute, pronounceable-as-one-word acronym if you don't pronounce it as one word?

Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 39 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #549,065

@previous (A)
Because it's cool :)

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #549,070

Facque

hamfist !t5TYQ9eJPs joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 2 hours later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #549,112

@549,044 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
0__o

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Broseph !!fxnDb+Ve4 joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 3 hours later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #549,137

@549,064 (A)
Do you pronounce CIA as Seeah and USA as Oosah?

Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx replied with this 11 years ago, 2 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #549,140

@previous (Broseph !!fxnDb+Ve4)
That's completely different.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 11 years ago, 1 minute later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #549,141

@previous (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
Yep.

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 52 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #549,149

@549,140 (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
Ummm... No not really. Well, maybe there are some precedents for pronouncing these things... We've been sociality trained by television news media to spout some acronyms in letter form and pronounce others as words. (e.g. FEMA, TARP, NATO, etc.) I have never heard anyone refer to an EU decision as an "Eew decision" yet.

On the whole though, I'm with you in pronouncing FAQ as "Fack". Same here. That's the word that 'I read in my head to myself' when I see "FAQ" on a screen. Always have. Always will. Sometime I will say "F-A-Q" amonst friends who wouldn't immediately understand, but that's pretty rare. (And, no, I'm not going to stop pronouncing GIF with a hard "g" either; I've been doing it for close to two decades now, and I don't give a fuck what the creator of the format thinks.)

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Falco !a7Q.SWNEJw joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 14 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #549,152

fuck

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 4 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #549,178

I pronounced it "throatwarblermangrove".

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