When you see FAQ, for example here, does the voice in your head spell it out like "eff-ay-kyoo" or pronounce it like the word "fax" or "fac" or something along those lines?
I'm seriously curious, please post a comment with your answer. If the voices in your head tell you other things, I'd like to hear about them as well.
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When I see FAQ the voice in my head does not pronounce it any of the ways presented. In my head I hear "frequently asked questions", however, the voice rarely actually takes the time to pronouce all that. So it really hears "Freque" because my head voice lacks the motivation and fails to see any reason to use that much effort to mentally annunciate the entire phrase. I suppose that is why people choose to just say fax or approved equal. But I dont know why I never have.
If I were going to make a shortcut, I think saying it as a spinoff of FU (aka "FAHKU") would be most entertaining.
I do agree with Brian that there are some acronyms when read aren't pronounced (in the world of DoD there are acronyms for everything and so trying to figure out the proper phonetics of CDRUSELEMNORAD or WWABNCP is futile). However, "FAQ" while I do not pronounce it when I read it, when asked, I think of it not as "fax" but as "facts". Usually presented as FAQs (even though the Q for Question may be pluralized) they are a list of commonly searched bits of information, or facts, on the given subject. And so for me, I pronounce a word that makes sense in the context of the acronym and phonetically represents the same.
This is kind of a dorky post from you and lame comment from me.
aenpc: pronounced "ayn-pik"
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i am glad she agreed because i thought my answer, while honest, sucked. i also feared nobody would know what i am talking about.
clearly your other reader does know what i am talking about.
ps- sparks i saw you showed echo as one of your top characters or somethign in a previous entry. how did last nights episode of lost change (if at all) your feelings towards him? just wondering because i love that character and was glad they finally featured him and his background...
i first say "fax/facts" (it varies) and then actually mentally correct myself to "frequently asked questions"
Eko is even better now.
I saq "eff-ay-Q" but it is with the mental thought that it means the full "frequently asked questions."
Next question I guess is when you orally refer to a "FAQ" how do you say it outloud?
I think and say "eff-ay-Q" to myself.
I guess it depends who I'm talking to though, because if I'm talking to one of our English-as-a-2nd-language post-docs, I would just say frequently asked questions, otherwise they get confused and it turns into another long conversation about how crazy english is.
"eff-ay-q" here as well.
And that's how I refer to it verbally.
oh boy my side is gaining momentum
when saying it i think i say frequently asked questions.
i think you have to say "frequently asked question"... unless you're involved in a running discussion such as this. in which case, were we all in each other's company we might be able to get away with saying "FAK", "FAX" or "EFF-AY-QUEUE", still understand everyone and be total dorks for having this conversation outloud. ;)
"your side"? i thought this was a forum of open minds and honest discussion. now you're telling us you were looking for a correct answer? or at the very least some validation? tsk tsk in any light, i would think most people reading your blog share something in common with you (schooling, rearing, afterschool activities) and so it makes sense that most of your readers share your way of reading and/or pronouncing.
if Eko was my priest, i'd be uber-catholic. how do ya like them apples?
now you're telling us you were looking for a correct answer? or at the very least some validation?
uh, nobody had chimed in who said it like i did, then a couple people did. so i noted that.
i would think most people reading your blog share something in common with you (schooling, rearing, afterschool activities) and so it makes sense that most of your readers share your way of reading and/or pronouncing.
i hope this isn't serious
if Eko was my priest, i'd be uber-catholic. how do ya like them apples?
That's cause if you weren't, Eko would personally send you to hell.
Usually, when i read, i don't enunciate anything at all. When I see "FAQ", the concept that FAQ represents is just injected into my thought process.
But, if I read for a while, sometimes my brain starts reading out the words "out loud" in my interior monologue, and I can't make it stop. This usually slows my reading pace drastically, and pisses me off to the point where I stop reading and go watch porn.
I don't know if that made any sense.
i would think most people reading your blog share something in common with you (schooling, rearing, afterschool activities) and so it makes sense that most of your readers share your way of reading and/or pronouncing.
i hope this isn't serious
instead of being condescending, why not share with me what you know or have learned about linguistics, speech patterns and dialect, that way we both benefit from this discussion
you're begging the question. the whole point was to find out how people that are like us say it.
sorry for the condescention
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