r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 10h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ I completely agree...

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u/Reformed_Hillbilly 8h ago

This might be the least efficient verbalized initialism in the world

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u/CocktailPerson 7h ago

That's a silly statement because nobody verbalizes the initialism in isolation. People only say the letters when they're dictating a web address, and what they're dictating is the actual letters.

In real life people just say "the web" or "the internet."

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u/Reformed_Hillbilly 4h ago

In the earlier internet days, it was common to say the www when directing someone to a website. Both in advertisements and in personal discussion.

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u/KarmaOrDiscussion 57m ago

That's what he is saying.

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u/0oodruidoo0 1h ago

nobody even says them when they say a web address. back in the day when you had to type in the prefixes, you would say dub dub dub dot

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u/YikesTheCat 1h ago

Only because the pronunciation of W in English is the worst in the world. Should probably fix that instead of WWW.