retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org Mr.Mofu @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2w ago

Do people really pronounce it this way...?

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I've always pronounced it Ass-key
- Count me amongst the Ass-keyers.
  
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  They give you trouble, you call me, captchisce? 🤌
- I, too, am an ass-key man
  
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- Yup, Japan says it's ass-key.
I say ass key
ASCII a stupid question and you get a stupid ANSI
- ASCII a stupid question
  
  if you’re ISO 8859-1
  
  a stupid ANSI
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.
You sure it wasn't IBM time travellers from 1985 sent her to ebcdic you?
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  Lemmy is for sure the only place where I've seen a JOKE about it. Nerd.
  
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isnt it a joke ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isekai,

Ace-Qii as french, however,
It seems more rikely, if hit by an IBM truck in 1985 that he would be ebcdic'd to Seattle.
This must be the guy who pronounces it Jif
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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.
- ih-seh-kai, and ASCII like ass-key. They aren't close, to me.
  
  That's ass-sea, you Neanderthal!
  
  It's much funnier that way, as any right thinking human knows ;)
- Ee-sik-kai and ass key. I bet I'm double wrong but less wrong than OOP. There not close.
- We don’t. We make you speak American, like god intended.
- 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
Even in japanese it's like asukii
- Dai asukii
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
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
I've also heard "A S C I 2" which seems really weird.
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
Ahs-see. The hard C following a vowel and preceding a long vowel makes "ck" seem wrong to me.
- So, "Assy"?
  
  More like asSY

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