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[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 162 points 1 year ago

I've always pronounced it Ass-key

[-] AtomicHotSauce@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Count me amongst the Ass-keyers.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Welcome to the fold. First rule of πŸ‘ πŸ”‘: claim territory, and keep the isekai clan off our turf.

They give you trouble, you call me, captchisce? 🀌

[-] sevan@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago
[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

I was trying to combine Captcha with Capisce (pronounced capeesh, like an italian mobster) as a joke, but I'm not sure it landed πŸ˜…

[-] sevan@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, I get it now. :)

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

There seems to be a rendering error in three places here.␄

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago
[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

😎 πŸ‡¦ πŸ‡Έ πŸ‡Έ πŸ‡° πŸ‡ͺ πŸ‡Ύ πŸ”Ή πŸ‡² πŸ‡¦ πŸ‡³ ℒ️

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey everybody, the Asskey Man's back!

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's the only way I've ever heard it pronounced in actual speech. Of course, the only times I have heard people talking about it IRL is in CS classes and the like. I don't know many tech nerds IRL to have conversations about computer standards with.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 year ago

I say ass key

[-] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

ASCII a stupid question and you get a stupid ANSI

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

ASCII a stupid question

if you’re ISO 8859-1

a stupid ANSI

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 25 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh right, the "hit by a truck" cliche.

[-] eleitl@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

So was 1975.

[-] logi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

You sure it wasn't IBM time travellers from 1985 sent her to ebcdic you?

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is the only place I've seen EBCDIC referenced, other than the college class that introduced me to it.

Lemmy is for sure the only place where I've seen a JOKE about it. Nerd.

I like you.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

I worked for a credit bureau for a while and a product we had used a mainframe for billing customers. So the billing file was in EBCDIC.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Financial and health institutions are famously behind the times.

[-] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago
[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago
[-] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] TGhost@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

isnt it a joke ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isekai,

Ace-Qii as french, however,

πŸ‘ πŸ”‘

[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

ih-seh-kai, and ASCII like ass-key. They aren't close, to me.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

That's ass-sea, you Neanderthal!

It's much funnier that way, as any right thinking human knows ;)

[-] Khanzarate@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I know its asskey because asskey unlocked an ass, see?

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Puns.

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[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 7 points 1 year ago

Ee-sik-kai and ass key. I bet I'm double wrong but less wrong than OOP. There not close.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

We don’t. We make you speak American, like god intended.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

It seems more rikely, if hit by an IBM truck in 1985 that he would be ebcdic'd to Seattle.

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 9 points 11 months ago

Even in japanese it's like asukii

[-] Turbonics@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago
[-] hono4kami@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've also heard "A S C I 2" which seems really weird.

[-] lamp@neon.nightbulb.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

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