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#3117394 18-Aug-2023 08:25

Watching a video yesterday and the voiceover was supposed to say accelerating.

What they actually said (several times) is "eggzellerating"

Annoying.

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#3117398 18-Aug-2023 08:39

Handsomedan:

Watching a video yesterday and the voiceover was supposed to say accelerating.

What they actually said (several times) is "eggzellerating"

Annoying.

We have a software product at work called Accela. Apparently this is pronounced as something approximating "uh-sell-uh".

The other day my boss said "Why are people STILL pronouncing it ak-sell-uh?! It's uh-sell-uh!"

I replied with "Well, it was introduced to the business as 'Project Accelarate' so you can't really blame them..."

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#3117404 18-Aug-2023 08:55

Behodar:

We have a software product at work called Accela. Apparently this is pronounced as something approximating "uh-sell-uh".

The other day my boss said "Why are people STILL pronouncing it ak-sell-uh?! It's uh-sell-uh!"

I replied with "Well, it was introduced to the business as 'Project Accelarate' so you can't really blame them..."

Mainly because I was interested to know what Accela does, I found this sales video online - wherein an American accent pronunces it as ak-sell-uh.

The US passenger rail operator, Amtrak, has a fast-ish train called Acela on its Eastern Corridor route - pronunced "a-sell-uh".

I reckon the double 'cc' in Accela makes it 'ack' - as in accelerate, as you say. The accent is on 'ack'. And if the devs/promoters say 'ack', who's to argue.

You may wish to point this out to your boss, then duck.

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#3117407 18-Aug-2023 09:03

WRC+ changing to Rally.TV and breaking absolutely everything.

Get a "Time difference between system and server" error using normal browser. No sh!t sherlock, I'm not in Europe, there's these things called timezones around the world.

Manage to login using Private Browsing and they bill me for a new subscription even though it's supposed to carry over existing subs.

So that's two support tickets logged already with the latest ERC round starting tonight where I want to be able to wacth Hayden Paddon attempt to take the title.

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#3117408 18-Aug-2023 09:03

And here I was thinking "Accella" (and another CRM-type software called Accelo) should be pronounced like Italian CC (sounds like Ch before E and I).

Obviously if it comes from English "Accelerate" then it's not the same. But every time I see "CC" in a made-up word I think Italian...

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#3117413 18-Aug-2023 09:11

eracode:

Mainly because I was interested to know what Accela does, I found this sales video online - wherein an American accent pronunces it as ak-sell-uh.

Interesting! Down the rabbit hole we go...

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#3117415 18-Aug-2023 09:13

freitasm:

And here I was thinking "Accella" (and another CRM-type software called Accelo) should be pronounced like Italian CC (sounds like Ch before E and I).

Obviously if it comes from English "Accelerate" then it's not the same. But every time I see "CC" in a made-up word I think Italian...

I have a friend in Warcraft who named his character Avocado. When he switched to a new server, Avocado was already taken so he changed it to Avoccado. I have been known to read this "avochado", like fettuccine etc (although I didn't know about the "before E/I" rule until now).

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#3117416 18-Aug-2023 09:17

neb: "Bollocks" because Retrumplicans in the US have proposed some 450 pieces of transphobic legislation without ever being able to produce any evidence of an actual problem that the legislation addresses. Usually they'll eventually admit there's no evidence when questioned about it, although in some cases they've simply invented things to justify the legislation.

Precisely the same as Winston Peters here, although he hasn't, and probably never will, admitted that there's no justification.

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#3117417 18-Aug-2023 09:20

Behodar:

freitasm:

And here I was thinking "Accella" (and another CRM-type software called Accelo) should be pronounced like Italian CC (sounds like Ch before E and I).

Obviously if it comes from English "Accelerate" then it's not the same. But every time I see "CC" in a made-up word I think Italian...

I have a friend in Warcraft who named his character Avocado. When he switched to a new server, Avocado was already taken so he changed it to Avoccado. I have been known to read this "avochado", like fettuccine etc (although I didn't know about the "before E/I" rule until now).

Yes, to be clear to others who didn't watch the video:

In Italian, C and CC before A, O, U sounds like "ck": carbonara, bocca. Before E, I it sounds like "ch": fettuccine, ciao.

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#3117429 18-Aug-2023 09:44

johno1234:

Political machinations aside, I don't think borne female competitors in sports like swimming, powerlifting, athletics and so on objecting to borne males competing with them and using their showers is bollocks, is it?

Or born straight women objecting to lesbians using their showers. They look just the same as other women and how can you be sure they aren't leering at you?

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#3117431 18-Aug-2023 09:55

Rikkitic:

johno1234:

Political machinations aside, I don't think borne female competitors in sports like swimming, powerlifting, athletics and so on objecting to borne males competing with them and using their showers is bollocks, is it?

Or born straight women objecting to lesbians using their showers. They look just the same as other women and how can you be sure they aren't leering at you?

I've heard people mention the whole "what about the gays" thing in gym changing rooms/showers etc - their concern is that they'll get looked at in a lustful way. I can almost guarantee if you're not super hot, they ain't looking. And if you are, even the straight ones probably are.

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#3117432 18-Aug-2023 09:55

On a not dissimilar note to the Accella discussion above, I get annoyed with product or organisation names that are commonly used words like (Microsoft) Teams or One(NZ, prev Vodafone).

Can make it really quite awkward when writing a document (or even in conversations) where the product or organisation needs to be referenced to retain flow and ensure the audience has the right context.

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#3117433 18-Aug-2023 09:58

I can't understand the need for a separate women's chess competition. There are very good reasons to exclude biological males (regardless of their perceived gender) from women's physical sports. But the chess one makes less sense

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#3117445 18-Aug-2023 10:36

shk292:

I can't understand the need for a separate women's chess competition.

I understand it.

The biological women competing are probably that much smarter (and more able to multitask) than the men, that the authorities are terrified that the male-dominated sport will become dominated by female chess masters.

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#3117447 18-Aug-2023 10:39

shk292:

I can't understand the need for a separate women's chess competition. There are very good reasons to exclude biological males (regardless of their perceived gender) from women's physical sports. But the chess one makes less sense

It's quite obvious that there's differences between the genders and separate competitions stop one gender from trumpeting that the other is inferior.

Or to put it another way, the men didn't want to get shown up 😃

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