What I hate even more, is that the morons who can't read more than two syllables decided to shorten "application" to "app", but now I only ever hear people reading that as "ay pee pee"! What was the fucking point?

[–] Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Chinese phonology doesn't allow for the pronunciation of "app", for example. I see a lot of Chinese people spelling it as "APP", and pronouncing it accordingly. It's kinda funny to me, since the Mandarin word "yingyong" is only two syllables. "APP" just seems more cumbersome by all account, yet it has become inexplicably popular.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yingyong sounds cool. It's got yoyo vibes

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ping pong

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Or as the Chinese say ping pong

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It literally means "to apply", funnily.
But of course the majority of Chinese people are not English speakers, so they see "app" but can't know it's the same meaning.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 1 points 15 hours ago

Eh, that kinda works out.

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