why do people mis-pronounce names of systems

[nando]

Why do people create shit threads like this?

because canadians.

 

[Hadrian]

yes but the official designation was the "Nintendo Revolution", later changed to Wii
my point: nobody calls it the "NR system", for Revolution.

No, we call it the RN...fucking noob.

EDIT: Sorry I mean Arr-en

 

[frogboy]

yes but the official designation was the "Nintendo Revolution", later changed to Wii
my point: nobody calls it the "NR system", for Revolution.

Duh, because it's not called the Revolution anymore.

 

[Hadrian]

 

[Foxi4]

yes but the official designation was the "Nintendo Revolution", later changed to Wii
my point: nobody calls it the "NR system", for Revolution.

Similarily the N64 was originally Ultra 64 - so what if Revolution was the official designation, the name is "Wii" and that's what we call it.

Only long terms are coined/clipped, for example PlayStation Three - it's a mouthful, so we say PS3. Similarily, GameBoy Advance is a mouthful, so we say GBA. Everybody understands the message, it's an acronym - G.ame B.oy A.dvance, it follows simple language rules which govern how acronyms are created.

The official designation or codename does not matter - the abbreviation is created from the final name of the product.

 

[Zaertix]

yes but the official designation was the "Nintendo Revolution", later changed to Wii
my point: nobody calls it the "NR system", for Revolution.

No kiddo. The development name for the Double Yew Aye Aye, ITS WII YOU MORON.. was Nintendo Revolution. It was the code name, as the GCN was Project Dolphin, yet for retail...

THEY WERE BOTH CHANGED! *GASP*

 

[B-Blue]

WOW! The GBA's box is bigger than my penis...

edit: I wish I had a penis.

 

[Depravo]

House on fire? Having a heart attack? Simply dial 0800-NINE-NINE-NINE.

 

[AceWarhead]

I guess we can't say PC anymore... "Oh, lemme go and check on my Personal Computer"
Or iOS... "The newest iPhone Operating system update has arrived!"
Or Mac... "Hey, I got my new MacintoshBook pro!"
But anyway...
WHY ARE YOU SO WORRIED ABOUT SUCH A TRIVIAL SUBJECT?

 

[Yepi69]

fgh

Ahem....where do you see the abbreviation G.B.A. ?

Nintendo Officially released the Gameboy Advance, they never put any code on it.

Play Mario Kart DS, Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 7 and you see tracks like ''GBA Sky Circuit'' or ''GBA Bowser Castle''
Nintendo DOES uses the GBA letters

 

[JoostinOnline]

It's funny that you think it's wrong to use the initials GBA, but it's wrong NOT to use the initials NES.

 

[3bbb7]

what, you mean the "Nintendo Dual Screen"?

i say nintendo DS, but at least pronounce the Nintendo,
instead of En-Dee-Ess NDS

DS means both dual screen and developers system also like said above WII IS NOT AN ACRONYM

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/ds/faq.jsp#ds

 

[Yepi69]

And please don't make any more shit threads like this one, you get heavily insulted if you do.

 

[3bbb7]

It's funny that you think it's wrong to use the initials GBA, but it's wrong NOT to use the initials NES.

Exactly. wheres the NES on this box? all I see is Nintendo Entertainment System

 

[Elrinth]

I say NES or Ness to Nintendo Entertainment System. It's very rare to hear people say simply the letters.

Back in the old days it was commonly know as 8bit, 8Bit Nintendo or simply Nintendo. "I'm going home to play some 8bit". EVERYONE knew from this that we were talking about the NES.
There were a few who had Sega Master System. That one was commonly known as Sega or Sega 8bit. That was until the Mega Drive was released ofcourse

 

[superspudz2000]

Sony Executive: we sell the PSP, PS2 and PS3

Nintendo Executive: we sold the NES, Game boy Advance, Nintendo DS.

Atari Executive: we sold the Atari Twenty Six Hundred,
the FiftyTwoHundred, and the SeventyEightHundred.

these are the proper designations terms.

 

[suppow]

i once saw a guy on youtube saying "64" instead of "N64" or "Nintendo 64" just to annoy people lol, i guess that would bother you.

you know what kinda stuff bothers me though? things like people saying "pokyman" instead of "pokemon"
or "inneresting" instead of "intresting" or "romannic" instead of "romantic"
argh

 

[3bbb7]

Sony Executive: we sell the PSP, PS2 and PS3

Nintendo Executive: we sold the NES, Game boy Advance, Nintendo DS.

Atari Executive: we sold the Atari Twenty Six Hundred,
the FiftyTwoHundred, and the SeventyEightHundred.

these are the proper designations terms.

Do you work for sony? Do you work for nintendo? Do you work for atari? No. can you state what the proper terms are? No.

 

[Foxi4]

(...)these are the proper designations terms.

And automobile is the designated term for car, which doesn't stop us from saying car because car happens to be easier to pronounce. Car isn't an acronym of course, at some point in history it used to be a neologism, but it was so popular that it entered dictionaries - that's how new words are created and there's nothing weird about this process.

As several people have told you, creating acronyms is a normal process that most long terms go through in order to improve fluent communication. GameBoy Advance may be the name of the product, but I already posted an example where even a Nintendo representative, and not just any representative - Iwata himself uses the term "GBA". It's not uncommon.

If those bother you, imagine how people from countries which did not share the same phonetical patterns pronounce those names, even when proper. In Poland, the "En-ee-es" is in fact "N-es" without the initial "e" sound, the "Pee-es-Pee" is in fact "Pe-es-pe", and the "Ex-Box" is actually "Ix-box".

By the way, you mistake "pronounciation", which is the act of pronouncing (clusters of) sounds with "the use of proper names".

 

[Hadrian]

Sony Executive: we sell the PSP, PS2 and PS3

Nintendo Executive: we sold the NES, Game boy Advance, Nintendo DS.

Atari Executive: we sold the Atari Twenty Six Hundred,
the FiftyTwoHundred, and the SeventyEightHundred.

these are the proper designations terms.

People have nicknames for things and a lot of them stick. That is all they are, accept it and move on with life.

BTW It's actually Atari two thousand six hundred.