why do people mis-pronounce names of systems

[Hells Malice]

Oh look

Canadians can be retarded too...
This is a dark day.


PS: I totally agree it's N-E-S...who the hell says Ness. We ain't talkin' about Earthbound here.

 

[Sterling]

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.

He's a lost cause Foxi, he's making you try way too hard. :/ Just let him do what he wants. I'll be right there with the people that poke fun at him for being dumb. >.>

 

[Foxi4]

BTW It's actually Atari two thousand six hundred.

Are you sure it wasn't an Atari twenty-six hundred?

Because that's an acceptable name as well.

 

[BORTZ]

Wow this thread is painful.

OP, lets just agree that you are wrong.

 

[The Catboy]

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.

I seriously don't get what you are getting so worked up about. This would like complaining about people calling a television a TV or a bicycle a bike.

 

[Hadrian]

Are you sure it wasn't an Atari twenty-six hundred?

Because that's an acceptable name as well.

ITS MY FUCKING NICKNAME!!!!!!!ONEONE etc...I mean EEE-TEEE_SEEE

Actually we just called them Atari's.

This commercial is fucking rad:

 

[superspudz2000]

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.

like i said, the TV commercials never say GBA,
they have taglines like "the all new Gameboy Advance, buy it now",
or "PSP, get you game on", i know its PSP because Sony Coined the Phrase.
otherwise we would have called it "handheld playstation" or "Sony portable"

only old TV Hosts that read off teleprompters say it GBA.

 

[AceWarhead]

like i said, the TV commercials never say GBA,
they have taglines like "the all new Gameboy Advance, buy it now",
or "PSP, get you game on", i know its PSP because Sony Coined the Phrase.
otherwise we would have called it "handheld playstation" or "Sony portable"

only old TV Hosts that read off teleprompters say it GBA.

Actually, No.
As Foxi already stated, Iwata, a worker FOR NINTENDO since its early days, has said GBA, actually saying, or PRONOUNCING, Gee-bee-a.

 

[the_randomizer]

fgh

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

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

Oh, BFD, look at the bottom left corner of the box, it says "ABG-001" the system code for "Advanced Game Boy". Other systems have them, too, the Gamecube is often abbreviated as GCN, and they are widely accepted, heck, even in Japan they phonetically call it "GBA" because saying "ゲームボイーアドバンス” is quite a mouthful to say. If you don't like abbreviations and how they're pronounced, then stop being a pillock about it.

 

[YayMii]

I'd say just deal with it. People can say whatever they want, and it really doesn't matter.

On a related note, I pronounce DSiXL as a single word.

Oh, BFD, look at the bottom left corner of the box, it says "ABG-001" the system code for "Advanced Game Boy". Other systems have them, too, the Gamecube is often abbreviated as GCN, and they are widely accepted, heck, even in Japan they phonetically call it "GBA" because saying "ゲームボイーアドバンス” is quite a mouthful to say. If you don't like abbreviations and how they're pronounced, then stop being a pillock about it.

Actually, the model number of the Gamecube is DOL. Just like how the DS was NTR, the DS lite was USG, and the Wii was RVL.

 

[Foxi4]

Alrighty then, kind sir. Please, continue driving your automobile (NOT car) back and forth your place of employment (NOT work) and/or educational establishment (NOT school), withdraw legal tender (NOT money) from automated teller machines (NOT ATM's), browse the World Wide Web (NOT the Internet, even though World Wide Web does not even mean "Internet") on your Personal Computer (NOT PC) with its wonderful IBM-Compatible Central Processing Unit (NOT CPU) while pointing at icons, buttons and hyperlinks (NOT links) with your Computer Pointing Device (NOT mouse) while I proceed to report this thread for lack of substance.

 

[Gahars]

I was so happy to see the Temp come back, but if this is what we have to welcome us...

"Sometimes, hacked is better."

 

[suppow]

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

i think it would be REV or NRV, i can recall the serial code atm.

 

[suppow]

Alrighty then, kind sir. Please, continue driving your automobile (NOT car) back and forth your place of employment (NOT work) and/or educational establishment (NOT school), withdraw legal tender (NOT money) from automated teller machines (NOT ATM's), browse the World Wide Web (NOT the Internet, even though World Wide Web does not even mean "Internet") on your Personal Computer (NOT PC) with its wonderful IBM-Compatible Central Processing Unit (NOT CPU) while pointing at icons, buttons and hyperlinks (NOT links) with your Computer Pointing Device (NOT mouse) while I proceed to report this thread for lack of substance.

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[3bbb7]

like i said, the TV commercials never say GBA,
they have taglines like "the all new Gameboy Advance, buy it now",
or "PSP, get you game on", i know its PSP because Sony Coined the Phrase.
otherwise we would have called it "handheld playstation" or "Sony portable"

only old TV Hosts that read off teleprompters say it GBA.

just because they say it like that on the commercials doesn't mean that it's wrong. Why would they say GBA on the commercial anyway? If they say GBA, a first time buyer might not know what it is. If they say the full name, Gameboy Advance then people will say, "Oh a gameboy I will get that".
I can almost guarantee you if you asked a nintendo employee if its wrong to say GBA then they will say no.

 

[superspudz2000]

im sorry i have to say this... who the **** is Iwata?

Goes to Wikipedia........

ok, hes the president of nintendo, big deal hes no Shigeru Miyamoto,
yet i allready knew that Reggie Fils-Aime is the president of NOA.

bosses are usually less informed than the employees.

 

[gamefan5]

If I could choose my preference over this thread existing or the site being shut down. I would choose the latter.

 

[Foxi4]

im sorry i have to say this... who the **** is Iwata?

Goes to Wikipedia........

ok, hes the president of nintendo, big deal hes no Shigeru Miyamoto,
yet i allready knew that Reggie Fils-Aime is the president of NOA.

bosses are usually less informed than the employees.

Right, right - the troll revealed its face.

You can't get any higher than "President of Nintendo", I think he knows how to call his own products.

 

[Castiel]

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[Issac]

my brain hurts.

also, i say Ness in swedish, but EN-EE-ESS in english.
and I also think Ness in earthbound got that name from ... the NES? no?

And dude, sony have said Playstation Portable in TV adds as well. and on shows like E3... "Puray suteeshun portabulu"... quite often. Just as ninty has said GBA.