• fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    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?

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      1 month ago

      I’ve literally never heard anyone call it A.P.P. (and I mean that literally literally, not figuratively literally)

      Is this a specific cultural thing? A generational thing? Geography based slang? Why would anyone do this.

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      I mean, I’m pretty sure this is extremely widespread in China, so I’d say it’s more cultural than anything else. In fact, since there are so many Chinese, that probably means more people call it A.P.P. than app. But I honestly have no clue, and it doesn’t matter to me either way. Words change. It’s nothing to get bent out of shape about.