I just got invited to a meeting for a time zone that doesn’t exist this time of year. In the US EST does not stand for Eastern time, it stands for Eastern Standard Time (~November-~March), EST is not an active time zone, it is EDT Eastern Daylight Time. Its a pointless thing, most people probably don’t notice, but its wrong.

Fake internet points to anyone who knows why DB-9 bothers me.

Edit: corrected a missing n in an eastern

  • Che Banana
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    35 months ago

    It’s irrational how it irritates me…it just does.

    • @l_b_i@yiffit.netOP
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      15 months ago

      No judgment, are there other childish pronunciations that bother you too, or is just spaghetti? There is a company called pinnacle that uses a little girl intentionally mispronouncing the company name in their ads.

      • Che Banana
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        25 months ago

        No, just that one. Most of the time people mispronounce things because they have only read the word and not heard it, so I try not to judge people when they do- but that one is a real fingernails on the chalkboard one for me.