h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Fascinating...

I said sextuple u right at the beginning... (of time and space)

This thread has gone on much too long already, so of course I shall contribute. A while back, goosed by a suggestion from some radio show, my little clique realized that we were wasting too much time pronouncing "www". So, in the interests of economy, the pronunciation of that syllable is defined to be "wub". Hey, it's no worse than some Welsh words!

Why don't we all use the dutch pronounciation : a W is pronounced 'Way' so WWW would be - and is - pronounced 'waywayway'.

Sorry about any typos. I am working remote from a french keyboard...you may know the things : AZERTY instead of QWERTY...

TM.

WWWierd.

What is ? WayWayWay or AZERTY ?

TM.

Way,way,way is Chinese for "be careful", not that this has anything to do with anything.

In my book, if way-way-way means "be careful" in ANY language, then I vote for it.

But Chinese meaning is pitch-oriented, isn't it? If we don't get the tone right, would we wind up actually saying something like "My hovercraft is full of eels"?

In German Weh, Weh, Weh means pain, pain, pain (or Woe, Woe, Woe) which I believe is also entirely appropriate.

Lil

Well in Dutch it would be phonetically spelled as WeeWeeWee which is not bad but very uncomfortable as women get lots of Wee's when they have to give birth... Whachamacallit...labour-pains ?

TM.

And indeed 'O wee' means almost the same as in German but that is probably due to the fact that it's originally Jiddisch...

isn't it really anoying when magazines or adverts for web sites 'hilariosly' write three wubbleyoos everytime there is one.

I just say dubby-tubby-dot-whatever-dot-com
But I like the Twirdle-u thing that's nice and logical, I've been going with dubby-tubby because it's fun, and that's what liffs about, right?

dubby-tubby... Is that the fifth tellytubbie?

*ducks and runs very fast, hiding in a remote corner of obscurity*

There is an even simpler solution: Assume that people are aware of both the happy-tab and the twirdle-u.
Then just ennonce aych-2-gee-2 daht calm!
Most geeks understand that.
And a select few non-geeks!

I think that may be the fifth Telly-Tubby. Of course those things are freakin' scary. I'll never say dubby-tubby again, I'll stick with Twirdle-ewe!

What about the Tweenies then? Has anybody else noticed that the adult tweenies grow in size (compared with the kid tweenies) during shots filmed outside the studio.

That bothers me.

What are tweenies?
--tilted head--

Hay, Mololo, are you absolutely sure that you WANT to know what tweenies are? It may be a health-hazard to know!
Tele-tubby-knowledge surely is a health-hazard.

do they have TellyTubbies in America? for all i know they started there, i personnaly prefer the Tweenies, but only just.

Maybe I don't want to know what Tweenies are. The Telly Tubbies are certainly bad enuff to know about. Telly-Tubbies certainly frighten me.

Have the non-Americans heard about evangelist Pat Robertson? He has declared one of the tele-tubbies to be gay because 1. it's lavender, 2. it has an inverted triangle on its head and 3. it carries a handbag.

I am not making this up.

Pat Robertson has in the past been a contender for president of the yewnited states.

Lil