i before e except after Microsoft...

[attackgypsy.livejournal.com]

If I hear one more person call it Microsoft VEEESTA today, I'm going to start buying ammo.

Comments

[canray.livejournal.com]

I wanted to shoot things five minutes into trying to figure out Vista.

The computer to start, then the install disk, then a good number of other install disks.

Then take a paintball gun to some MicroSoft Coders.

[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

A paintball gun? Let's try an AK-47. You're gonna want something quick and lethal.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Remember, they get paid per line of code.

(Not really, that was the original version of OS/2)

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

Pfff, with English' silly spelling rules it's no surprise people are confused like the common ghoti.

[tysolna]

Win. :-D

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

VERY true! Don't get me started on cache

[drquuxum.livejournal.com]

Turn into Ren Hoëk and say, "It's 'Vista', you eedeeot!"

As for Vista, the only good thing I see about it is that Robert Fripp created the soundscapes, and that's not a compelling-enough reason for me to use it...let alone support it.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

You're upset that people are pronouncing "Vista" like the word "Vista"?

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

/vista/ and then /vi:sta/, right?

For a second I thought OP wanted them to say /vaysta/.

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

This would be the part where you are infuriated that they are using the Spanish pronunciation, given that "vista" is indeed Spanish for "view"?

I don't get it.

[canray.livejournal.com]

"So, where chu at, BOY?" "Ontario, Canada." "Well hey doggie, was it difficult learning how to speak American so well?" "Oh yes, very much unlike my native tongue."

Yes, this actually happened.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Move to North Florida and they'll all call it Vister.

[canray.livejournal.com]

The Inhell Pentigram 666 Megahertz Chip!

"Demon Inside".

*Evil Grin*

[ateji.livejournal.com]

Kinda like when people were adding extra vowels to Athlon? (Athalon... Athelon... other variations I don't care to recall.)

[liber-cogito.livejournal.com]

Oye. None of my users can pronounce Linksys. Some how it always comes out liankskii.

[wherdafux-d-cat.livejournal.com]

In my pre-IT days, I worked at a newspaper and spent a large portion of time dealing with people who wanted to start/change/cancel their:

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Bleah.

[turningallblue.livejournal.com]

Funny, I just call it "piece of shit OS".

[evilbill1782.livejournal.com]

Micro$haft Windows Shitsta with Infernal Exploder 7...

[aic-weirdo.livejournal.com]

People can't pronounce "Yahoo" correctly (wah-hoo! wah-hoo!); "vista" looks slightly more complicated, so it must be screwed up more. People should just call it "POS" and stop mangling the English language.

[jecook]

Yeah, but if they did that, all the *good* point of Sales terminal companies would get cranky...

(And like other computers, there's good... and... not-so-good POS terminals... We happen to have both at my place...)

[canray.livejournal.com]

Come on, honestly, how many of us actually speak English Properly?

The QUEEN'S ENGLISH!

Without jargon or technical terms.

[110billion.livejournal.com]

I wish it were easier to get guns and ammo here. I'd have gone on a killing spree already, but it's just too much effort in .au

[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

In Texas, that is the proper pronunciation.

Of course, that's bleed-over from our Spanish, but still.

[wherdafux-d-cat.livejournal.com]

No dice. I've been on San Jacinto road in Houston. If you refer to it as 'San Haseento' the locals have no idea what road you're talking about.

[anamacha.livejournal.com]

I wrote a post about this very phenomenon some time ago. Nyargh!