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[–] pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 38 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I keep reading it as "slurp-ink," personally.

[–] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For me, it's "Slurpnik". You'll have to ask Vlad or Igor what it means, I guess.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Same, I keep imagining it as some variation on ‘beatnik’.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago
[–] bryndos@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

"slurp ink motherfucker" sounds like what an octopus says when you piss it off.

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I read it like it sounds. Like "Sputnik", but Slrpnk.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 24 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Is it the same people that pronounce SQL as "sequel"?

[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait, do you actually say the letters every time? Just think of how many syllables you've wasted in aggregate over the years!

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I usually just don't talk, that saves even more syllables

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I spent 20 years working as a sys admin, moving to new offices around the globe every few years. No matter which country I worked in, every single sys admin I've ever worked with always pronounced it "sequel." I've never met anyone in real life who spelled out the letters when speaking it.

Squeeeeel for me

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When it's obviously "school?"

[–] aeiou@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

you mean it's not 'squeal'?

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago

I think you mean "ass quail"

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone on here the other day said it's actually squirrel

[–] Blemish5236@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I pronounce it squill

[–] thisfro@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My first Fediverse instance!

[–] bryndos@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago
[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Slurp NK (North Korea)

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

At first glance my mind always replaces the r with a c and I think we’re talking about the 1998 classic SLC Punk.

I've been reading it as Slur Punk. Still not as bad as reading CNT-FAI as Cunt Fay.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 7 points 2 days ago

You mean it's not SLR punk, in reference to the cameras?

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I keep accidentally seeing “shipwreck.”

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Doesn’t work because only vowels are removed. For slurp neck to work it’d need to be slrpnck. You know, with a C!

tsk.

Shoddy memeing from someone named @NickwithaC@lemmy.world

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

It's always been "slur punk" for me XD

[–] GoldAxolotl@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Kenny2999@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Would listen.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago
[–] 30p87@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I always read it as "s-l-r-p- oh fuck it, whatever, what a fucking random ass name is that"

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

It's always been an otomotopoea (really fucked the spelling on that) to me. Like, the sound of someone sliding a can across the floor and into a bell. Sluuuuurrrrrrrrrr pink

[–] Klear@quokk.au 2 points 2 days ago

Oh! That's what it means!