Right, because Gs are never pronounced with a "J" sound, and acronyms are never pronounced differently than their full terms. Sound logic there; well done. Never mind any of these:

NASA- National Aeronautics Space Uhdministration

NATO- North Ayy-tlantic Treaty Organization

LASER- Light Ayy-mplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

SCUBA- Self Contained Oonderwater Breathing Uhpparatus

FOMO- Fear ohhf missing ohht

ASAP- Ayys soon ayys possible

POC- People ohhf solor

PIN- Personal id-entification number

BOGO- Buy ohhn get ohhn

POTUS- President ohhf the Uhhnited States

YOLO- You only live ohhnce

AWOL- Ayy-bsent without awfficial leave

ICE- Eyemmigration and Sustoms Enforcement

DARE- Drug Ayybuse Resistance Education

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

NASA - National Ah-ronautics and Space Uh-dministration

LASER - Light Ay-mplification by Ztimulated Eh-mission of Radiation

ICE - Eye-mmigration and Sustoms -nforcement (E is silent)

DARE - Drug Ay-buse Resistance -ducation (ditto)

[–] betheydocrime@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For this logic to be consistent you would have to pronounce JPEG as "jayfeg"

[–] Cargon@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's no logic being applied. This is just sports mentality in tech. Like spaces vs. tabs, Emacs vs. vim, Python vs. R, or one of countless others.

But could you imagine if you created a digital standard used by billions everyday and then most people refused to pronounce the name you gave it? Same energy given off by the "anti pronoun" crowd.

[–] pythonoob@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Never thought about it that way. But you're right.

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

National Aeronautics and Space Uhdministration /s

[–] cloudpunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's because words that end with sa, have that uh sound. Like Medusa, salsa, mesa, mimosa

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Right, in other words, acronym pronunciation has nothing to do with how the letters that compose it are pronounced in their respective words.

[–] quibgobbler@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Light aimplification by ztimulated emission of radiation just has a nice ring to it /s

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe that's "uhmission"

[–] quibgobbler@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

You are correct, my apologies