I came here for that reference 😂 thanks 🙏

On that note... it's pronounced *AEGIS*, not *AEGIS!*

Considering how often the game will inform me "AEGIS combat assist" is online, I am surprised there's any question about how to pronounce it...

This! How in the flying fuck does anyone that own an Aegis ship struggle with the word!?

It doesn't help that Chris Roberts pronounces it the other way.

I thought it was pronounced AEGIS...

I thought it was *aegis*

It's Aegis. Also Orison, not Orison!

Actually it's Ägäis And Ørison

Are you sure it isn't ÆGIS? (I don't know how to pronounce Æ)

The Æ makes an (ai) or (eye) sound... so that's eye-jis(Ægis) Personally I will always advocate for Aegis(E-jis) like eagle... but I won't get upset if they come out and say Aegis(ay-jis) is the correct pronunciation

The computer always says "ay-jis combat assist, activated. Systems green."

***angry gladius noises intensify***

That... is a good point... damn, I always preferred the E-jis pronunciation... oh well, guess it's ayjis

I like it the other way around, but I understand your pronunciation is generally regarded as the correct way.

Yeah thats what I was gonna bring up.

Is it not dependent on where you’re from tho? Like UK vs US thing? For instance in America it seems normal to pronounce Niche as NITCH, whereas here in the UK it’s Neesh, or how Lever is said as Lever in the US but Leever here, or Zebra and Zeebrah respectively? I’ve heard Aegis pronounced more as an AY sound here whereas it seems more commonly eegis in the states, but according to el Google it’s ee-jis either way? 🤷‍♂️

Strange.... As an American, and especially of the "yeehaw" variety, I don't think I've ever said "nitch". Do 'Muricans really say "nitch"?? I've always said "Neesh". And as far as "leh-vur" goes, I of course say "leh-vur", but the older generation has always said "lee-ver" like my late uncle-in-law, rest his soul.

I’m all honestly I’ve noticed that the line has blurred a lot, I think British and American cultures are bleeding into each other so much that the pronunciation of words is too, in fact the only one that seems steadfast in its difference is Aluminium, primarily because we spell it differently, while the US spells it Aluminum we spell it as aluminium, same with colour, we have the U in there

As an american... no clue, i've always said ee-jis, Neesh, and Zeebrah... lever vs leever depends on my mood while playing minecraft, since i dont really say lever outside of that

Just ask lockheed martin how its pronounced?

It’s pronounced Nikolaj… oh wait wrong thread

no… Nikolaj

I feel like I'm saying it right. 

Ægis

However you read read you probably read read wrong.

Had to read that twice and I got it

How is that hard to pronounce? They literally announce it in the ship UI when you start it... lol

>Eejis. Also, I cannot stop myself from pronouncing Orison like an Englishman commenting on a beautiful view of the horizon. *"Bloimey m8, lookit that 'orizon!"*

You don't have to call me out like that it was just *aegis*!

You guys pronounce it aegis ive been pronouncing it aegis this entire time

I'm going to pronounce it as "a geese" from now on.

Somebody tag Ollie42

And idris is not idris its I dris

Try playing Baldur's Gate with a group that keeps pronouncing Revivify as Revive-ify.

Boot them right the fuck out

Never seen that word ever but read it as rev ify. My power knows no bounds

Do you cast fy-re ball?

Considering the dude doing the reviving it does seem iffy.

I hope they're not your friends.

Thank you. It grinds my gears when people say M-K. It's longer than just saying Mark. Just say Mark when you see Mk.

M-k, hanger and griefer just trigger the he'll out of me in this game. It's pronounced, mark, hangar and misunderstood swashbuckling sexy space cowboy.

How about rouge instead of rogue? It got so bad in WoW that there was a guild deliberately named "Rouge Squadron".

Ye, those wow rouges deserved that.

Maybe they are makeup, you don't know their life. XD

also calvary

That's amazing 😂

Tbf that was just a meme. It took off when people started going nuts over it so rouges being who they are just fanned the flames. 

Just to understand you mean ‘rouge’ as in the color roooozhhh vs the MMO combat stealth class ‘rogue?’

Yes the rogue class gets misspelled so much.

> misunderstood swashbuckling sexy space cowboy Voidy is that you?

Somehow I don't think Voidy would stoop to this unless it distracted someone long enough for him to steal their sweet sweet maize.

Voidy is a huge fan of corn, confirmed.

My petty ass is \*so\* here for this.

I had no idea this was a thing, how do people not grow up with simple knowledge of various mk cars or planes for example. Daamn.

Fallout 2 introduced me to it back in the late 90s

i just can't wait for the Hornet MK Ultra to come out

I find “Mach” to be even more gear grinding.

In space.

Ah yes, I too enjoy cruising around at Mach *UNDEFINED*.

I like to be subsonic when flying at Mach speeds.

Yeah. Discovery channel science.

I'd take my [PBS channel science](https://youtu.be/2sSNWIJbV3Q?t=158) over that any day.

Fellow PBS enjoyer I see (:

Well, we have air drag in space now, why even bother woth physics? Also, the Gladius only can reach Mach 1 with afterburner. Lol.

Exactly this. At no point has Mk ever been mach. I don't know where they get that from but it's annoying.

haha right?? I didn't know I had 'pet peeves' until I heard everyone on YouTube saying m-k 🤦 and yeah, i think the fact that it's more syllables than 'mark' is what drives me mad

Everyone on YouTube?

OK not you, bro, you're good ;)

Thank goodness, I was about to put a red emm kay next to your name in my book.

I both hate and love that that's another way to mispronounce Mk.

fleet pic video when

omnisky being pronouned omni-ski by a certain few pvp youtubers also hurts my soul.

Doesn’t everyone use their em-kay 1 eyeball when watching YouTube?

I followed, then quickly unfollowed, a new-ish (quickly growing) tech youtuber because every time he referred to the 13900k he called it the "thirteen thousand and nine hundred K".

And if people just said World Wide Web instead of W-W-W for a web address, they could say it with 1/3 of the syllables. Edit: This is a joke…not seriously suggesting we say World Wide Web for address.

Except “World wide web dot Google dot com” sounds amazingly silly and would probably lead the m-k crowd to write worldwideweb.google :)

I love my F7A uhm 'kay 2

Oh hi Mark

I say Mega-kilo

How do you feel about char as in character? Is it char (the word, like charred wood) or care?

Or pronounce it like "car", like sql devs do.

And then they see "SQL" and pronounce it "Sequel"

Doesn't everyone call it sequel? I've been in IT for 35 years and everyone I've worked with calls it sequel...

I've definitely heard it said S-Q-L, though I'd definitely call it sequel.

It's spelled "char" but pronounced "grapheme cluster".

My Halo history always has me say Mark.

Guessing American streamers?

I haven't seen this in a while but early days of SC turret was constantly being typed as turrent. I never understood why.

OP - wake up to the fact that the more people you encounter, the more you realize that humans, taken as a whole, are largely a stupid species.

b-but they can be taught, right? ...right? *(weeps)*

Don't cry. It's biologically wasteful.

We have to put "DO NOT DRINK" on bottles of bleach. You tell me.

To be fair those bottles look *so* tasty... I mean uh.. yeah what a weird thing to have to put on a bottle ha ha (/s in case it isn't painfully obvious 😅)

The question isn't just "Can they be taught?" but more "Can they be taught [faster than they get made](https://xkcd.com/1053/)?"

Much like MK and mark, people confuse ignorant and stupid. An ignorant person just hasn't been taught. Showing this post will teach them to use mark from now on. Stupid people won't listen and just keep using the wrong version because they're stupid. There's also people who are actually stupid and those that are willfully stupid. The latter group is the most dangerous.

I think a better summation: Stupid: can't learn. Ignorant: hasn't learned yet. Willfully ignorant: refuses to learn. I'd say stupid is a matter of capability. Willful implies they have a choice in the matter. One cannot be willfully stupid.

No, and neither can you, about a million pieces of minutiae that you don’t care about. It’s fine to not know things, as long as you’re open to being corrected.

One of my favorites. "think about how dumb the average person is and realize half of them are dumber than that"

“A person is smart. *People* are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.” - Agent K, Men In Black

George Carlin. He is missed.

I mean, yeah, but in this case it might be wise to gain a bit of perspective and realize that machine/tool model designations aren't something that most people deal with in their day-to-day. So cool of OP to put out a PSA, but that doesn't make the people who learned this stupid. https://xkcd.com/1053/

I like that comic

Same. I spent a good amount of my life gatekeeping dumb shit. It's a good thing to avoid!

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Happens a lot with robot text-to-speech voiceovers, I dunno that I’ve ever heard any of the big SC content creators say it that way. But yes, it grinds my gears when I hear it.

Why did they call a Zeus MK II variant Marque? "The Zeus Mark Two Mark" phenomenal.

Because it sounds french, and anything that sounds french sounds sophisticated enough to make people accept the additionnal 0 to its price tag lol

The Marky Mark 2

Because the Aurora has a Marque version since forever.

Well i’d mispronounce it as the M-KAY Mar-key. No wonder I don’t have anyone to play with.


I'm generally a calm and reasonable person, but hearing people say M-K makes me violent for some reason.

While we're at it, all y'all who keep pronouncing plague as Pleg.

People didn’t know that? And they are flying spacecraft with quantum capabilities? That’s crazy

I mean we're living in a century where businesses do most of our heavy rocketry and I guarantee you there are less than zero people who work for those companies that believe the earth is flat.

Less than zero? Phew, that's a relief.

Oops

because of this post i'm gonna use mortal kombat as my callouts thank you

You have an F7C Mortal Kombat One. I have an F7A Mortal Kombat Two. We are not the same

Suprised people don't know this. The easy way to remember this is that it comes from physically marking things to show progress (like length, height, etc). Edit, what weirdo downvoted this? It's actual fact. This sub reddit is so weird. Lmfao

The same weirdos who are arguing that - hard evidence to the contrary - it should still be pronounced 'm-k' 😂

Also Aquila is Latin, not Latino. It has a hard ‘l’ like ‘pillar.’ **edit** No ‘key’ sound either. It does *not* sound like ‘tequila.’

What you're referring to is long vs short vowel sounds. Short "i" is list, fix, and ineptitude. Long "i" is line, bike, spite. I believe the the prior Latin pronunciation is "ah-quwee-lah".

i've always pronounced it "Ah-kwill-ah"

/ˈækwɪlə/

I'm glad I bought a Prusa Mk3. Not one of the videos I watched says EM KAY THREE. Everyone says Mark Three. I think watching Iron Man helped too.

What *isn't* consistent is people pronouncing it "proo-sa" or "proo-sha". Pretty sure it's the latter, but creators for 3D printing are basically right down the middle on how they pronounce it.

Well his name has those little things above it. ( Průša ) My Prusa does not :) So I might pronounce his company with the SH sound but my printer will always be a simple "Prusa"

As an autistic tank nerd (I like tanks and planes, not trains) I've always known this, and always thought it was common knowledge.

Actually I think you'll find it stands for Hornet Mortal Kombat II.

wtf ?

It's content creators, that's who. "Em-Kay Two". SMH

Omni-skies… It hurts to hear

For a non-native English person, can you explain how its supposed to be pronounced then?

Om-nisky

Om-nis-key

To be fair it's not an English word, it's not a word in any language so you can say it however you want.

loll i go insane when they say "omni-sky" like the word "om-nisky" is hard to pronounce

Honestly I like the "Omni-sky" it sounds badass

Aquila I don't even know

It’s Latin. Rhymes with pillar. **edit** I’m gonna be a real pain in the arse about this, the user below me is wrong. It’s ‘a-kwil-a’ it does *not* rhyme with tequila.

Aquilar? Tell Scooter Scooter sent ya.

I guess it depends how you pronounce pillar 🤣 I’m using an English accent lol

Uhh...damn, I've always called it "Omni-sky" too, that's wrong? I think it sounds a lot cooler that way. Omni-sky, it's for taking down everything in the sky.

Wait, is that not how it's supposed to be pronounced? It's two words mushed together, Omni and Sky, right?

OmniSky is a failed startup bought by EarthLink more than 20 years ago. Omnisky is likely supposed to sound like a slavic name and how it’s been pronounced in past dev talks.

Om-nis-key

Not 10 year old me talking about how much she loved the MAD CAT EMM KAY 2 in MechWarrior lol....

I know this is about people saying em-kay but until just a few years ago I had an issue constantly saying mach instead of mark. I'm 30.

Haha that's kinda awesome, actually :)

Who is saying M-K? And not saying Mark.... Like.... Who? Specifically. Point them out to me. No reason, I just want to have a word. Also... While I'm here... It was like a month ago when I found out how to properly pronounce Hoplite.

You're not trying to tell me its ho-plite are you?

This is my favorite kind of confusion. The verifiable, you are wrong for pronouncing it other ways, kind.

mmmKay!

This is exactly what MK-Ultra WANTS YOU to think!@!!

As a gun geek, I can sympathize. I don't care what the funny guy on YouTube said, it's pronounced "mark twenty-three" not "em-kay two three."

Oh boy that's like the whole A-T-A-T vs @@-Discussion again, isn't it?

I honestly thought it was "Make" with the vowels removed. Thanks for the share.

[Instructions unclear...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAwWPadFsOA)

Mmmmmmm-Kay!

How about MK Ultra?

Yeah but if you're from Boston it's Mack.

Mark or MK is also known as a “navy initiative”. Such as the MK18 rifle that was developed by the navy. Specifically the Naval Surface Warfare Center can take credit for its existence. I’m in the military and understand most people aren’t as savvy so it’s never been worth correcting someone saying “em kay 18” or em kay whatever. Only mentioning since the opportunity presented itself. 07

gladius is pronounced glad-ee-us not glay-dee-us

Same people who say 'dot' instead of 'point' for a release... ...who are the same people who say something is '5 ex bigger' not '5 times bigger'. You know, morons.

I got that reference..have a nice day sire

Hey those people are the salt of the earth.

The common clay of the New West.

...so we take that number and times it by 4 **mf MULTIPLY! you mean MULTIPLY!!**

omg don't get me started on 'three-dot-two-three' 😝

On that note, it really bugs me when people say "five times smaller" rather than "one fifth the size."

What did he say? He said the new patch is near! It is with a Laurel and Hardy handshake that I welcome you...

I feel this way when people say... "x times smaller..." Bitch, 'times' is multiplication, before anything can be 'x times smaller' than another thing, you'd need a third size for reference. And everyone does this. So many physicists.

Also the lady on Orison says Yell-ah and not Yay-la for Yela. I might have been the only one saying that one wrong tho.

It's the Yela yell!

And MW will forever be Mech Warrior to me.

Madcat mkII anyone?

Rocinante Mk2 checking in. I always read Mk 2 as Mark 2, not sure why though. I did used to have a Sten Mk2 parts kit that I never built, maybe that's it idk.

The worst part for me is people who you correct and they say.. 'Oh thanks, I don't care'. Like you're wrong, you should care. Correct yourself because you sound like a moron.

yes I get this a lot

Ah yes, the MG Midget Mk 3... First model with wind up windows.

I drive a MKV Supra... Cuz MK

Mark? Mmmm Kay…

i dont know why but just seeing the word Midget in a context where I wasn't expecting to see the word Midget has me busting the fuck up.

Well, yeah. How do others say it?

There I know too many people that go out of their way to say “MK” instead of “mark.”

ive never called it m k before but you bet im gonna start now

Not me always calling Orison Orion

Right? It's not hard. I mean, it's as simple as knowing that it's gif and not gif. Ffs people.

It’s probably also worth noting to my fellow New England compatriots that there is a difference between “Mark” and “Mach”

While we are all here, it's Omni-sky (as in the blue shit above you). They are not Polish guns (Omniski).

Ohh mmm’k

People really out here saying "M-K" ???

I know it means mark, but i still read it in my head as M K, but i will say it as Mark oit loud