By Hugh Langley
Oh internet, will you ever agree on anything? We couldn’t just celebrate the Nintendo Entertainment System’s 30th birthday without it turning into an argument, could we?
Someone on NeoGaf has gone and done it, asking forum dwellers if they pronounce the console’s name as “NES” or “N. E. S.”. Can open. Worms everywhere.
Despite what you might assume, there seems to be a lot of variation in the way people pronounce the name of Nintendo’s 8-bit home console. ‘Vipershark’, for example, insists the “only correct way to pronounce it is N-E-S”. As does Justin Jackson on Twitter.
Liamario, from Ireland, also says “N-E-S” but yields that he/she announces the name of the console’s successor as “SNES”.
But ohhh boy, here comes ‘dose’ with a dose of reality: “So you pronounce a Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation L-A-S-E-R ? Sorry, but you’re talking absolute bulls**t.”
Likewise, ‘MindGamingMantis’ also says “nes like Ness”. ‘krpiper’ is equally confused: “I say Ness like the first part of Nessie what’s this NEZ stuff”
YouTube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=v02WFh_Kdl0
That’s before we’ve even got onto the SNES, which is a whole other territory best avoided. “the SNES is the Super-N-E-S”, says ‘ekim’.
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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