Also, they’ve sucked ever since they stopped having just basic smiley faces.

Come at me!

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    55 months ago

    Ngl I assumed this (pronouncing the letters as letters) was the correct way, because I thought that the Ti had something to do with a little element called Titanium, and last I checked that is how one read symbols on the periodic table.

      • @leftzero
        link
        English
        25 months ago

        I read the Ti in the periodic table as “titanium”, not as “tie”… I mean, if you don’t read them as the names of the elements, what would you even read, say, Pb or Hg as…?

          • @leftzero
            link
            English
            35 months ago

            Yes, of course, but I was trying to point out how claiming it means titanium doesn’t really work as an excuse to pronounce it “tie”; it’s either “tee eye” or “titanium”, but “tie” makes no sense.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          15 months ago

          Right but you wouldn’t say “the symbol for lead is ‘peeb’” you’d say “…P b.”

          • @leftzero
            link
            English
            25 months ago

            Yes, exactly. It’s either tee eye or titanium, but I can’t see how it can possibly be tie.