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

Come at me!

  • @leftzero
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    218 days 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
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        317 days 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]
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      117 days ago

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

      • @leftzero
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        217 days ago

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