As webdesigners and developers, much of our work is nonverbal–we simply type it, upload it, and that’s that. But I find that when I’m drafting code, especially very difficult or time-consuming code, I end up saying what I’m typing as I go along (usually under my breath in a really irritated tone, LOL).
As I was debugging a particularly annoying piece of code for my upcoming video games fansite the other day, it occurred to me that I was doing this. Not only that, but I’d come up with some pretty strange pronunciations along the way…pronunciations which my brain considered “correct,” but which sounded pretty silly coming out of my mouth!
Check out the list below, and compare them to your own pronunciations–do any of yours appear here?
My (Strange) Mental Webdesign Pronunciations
- HTML: Hut-mul
- px: Picks
- src: Surc (like “surf” with a “c” at the end)
- CSS: Suss
- $variable: CHA-CHING! variable (I kid you not, I caught myself doing this xD)
- em: um
- href: Huh-reff (all one syllable)
-  : Nus-bup (yes, I know it doesn’t match the spelling, but it works)
- valign: Vee-align
- GIF: Jif (because gif with a “guh” sound at the beginning sounds wrong for some reason)
- ?>: Huh? bracket
- //: Suh-slash
And the piece de resistance…
- if (!isset($var)): if MEEP! izzet CHA-CHING! var
(with “var” pronounced like the first syllable of “varmint”–hey, I’m from the South, all right? xD)
Anybody Else Do This?
Have you ever noticed yourself doing this, or have you come up with your own pronunciations of various webdesign code? Let me know in the comments!