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how do you people pronounce FUXXOR ffs?

the key concept in grasping how to pronounce FUXXOR is that one never pronounces FUXXOR aloud and simply elides it as gracefully as possible within one's interior monologue

a beautiful example of the pin/pen merger in Southern English:

there actually two variants of this merger ime -- the upper south where both are pronounced "pin" and the lower south where both are pronounced "pen" ... idk my friends from Tennessee and Texas say "pen/pen" and my dad from West Virginia says "pin/pin" (or sometimes pi-uhn/pi-uhn such that it is two syllables)

I can definitely hear that two-syllable southern "pin" in my head. It's subtle, but it's there.

I doubt I've ever said ilxor, but I imagine it to be ilk-sore.

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My partner refers to it as ick-sell-Orr on the scant occasions when it calls for being said out loud

I read that as "incelcior"

wow my ilm poll is a transparent ripoff of this one, i blame being very tired all the time

ilxelsior

I read that as "incelcior"

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lol

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No. Try again.

wtf, who are you people?

But OL, I do not mentally pronounce ilx or ILX as "ilks", but as "eye-ell-eks", based on its stepwise derivation from the acronyms of its many boards using the formula I Love (x), e.g ILM, ILE, ILB, ILF, etc. Once having accepted "eye-ell-eks" as good and proper reflection of its acronymic, rather than phonemic, provenance, it is but a baby step to "eye-ell-eks-or". QED

Thank you, fellow eye-ell-ex-ors!

Stop, no, this is so wrong.

Look, I will accept 'ill-zor' as a compromise, but that's my final offer.

the dominant culture's gonna dominate, OL. that's what dominant cultures do.

xp how is eye-ell-ex-or any different from Ill-Egg-Zur

enunciation

Dominant culture should be deeply ashamed rn. Sad times. Sad times.

I’m taking this as a positive omen for Tuesday!

Elixir.

Guess I'm wrong

That's a beautiful thought, Mark. It is sad that it is wrong, but what can you do.

there is no correct way to pronounce ilxor because the x could be anything. the x could contain the set of all letters that have ever existed, for example

it is known

btw, I Love ILX, because it is a place where I can get away with saying something like "good and proper reflection of its acronymic, rather than phonemic, provenance".

So are a proportion of the population reading “GenXers” as “genkserz”

Another gen x problem!

eye-ell-christ-orz

ILX = eye ell ex
ILXor = elixir

eloquio et dignitate

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you were with me all the while

whereas I go more for the sound at the end of "condor"

Or Falkor.