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How do you pronounce Nintendo's first home console?
- Thread starter Jonathan Lanza
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I thought we settled this
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N.E.S. vs. NESS. Bring the ruckus.
I was watching a bunch of NES commercials, as you do on a chill Tuesday night, and in every single commercial if the console itself is mentioned it is named as the "Nintendo Entertainment System", the "Nintendo", or "N.E.S." They even got the voice actor for Krusty in the Simpsons to do lines...
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Yep, the only reason I use SNES in online conversation is because it's a convenient abbreviation. Same reason I obviously don't say "botw" when speaking, it's Breath of the Wild.
Growing up in the late '80s and early-mid '90s, my siblings and I and our friends all pronounced the NES by its letters, "En-E-Ess" and when the Super Nintendo was released we simply referred to the Super NES the same way, as in "Super En-E-Ess." Outside of that, we would of course just say "Nintendo" and "Super Nintendo." Many years later to hear some people online say "Nez" and "Snez" is just too weird but hey, to each their own.
That's what I do.
I only ever called it "the Nintendo" in the first place.
I do it 3 ways:
1. En-EE-Ess
2. Nintendo Entertainment System
3. The Original Nintendo(even though I know this is wrong in many ways)
I also refer to it as the Famicom, but never the Family Computer.
1. En-EE-Ess
2. Nintendo Entertainment System
3. The Original Nintendo(even though I know this is wrong in many ways)
I also refer to it as the Famicom, but never the Family Computer.
Interchange Ness and Nintendo depending on my mood. I get why it's Nezz for Brits but anyone insisting it be spelled out N-E-S is a loon.
Yes, let me take more time to spell it out than a single syllable.
Yes, let me take more time to spell it out than a single syllable.
Ness. Why pronounced the individual letters of the acronym or say Nintendo when there's a shorter way of saying it lol. The shorter pronunciation is pretty much always what I'll use for most things in life... Maybe it's the inner Australian.
UK here -
Nez
Snez
Nen-Sexy-Phwoar
Gam-Eh-Kewb-Beh
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Piece of shit-U
Switch
Nez
Snez
Nen-Sexy-Phwoar
Gam-Eh-Kewb-Beh
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Piece of shit-U
Switch
Each letter individually; N. E. S.
Super Nintendo is just Super Nintendo. People who use "snes" as a word are uncouth villains.
N64 is N-Sixty-Four.
Gamecube is pronounced Turbographix 16.
Super Nintendo is just Super Nintendo. People who use "snes" as a word are uncouth villains.
N64 is N-Sixty-Four.
Gamecube is pronounced Turbographix 16.
In the '80s, I called it "Nintendo".
In the '90s, I called it "Ness" or "8-bit Nintendo".
Somewhere in the '00s, I started using "En-E-Ess" more but still sometimes say "Ness".
"Nezz" damages my brain.
In the '90s, I called it "Ness" or "8-bit Nintendo".
Somewhere in the '00s, I started using "En-E-Ess" more but still sometimes say "Ness".
"Nezz" damages my brain.
Honestly? yes. If we didn't have a stigma associated with this it would work. People have been doing this shit online and in texts forever with all the "u" and "4" and all of the various initialisms that sprang up over time. English is also really, really dumb and flowery for no reason compared to a lot of other languages, if you translate directly.
I live in the United States of America, but more often than not, I'll say "You Es Ay". Who in the world would pronounce it "Yousah"?
I say "tiv". Why would anyone spend more time pronouncing the letters TV?
Me: "I was thinking of buying a new fork tiv this spring."
Literally everyone: [blank stare]
Me, thinking to myself: They'll get used to it.
Me: "I was thinking of buying a new fork tiv this spring."
Literally everyone: [blank stare]
Me, thinking to myself: They'll get used to it.
