What is a “westerner”?
Apparently people who speak English
The French, Polish, Dutch, etc. are now reclassified as Asians
I love to poke at people’s conception of Western with these questions:
Is New Zealand Western?
Is Japan Western?
Is Brazil Western?
Is South Africa Western?
Is Kenya Western?
Is Lebanon Western?
Is Israel Western?
Is Hungary Western?
Is Finland Western?
Is Russia Western?
Is Armenia Western?If your nation was within NATO, it’s likely western If after the collapse of the USSR, your nation joined EU, it’s likely western And anything outside this category would be third world or eastern (Russia, China, Vietnam)
I realise you were just offering a hueristic, but Ironically all of the three countries you listed were Second World nations. (I’ve also never heard Eastern used in a similar way to Western in the way you used it at the end there before.)
Australia isn’t Western then, but Romania is?
Canadians here.
It’s “double-you”, but if spoken quickly, it can become “dub-you”
Non native speaker, and both of those hold true for me as well. Unless I’m referencing a hostname with www in it; then I just say dub-dub-dub
I still stick the yous in there, haha
I used to, until I realized Moxie Marlinspike doesn’t, so I stopped for easier pronounciation.
I am fancy, so I say double ewe.
Normal conversational speed: dubya
Enunciating: double you
Need to be unambiguous: whiskey
Tell me you are from the south without telling me you are from the south
More like duba-you instead of dubya in normal conversation.
“Double U”.
Or if I’m saying it fast, as in “www.google.com”, it’s “dub-you”
Double you
I’ve always wondered why it’s not double v, but I say double you
I looked into it once before, the short answer is because the letter predates the distinction between “u” and “v”.
Edit: Here’s a comment I made a while ago on the same topic with a little more information: https://lemmy.world/comment/10659648
In French, it is!
I think it’s because of how the letter is written in cursive that we call it ‘double u’.
Dubya
George Dubya
Way to complicated, just say “we” with the w from way and the e from hell like we Germans do.
Another great example of our German efficiency! Warum zur Hölle soll das ein Doppel-V sein? Habt’s ihr alle Lack gesoffen?
Aber “fau” macht Sinn ja?
Ja, genauso wie Ypsilon
Way
It probably depends on the accent, but we say “Double U”.
Doubleyou
Double you.
Double you
Kansan here. It’s pronounced “double-you,” but my mouth tends to skip past the L so it sounds more like “dub-you” or “dub-yə”
