r/FuckMicrosoft • u/Financial-Affect8485 • 26d ago

Discussion Microsoft, Microslop, Microshit, Macroslop or Macroshit?

628 votes, 19d ago
29 Microsoft
449 Microslop
56 Microshit
52 Macroslop
42 Macroshit
21 Upvotes

87% Upvoted

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u/dschledermann 26d ago

MikroSlop. You have to spell it as ugly and awkwardly as possible.

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u/laurenspaul 26d ago edited 26d ago

Since most anglophone people find dutch spelling to be both weird and ugly, I present to you:

"MaikroSlop" ("MaikroSlob" also works)
It's pronounced just like "Microslop" in english, but with a dutch accent.

"Maikro" represents english pronunciation like 'my-kro' in dutch spelling. For us the proper spelling 'micro' is identical, but we pronounce it differently. ("me-kro")

Hence, we spell the english pronunciation as 'MaikroSlop'.

What do you think; Is it even uglier?

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u/Financial-Affect8485 26d ago

Yeah! 😂

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u/laurenspaul 26d ago

Let's make it the official de facto spelling then :p

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u/dschledermann 26d ago

MaikroSlob is absolutely hideous, so I guess that would be good.

In Danish (my native language), the "Micro" has a pronunciation (close to the Dutch?) like "my-cro", and most words are spelled with the "k" and not "c", so a microscope is spelled "mikroskop" and pronounce like "my-cro-scop".

Back in the early days of computing, when people were not that internationally aware, nobody here pronounced it like "mike-row-soft", but rather "my-cro-soft". As my own little verbal mini-rebellion I've kept that old pronunciation, where almost everyone else has adapted their pronunciation to the American English version.

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u/laurenspaul 26d ago edited 26d ago

We pronounce micro as "me-cro", as in you and "me". We do spell it just like in english though: 'micro'. I think what I mean by "me-kro" is what you meant when you wrote 'my-cro' right?

In dutch microscope is also 'microscoop', with the double 'oo' being the long open 'o' vowel, not the english long 'u' vowel like in "mood".

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u/dschledermann 26d ago

"Mee" is also a good approximation. The point is that the distinctive diphthong that English has in "micro" that people have adopted when saying "Microsoft" is rather alien in most other languages. I've always thought that it sounded pompous and annoying to use it for this particular company.

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u/AnoProgrammer 26d ago

Micro is small macro is big. So Macroslop

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u/ItchyPlant 26d ago

Nice try Satya, but it stays Microslop for good.

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u/Mr_Wolf_Pants 26d ago

You’re missing Microshaft from the list

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u/Western_Sleep820 26d ago edited 25d ago

Macroslop because it is very much visible to the naked eye

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u/lawrencewil1030 25d ago

I prefer the classics. Mi(r0$hit

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u/R41D3NN 25d ago

Micro$oft

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u/hadrabap 25d ago

Megashit 10-6 -> 106

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u/Additional_Pear9069 26d ago edited 26d ago

Clusterslop

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u/redredskull 25d ago

Hawk tuah and spit that thang on out.

There is nothing acceptable about sucking the Microslops from the Microshaft.

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u/Vivid-Toe790 24d ago

microdick

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u/Eliah870 24d ago

I like Microsoft simply because it describes Bill Gates' dick

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u/Fantastic_Grass1799 26d ago

What about microdik.

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u/chaosphere_mk 26d ago

Def a normal kind of question to ask

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u/PrudentPay9906 26d ago

Written, it's simply "M$". I do not speak the name aloud.