Brian Williams is an animal

[gwyn]

OMG, 30 Rock tonight. I have always loved the Brian Williams jokes they make ("the man's an animal"), but I never expected him to actually cameo on the show. It was hilarious and unexpected, which is always the best kind of guest spot. I 3> Tina Fey and her writing team.

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This is my first attempt at a crosspost. I have no idea what to expect. The other night, a bunch of us were discussing what we would call Dreamwidth in speech. Most people say ell-jay for LJ, and it's a lot easier to say LJ than LiveJournal. However, Dreamwidth is easier to say than dee-dubble-you, which means that the initialism of DW isn't convenient nor does it trip off the tongue liltingly.

Sandy (sherrold) was heading in a direction that took me a minute to figure out, but then I realized she was getting at dee-dub, which I suggested should work. Like we say vee-dub for VW, Volkswagen. (Of course, if you were German, you would not say vee-dub, but that's beside the point.) So we believe it should be dee-dub for short. I like that, it's compact and it has history in the whole vee-dub thing.

I like it. And I'm not sure if we can even do polls here, so I won't attempt it, but what do you think? Dee-dub for the win, y/y?

Comments

[kass]

I like dee-dub. Nice work. :-)

Written on the page, my first inclination is DW but then I remember that those initials mean "Doctor Who" to a lot of people. (Not that this kind of initial confusion is new; I remember when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows came out, and I was hunting for "DH" posts and was kind of perturbed that so many of the ones I found were about David Hewlett, on whom I did not yet have a mammoth crush at that time. Hee.) So I'm kind of inclined to use dw, lowercase, not unlike lj...

[bientot.livejournal.com]

Of course the ultimate is www, in which a three-syllable title is abbreviated to a nine-syllable acronym (causing it to be called dub-dub-dub instead, which is just stupid). Dee-dub sounds fine to me.

Old joke: If the answer is 9W what is the question?
"Herr Wagner, do you spell your name with a V?"