Who in the hell calls a GUI a "Gooey"?!

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MrFigg
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12 Jun 2022

Just watched a YouTube video of a guy reviewing a plugin and when referring to the GUI he was calling it a Gooey. He said it over and over again and I was thinking who the hell calls it a Gooey, apart from that guy (gooey) of course? Is that a thing?
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12 Jun 2022

Yes,I call it Gooey
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Everyone else. How do you pronounce it?

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Heater wrote:
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Everyone else. How do you pronounce it?
Gee You Aye.
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MrFigg wrote:
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Heater wrote:
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Everyone else. How do you pronounce it?
Gee You Aye.
Like Jee!
You’re the only person I know who pronounced it that way. It’s Goo-ee

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MrFigg wrote:
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Heater wrote:
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Everyone else. How do you pronounce it?
Gee You Aye.
Like Jee!
lol... that's how I have always called it... Gooey sounds silly !
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I am French, so I call it a user interface because I don't a f.... Idea of how to pronounce it right 😅
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Jac459 wrote:
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I am French, so I call it a user interface because I don't a f.... Idea of how to pronounce it right 😅
Mais oui, c’est vrai. I’ll s’appelle graphical user interface.
Yeah that’s right people. Le Figg parlez Francaise.
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12 Jun 2022

Initialism for me here as well. GUI as an acronym sounds gooey.

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MrFigg wrote:
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Jac459 wrote:
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I am French, so I call it a user interface because I don't a f.... Idea of how to pronounce it right 😅
Mais oui, c’est vrai. I’ll s’appelle graphical user interface.
Yeah that’s right people. Le Figg parlez Francaise.
Very well I must say 😅👍
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12 Jun 2022

Goo-ey. But more often just "U.I."

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🏁 Le Figg, look at you, Mr polyglot!

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huggermugger wrote:
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Goo-ey. But more often just "U.I."
Then…
Shouldn’t UI be pronounced “you-ee”?
(Or should GUI be pronounced “goo-eye” if UI is pronounced “you-eye”???)
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12 Jun 2022

Team G-U-I here 🤘

I agree that "gooey" is wrong in so many ways lol. First, it sounds silly. Also it's an ''I" pronounced "eye". But then if it's going to be pronounced like a word, why not "gwee"? 😂 "Gooey" is like a combo of wanting to make it a word, but not fully committing and still wanting it to be an acronym, but saying the acronym wrong.

Telling me that GUI = gooey is like trying to explain your bad vanity license plate to me because better options were taken 😜

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Jac459 wrote:
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Mais oui, c’est vrai. I’ll s’appelle graphical user interface.
Yeah that’s right people. Le Figg parlez Francaise.
Very well I must say 😅👍
Hahaha. Thanks. Long before I moved to Sweden and learned Swedish I had a girlfriend from Lyon and another from Grenoble. My French was pretty good. When I started learning Swedish though everything just started melting into one big foreign language So much so that when I met a group from Quebec in Falun and tried speaking French it just didn’t work for anyone concerned. I can still watch French films and see that the Swedish subtitles don’t match with what the actors are saying but that’s about it. Guess I was in France for three or four days it’d come back. My girlfriend always looks at me funny when I’m on the phone to my Scottish friends and start speaking Swedish to them without being aware of it :).
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12 Jun 2022

gooey here

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12 Jun 2022

We call it [gu'i:], or even ['gui] in Russian. Yes, it sounds silly and indecent in the latter version (it resembles one obscene word), but you can't help it.

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12 Jun 2022

G U I
U I

it's very simple anything else is just someone trying to sound hip ;)

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At least 'gooey' is better than 'scuzzy', and much easier to pronounce than WYSIWYG! ;)

Next up, how to pronounce GIF…
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selig wrote:
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At least 'gooey' is better than 'scuzzy', and much easier to pronounce than WYSIWYG! ;)

Next up, how to pronounce GIF…
It’s PGIF. It has a silent P. As you also have in pswimming pool.
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selig wrote:
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'scuzzy'
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12 Jun 2022

I'm definitely goo-ey. And a bit squashy too.

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12 Jun 2022

Definitelyl G-U-I ;-) In terms of scuuuuzy both is viable :-D "GIF" is a "GUIF" :-)

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