Board 8 > Do you *immediately* know what OoT stands for?

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NeatoAnAccount
08/06/23 1:44:07 PM
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I've been playing OoT and every single time I say "oh I've been playing OoT" people ask me what it's short for. It looks like this acronym has evaporated from the public consciousness. Does b8 still know this acronym?

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foolm0r0n
08/06/23 1:47:58 PM
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If you say it out loud you're cringe

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jcgamer107
08/06/23 1:52:11 PM
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foolm0r0n posted...
If you say it out loud you're cringe

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FFDragon
08/06/23 1:52:42 PM
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1000% cringe

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ZenOfThunder
08/06/23 1:53:54 PM
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I think you're asking the wrong place

maybe ask a general gaming board because we are all advanced nerds here

maybe ask reddit, see if you can find a gaggle of zoomers to ask

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BlueCrystalTear
08/06/23 2:11:47 PM
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OoT is Ocarina of Time. Water is also wet.

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Grand_Kirby
08/06/23 2:12:53 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/7/9/AABtbFAAEutH.jpg

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Grimlyn
08/06/23 2:14:24 PM
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the idea of saying it out loud makes me think of pronouncing it as a word, oot

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changmas
08/06/23 2:23:57 PM
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cannot imagine anyone ever saying "yeah i'm playing oh oh tee" out loud like that

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Nanis23
08/06/23 2:25:14 PM
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Pool result does not disappoint

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Xuxon
08/06/23 2:25:27 PM
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Grimlyn posted...
the idea of saying it out loud makes me think of pronouncing it as a word, oot
That's how I say it out loud.

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paperwarior
08/06/23 2:25:35 PM
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I'm remembering a topic somewhere like "My boyfriend is OOT" and it meant "out of town" but half the replies were about him being Ocarina of Time.

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Dels
08/06/23 2:27:03 PM
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now i'm imagining someone saying out loud "yeah i play double-U oh double-U, it's my favourite MMO"
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paperwarior
08/06/23 2:28:30 PM
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Nobody would say that. It's actually more syllables

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-hotdogturtle--
08/06/23 2:42:54 PM
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If someone in real life verbally said that they were playing Oh Oh Tee I would pretend to not understand them even if I recognized what they meant from context.

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azuarc
08/06/23 2:52:15 PM
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Dels posted...
now i'm imagining someone saying out loud "yeah i play double-U oh double-U, it's my favourite MMO"

No, they just say "wow."

Wait, so are you implying we should refer to OoT as "oot?" Like we're saying out but we're from the upper midwest?

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BlueCrystalTear
08/06/23 2:56:55 PM
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azuarc posted...
Like we're saying out but we're from the upper midwest?
Lies. Nobody actually says "out" as "oot."

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KCF0107
08/06/23 3:01:28 PM
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I want to apologize to everyone for ruining the poll results. I voted for the final option as a joke assuming several others had already done the same. I was wrong.

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Aecioo
08/06/23 3:02:09 PM
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Who is neato again?

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BlueCrystalTear
08/06/23 3:05:50 PM
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KCF0107 posted...
I want to apologize to everyone for ruining the poll results. I voted for the final option as a joke assuming several others had already done the same. I was wrong.
Always check the results first.

But thanks for admitting guilt. A lot of people wouldn't be man enough to do that.

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mnk
08/06/23 3:29:10 PM
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Aecioo posted...
Who is neato again?

An account.

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Mega_Mana
08/06/23 3:32:08 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/7/AAALz5AAEut3.jpg

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Seanchan
08/06/23 3:43:57 PM
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KCF0107 posted...
I want to apologize to everyone for ruining the poll results. I voted for the final option as a joke assuming several others had already done the same. I was wrong.

Thats a minus 10 GotM Cool Points

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Cavedweller2000
08/06/23 3:51:54 PM
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To be honest with you I only knew what you were talking about because of the lower case o.

I'd be less sure if you typed OOT.

I'd also have no idea if you said the letters out loud

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Dels
08/06/23 4:05:56 PM
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-hotdogturtle-- posted...
If someone in real life verbally said that they were playing Oh Oh Tee I would pretend to not understand them even if I recognized what they meant from context.

is it the act of saying it verbally or is it imagining it in an IRL context?

like if a twitch streamer says on-stream that they're playing oh oh tee is it as bad?
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CassandraCain
08/06/23 4:13:27 PM
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I think acronyms work better in text than in speech. I immediately know what OoT stands for but if someone said "oh oh tee" to me out loud I'd probably say "wtf are you talking about" then I'd tell them to just say Ocarina of Time. Because how much time are you actually saving by spelling out the acronym rather than just saying the full title, like one second?

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Grand_Kirby
08/06/23 4:23:56 PM
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I'd probably just say Ocarina instead of "Oh oh tee".

But I have said "oot" in real life. But if you're talking to Zelda players about the series then they know what you're talking about.

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TomNook
08/06/23 4:31:45 PM
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I remember I heard someone pronounce SNES as "snez" in person one time. I had no idea what they were talking about, despite me always calling it SNES in text, as opposed to Super Nintendo.

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Cavedweller2000
08/06/23 4:39:35 PM
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TomNook posted...
I remember I heard someone pronounce SNES as "snez" in person one time. I had no idea what they were talking about, despite me always calling it SNES in text, as opposed to Super Nintendo.
Yeah "Nez" and "Snez" is the most common way to say it in the UK

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Grimlyn
08/06/23 4:54:37 PM
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I remember being caught off guard when a friend said snes as a word in primary school and it took me a sec to know what they mean

I type SNES but I just read "Super Nintendo"

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TomNook
08/06/23 5:18:16 PM
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For SNES in person, I say Super Nintendo.
For NES in person, I say N E S, or something like "original Nintendo system" if it's someone who I dont think would pick up on the context.

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Grimlyn
08/06/23 5:20:01 PM
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Yeah for NES I'll say N.E.S. or the original nintendo

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MacArrowny
08/06/23 5:28:03 PM
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NES is pronounced like Ness (character) imo.

I've said OoT out loud, but only in the context of discussing Zelda games I think.

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Johnny_Eagle
08/06/23 6:25:58 PM
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Seeing it on screen, yeah. In real life it might take a bit to figure it out

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Leonhart4
08/06/23 9:03:05 PM
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Regular Nintendo, Super Nintendo

I'd say the letters NES or SNES if I actually said those aloud

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SHINE_GET_64
08/06/23 9:49:03 PM
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the amount of people in games media who pronounce NES and SNES as Ness and Sness and don't just say N-E-S and S-N-E-S terrifies me

I used to think it was a predominantly west coast thing, but I'm not so sure anymore

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LordoftheMorons
08/06/23 9:57:32 PM
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I say ess-en-ee-ess like a civilized person

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swirIdude
08/06/23 10:03:25 PM
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Oh, I thought it stood for OorT cloud!

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NeatoAnAccount
08/06/23 10:59:14 PM
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Yeah I'm mostly talking on Twitch. When I type the acronym everyone's like "OoT? what is that?" I don't say "oh oh tee" in real life, or even out loud. It's an awkward acronym to say lol

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pjbasis
08/07/23 11:22:30 AM
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KCF0107 posted...
I want to apologize to everyone for ruining the poll results. I voted for the final option as a joke assuming several others had already done the same. I was wrong.

I think the second option would have been funnier

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Nanis23
08/07/23 12:06:26 PM
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Who is the other "no" vote besides KCF?

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Raka_Putra
08/07/23 12:25:36 PM
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I have played very few Zelda games and even I got it.

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Iyami
08/07/23 5:39:20 PM
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Grand_Kirby posted...
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MikeTavish
08/07/23 5:44:09 PM
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Through text OoT is completely normal. Through speech you just do not.

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ctesjbuvf
08/08/23 3:19:15 AM
#45:


It's not exactly the most common logical abbreviation for anything and we're an old gaming board.

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MZero
08/08/23 3:27:00 AM
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Leonhart4 posted...
Regular Nintendo, Super Nintendo

I'd say the letters NES or SNES if I actually said those aloud

I used to say Normal Nintendo and Super Nintendo

but I think I say N.E.S. more now

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mnk
08/08/23 3:41:43 PM
#47:


How does this poll have so many votes.

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XIII_Rocks
08/08/23 6:57:27 PM
#48:


Yes

Also yeah I'm with the topic that saying it aloud is weird

but I'm fine with, say, "MGS2" and said that casually to friends all the time when I was like a teenager. I think I wouldn't say it now but only because the audience I speak to wouldn't know what it is

I guess because OoT is a subtitle, it's more specific

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