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What do you call OS X

How do you pronounce OS X.

  • OS 'TEN'

    Votes: 68 51.1%

  • OS 'X'

    Votes: 65 48.9%
  • Total voters
    133
IntelliUser said:
Saying "Ou S Ex" is utterly wrong and retarded. You don't say "Vindows" or "Windovs," do you?

I don't see why you would insist on pronouncing it incorrectly. It's very, very, very stupid.
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People who think they know everything are very amusing to those of us who actually do. 😉
 
Hahaha....uh...oh wait...

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Mac OS 7, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, Mac OS 10

You don't say Mac OS "Vee-I-I", "Vee-I-I-I" or "I-Ex" so why do people say "Ex"?
 
aiqw9182 said:
Mac OS 7, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, Mac OS 10

You don't say Mac OS "Vee-I-I", "Vee-I-I-I" or "I-Ex" so why do people say "Ex"?
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With that mindset, why do people call it Snow Leopard as opposed to 10.6? I don't see why people get worked up over it

People say "ex" because that is what Apple wrote....X....not 10
 
dukebound85 said:
With that mindset, why do people call it Snow Leopard as opposed to 10.6? I don't see why people get worked up over it

People say "ex" because that is what Apple wrote....X....not 10
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That's the dumbest argument I've ever heard. Code names have nothing to what we are talking about.

Apple wrote the roman numeral X, which is ten, not "ex". The concept really isn't that difficult to grasp.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is just fooling themselves. When the companies own CEO says "ten" with a huge picture above him with an X there's no more arguing you can go into.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko4V3G4NqII
 
aiqw9182 said:
That's the dumbest argument I've ever heard. Code names have nothing to what we are talking about.

Apple wrote the roman numeral X, which is ten, not "ex". The concept really isn't that difficult to grasp.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is just fooling themselves. When the companies own CEO says "ten" with a huge picture above him with an X there's no more arguing you can go into.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko4V3G4NqII
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I will call it how I see fit and seeing as it is very popular slang for the OS, I don't think I am in trouble of not having people understand what I am talking about
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dukebound85 said:
Well yea, I have always known it was technically wrong. Just that I don't really care

This thread asked what do you call it and I replied by "ex"
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I don't care with what you replied to in the thread, you replied to me specifically. Also you aren't technically wrong, you are just wrong.
 
aiqw9182 said:
I don't care with what you replied to in the thread, you replied to me specifically. Also you aren't technically wrong, you are just wrong.
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LOL, no, when semantics are at play it is all about technically right or wrong. But then again, I am the rebel who says "ex" and "itouch" despite using macs for nearly 20 years and haven't had misunderstandings yet. Quite amazing
 
dukebound85 said:
LOL, no, when semantics are at play it is all about technically right or wrong. But then again, I am the rebel who says "ex" and "itouch" despite using macs for nearly 20 years and haven't had misunderstandings yet. Quite amazing
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That's great, I hope you enjoy being a "rebel" who knows he's wrong. Must be fun living in denial.
 
aiqw9182 said:
That's great, I hope you enjoy being a "rebel" who knows he's wrong. Must be fun living in denial.
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aiqw9182, life's to short to worry about these trivial things. I really do hope topics like this don't bother you too much in day to day dealings.

If this is what counts as living in denial, it's not bad at all😉
 
aiqw9182 said:
You responded to me. Not the other way around.
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No, I quoted a post in a thread that questioned why people call it "ex" stating a large reason is that they brand the OS with a huge "X". I was not responding to you, aiqw9182, personally

I am not the one concerned with what people call it in the least. Call it 10, SL, ex, whatever, as long as I know what you are talking about, we are golden.
aiqw9182 said:
Living in denial of how to say something correctly just to be a "rebel".
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When I said "rebel", I was making fun of the situation
 
dukebound85 said:
No, I quoted a post in a thread that questioned why people call it "ex" stating a large reason is that they brand the OS with a huge "X". I was not responding to you, aiqw9182, personally

I am not the one concerned with what people call it in the least. Call it 10, SL, ex, whatever, as long as I know what you are talking about, we are golden.

When I said "rebel", I was making fun of the situation
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No, you quoted my post and even said "that mindset" then brought up the name Snow Leopard which had nothing to do what I was talking about. If you did not want to respond to me then you should have responded to the entire thread and you shouldn't have quoted me.

I don't care either, as long as people who call Mac OS X, "ex" know they are wrong.
 
I call it 'OS X'. The X is such an integral part of its brand identity, and I see no reason to treat it a version number; Apple certainly doesn't and new, major releases of OS X are versions of OS X, not OS 11, OS 12, and so on.
 
Cybbe said:
I call it 'OS X'. The X is such an integral part of its brand identity, and I see no reason to treat it a version number; Apple certainly doesn't and new, major releases of OS X are versions of OS X, not OS 11, OS 12, and so on.
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"X" as a letter is certainly not an integral part of the identity; rather, it is a version number, i.e., 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, etc.
 
Cybbe said:
I call it 'OS X'. The X is such an integral part of its brand identity, and I see no reason to treat it a version number; Apple certainly doesn't and new, major releases of OS X are versions of OS X, not OS 11, OS 12, and so on.
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What about OS' prior to OS ten? OS 9 had both OS 9.1 and 9.2 you know... Considering that the CEO calls it "OS ten" I see no reason why it should be called otherwise... OS ten has 10.1, 10.2, etc. just like OS 9 had.
 
Well, according to my principle OS X isn't an animal. She was talking about Snow Leopard, and instead of say Leopard, she said Leo-Pard, and insisted that it's not an animal and how that would be silly of Apple.

I was laughing my head off!
 
millertime021 said:
How do you say OS X when you say it out loud.

I've heard it both ways, but I was really wondering how the hardcore Mac users say it, as I work and live with Windows people.
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Open a window with Terminal, in the Utilities folder... type, without the quotes, "say os x" and press enter... the computer will tell you what it calls itself...

OS Ten
 
bobr1952 said:
I suppose for many of us who never had an OS-9, OS-X works best. I don't particulary like the way OS-10 sounds so I'll probably stick with what sounds best even if it is not technically accurate.
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It's not about you being "technically accurate" it's about you being completely wrong and you and anyone else that calls it "OH ES EX" is completely wrong, at that point you're calling it what's it's NOT. There's only one way to pronounce it and it's called OH ES 10 because the X is a roman numeral. You know it now from reading it on this thread, if you choose to keep calling it OH ES EX then you're making up names for it yourself.
 
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