• MTK@lemmy.world
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    59 minutes ago

    I powered on my computer, my app started, which started my main app, which started my essential apps, which started my app that I use to open my other app, which I use to go to my other app that I use to watch other apps being used by otgher people.

    You will get an invisible candy if you can correctly decode this.

  • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    The word app has been around forever, first appearing in the 1970s (according to some dictionaries I just googled). Pendulum swung towards “programs” and we have since swung back to the correct term.

  • someacnt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    The script is compiled to a program which is then executed by the OS.

    ->

    The app is appified to an app which is then apped by the app.

    Damnit.

  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    What I hate even more, is that the morons who can’t read more than two syllables decided to shorten “application” to “app”, but now I only ever hear people reading that as “ay pee pee”! What was the fucking point?

    • houseofleft@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      This, 100% It’s like how people started saying “PC” because personal computer was too long for them, but now I exclusively hear people taking up to a minute on each letter! (peeeeeeee-seeeeeeee)

    • piranhaconda@mander.xyz
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      18 hours ago

      I’ve literally never heard anyone call it A.P.P. (and I mean that literally literally, not figuratively literally)

      Is this a specific cultural thing? A generational thing? Geography based slang? Why would anyone do this.

    • adminofoz@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      I mean, I’m pretty sure this is extremely widespread in China, so I’d say it’s more cultural than anything else. In fact, since there are so many Chinese, that probably means more people call it A.P.P. than app. But I honestly have no clue, and it doesn’t matter to me either way. Words change. It’s nothing to get bent out of shape about.

    • Capsicones@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      Chinese phonology doesn’t allow for the pronunciation of “app”, for example. I see a lot of Chinese people spelling it as “APP”, and pronouncing it accordingly. It’s kinda funny to me, since the Mandarin word “yingyong” is only two syllables. “APP” just seems more cumbersome by all account, yet it has become inexplicably popular.

  • tisktisk@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I hate that this meme never explains what application meant ‘back then’
    I get that it’s a problem now, but if it had a clear enough definition back then, maybe this couldn’t have occurred the way it did?

    • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      I always understood “application” like a gadget in the software world that just resolved one specific problem, and had that own definition till got distorted

  • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Web browser? “app”. Web page? “app”. Dialog box? “app”. Phone app that’s just a thin shell for the web site? “appapp”.

  • ProfessorProteus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I felt like I was alone in being frustrated at this trend. However I found a bit of relief to discover, through messing around in a Win98 virtual machine, that they were occasionally using the term “app” back then as well. Of course it wasn’t as ubiquitous as it is now, but whatever.

    Also I thought I’d never see the Xbox kid meme again. What an unexpected throwback!

  • bier@feddit.nl
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    1 day ago

    In the Netherlands basically everyone uses whatsapp. In the beginning people would say send me a whatsapp or something like that. But pretty quickly people started to shorten it to just app. So people will say stuff like I just got an app (instead of message), it drives me nuts. Like my family chat group is called “app group”.