If I hear one more Youtuber referring to an 'M' 'K' 23....

[The_Lord_Poncho]

What is it with at least 50% of You tubers who insist on calling a MK23 (i.e. 'Mark23') pistol an 'M' 'K' 23?!! It makes me cringe every time! Am I being irrationally intolerant? Probably, but I can't help it - I just want to throw stuff at the screen when they do it, and once you've heard them say it the first time, you can't then unhear it for the next 40 times they mention it in the course of the video....

And don't even get me started on the ' Em Kay 18' rifle!

 

[EDcase]

Oops brain translation fail.

I thought you meant they were calling it a 'Mark23' 

Yes, they obviously don't understand that 'MK' means 'Mark' ?

 

[DanBow]

Well since MK is an acronym for Mark ie 'version' then I'd say actually you're wrong...

I know its not the best reference but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_Mark_23

And its referred to as the Mark23 on their own website

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_Mark_23

Its even written on the pistol itself ?

Isnt that what he's saying? They're calling it an M K, pronounced em kay, rather than saying mark. 

 

[Duff Beer]

Wait, you guys aren’t calling it a SOCOM?

 

[Jedi_Master]

Technically MK is only an abbreviation for Mark. It is not an acronym because "MK" does not read as a word unlike RADAR which does.

 

[EDcase]

Oops got the wrong end of the stick there.

Corrected my earlier post

A solution to you're problem is: Don't watch crap youtubers ?

 

[Nick G]

Because all airsoft youtubers are total wankpuffins who should have been strangled at birth .

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

What really grinds my gears is...

People writing "hone in on" when it's "home in on"

The bastards.

 

[Galvatron]

What really grinds my gears is...

People writing "hone in on" when it's "home in on"

The bastards.

I haven't heard someone say it but that would get me too. Not that I defend it but I guess that because SAM, AGM and air-to-air missile deployment terminologies are more prevalent now, "homing missile", which was the standard when I was a wee lad, is less commonly referred to now.

 

[Galvatron]

Am I being irrationally intolerant? Probably, but I can't help it - I just want to throw stuff at the screen when they do it, and once you've heard them say it the first time, you can't then unhear it for the next 40 times they mention it in the course of the video....

Irrational, perhaps but understandable. If you're presenting to educate and inform, you have a duty to name things correctly.

 

 

[Sewdhull]

Well DNA is an abbreviation. I can see why younger people might not realise your supposed to say the whole word, but it's not always the case is it.

 

[Sewdhull]

Maybe they were thinking it was initials, like HK, I dunno.

 

[Skara]

In Italy it's more commonly referred to as "SOCOM" because it's easier to pronounce (and sounds much better, from a language perspective) than Mark 23, mk23 or any other name.

 

[The_Lord_Poncho]

Gosh, I'm glad it isn't just me that gets wound up by silly things then. Also the below just made me spit out my coffee - love it!

Because all airsoft youtubers are total wankpuffins who should have been strangled at birth .

 

[Cannonfodder]

A solution to you're problem is: Don't watch youtubers ?

Fixed

Because all airsoft youtubers are total wankpuffins who should have been strangled at birth .

Pretty much

 

[Sewdhull]

Watching YouTubers play Airsoft is painful, I don't do that anymore. It's neither entertaining or informative.

YouTube and gun tech or advice is useful to me.

I'm not fond of the look at me, like me culture social media in general engenders.

 

[ParHunter]

Well DNA is an abbreviation. I can see why younger people might not realise your supposed to say the whole word, but it's not always the case is it.

Well DNA has a compression ration of 1:7 (DNA vs deoxyribonucleic acid) so purely out of laziness I would prefer DNA (and I wouldn’t be able to pronounce it correctly anyway).
With MK vs Mark we only have a compression ration of 1:2 so not really worth it. And when you actually use phonetic language the MK comes out longer than the word it abbreviates.

 

[Sewdhull]

Clearly Mk. was abbreviated not for speaking but for writing, or stamping perhaps.

DNA is abbreviated for both I'd hazard and so no one has to pronounce it.

People say e t c. L o l. and allsorts nowadays...

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

People say e t c. L o l. and allsorts nowadays

I fricking hate liquorice.

It's the devil's own clag-nuts

 

[TheFull9]

I've barely ever heard anyone in a video pronounce Salomon correctly.

The one that really gets me (and this has been going on for at least 10 years) is the blatant global lie that is the use of the word polymer to somehow mean something different to plastic.  'Oh this is polymer, not just plastic'... get fucked.