Do you say KSP or spell it?

[One-Way Films]

[SIZE=5][FONT=century gothic]I was curious about how people say "KSP". Do you say it or spell it? If you don't get what I mean, let me elaborate;[/FONT][/SIZE]

[B]When you say KSP, you're saying it as a word. I'm sure it sounds something like "Kissp".
When you spell KSP, you say the letters KSP.[/B]

Vote in the poll and discuss advantages/disadvantages below if you guys want xD :D

[theend3r]

[quote name='One-Way Films']...it sounds something like "Kissp". ...[/QUOTE]

That's ridiculous. :D

[MalfunctionM1Ke]

[quote name='theend3r']That's ridiculous. :D[/QUOTE]

KerSpaPro :P

[r4pt0r]

These are the people that say gif instead of gif....

[Guest]

How do you get the idea to pronounce an abbreviation like a word?? I say K S P obviously.

[Moh1336]

Personally I do neither. I just say Kerbal Space Program :P even when I read it, it auto-translates to the full words in my brain. Ya know cos I'm weird like that.

Technically though KSP is an initialism, therefore English Language dictates you say it the letters. ;)

[cantab]

No vowels in it, so "kay ess pea" is the obvious way.

[Harry Rhodan]

[quote name='cantab']No vowels in it, so "kay ess pea" is the obvious way.[/QUOTE]

"Käsespieß".

[razark]

Spelled: KSP
Spoken: "Kerbal"


[quote name='Kerdinand']How do you get the idea to pronounce an abbreviation like a word?? I say K S P obviously.[/QUOTE]
[quote name='Moh1336']Technically though KSP is an initialism, therefore English Language dictates you say it the letters.[/QUOTE]
Interesting.

Please tell me how y'all say "NASA", "ESA", and "JAXA".

[Agost]

Pronouncing "KSP" in Italian results in the same number of syllables of "Kerbal Space Program"

So I usually say "Kerbal"

[r4pt0r]

[quote name='Agost']Pronouncing "KSP" in Italian results in the same number of syllables of "Kerbal Space Program"

So I usually say "Kerbal"[/QUOTE]

I am about 50/50 calling it just plain "Kerbal" or spelling out "Kay Ess Pee"

[Whirligig Girl]

[quote name='r4pt0r']These are the people that say gif instead of gif....[/QUOTE]

We were gonna name our school robotics team "It's Pronounced .gif" and whoever was asked or was telling the name would pronounce gif however they wanted.

I don't like when people call it Kerbal, it just doesn't [I]quite[/I] sound right. Not gonna hate you for it or anything, it's just a personal preference. KSP is better, pronounced Kay Es Pe. A lot of times I spell out the full name with a "the" in front: "I was launching a rocket to the purple planet Eve in the Kerbal Space Program." Edited November 18, 2015 by GregroxMun

[steuben]

[QUOTE]Do you say KSP or spell it?[/QUOTE]
Yes.

Though my kerbals tend to pronounce KSC as KAI-see.

[Gargamel]

KSP is an abbreviation. An abbreviation is any shortened form of a word or collection of words. NASA, SCUBA, RPM, KSP, OCT are all abbreviations.

But there are sub types of abbreviations. NASA, SCUBA, RPM, KSP, OCT are all abbreviations.

An initialism is using only the first letters of each word to form a group of letters. KSP falls in this category, along with NASA, SCUBA, but an abbreviation like OCT (for October), does not

An acronym is an abbreviation (initialism or otherwise) that is a pronounceable word. NASA, SCUBA, OCT are all acronyms (but to be honest, I've never heard anybody say Oct in reference to the month, only the base), but Oct is not an initialism. I know there's multi word acronyms that aren't initialisms, but I can't think of any at the moment (I was hoping the [URL="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/behindscenes/colberttreadmill.html"]COLBERT treadmill [/URL]was one, but it's not).

So by definition, KSP is an Initialism, but not an acronym, therefore it can't be pronounced.

[monophonic]

"Space game" or "rocket game." I mainly talk about it to my unnerdy wife so those convey the message better than anything with Kerbal in it.

[Dafni]

Sometimes I just call it The Game :D

[AndyMt]

While we are talking about a space game, read this ;):
[url]https://plus.google.com/+TheSpaceXFanClub/posts/bKzSoTimHEH[/url]

So I just call it "Kerbal Space Program" :).

[Guest]

[quote name='razark']Spelled: KSP
Spoken: "Kerbal"




Interesting.

Please tell me how y'all say "NASA", "ESA", and "JAXA".[/QUOTE]

OK, I give you that point. Then I´ll say that I won´t speak out KSP because it doesn´t contain any vowels.

And my parents say "Kerbal" for the game and "to kerbal" for me playing computer. :)

[KerbMav]

[quote name='Kerdinand']How do you get the idea to pronounce an abbreviation like a word?? I say K S P obviously.[/QUOTE]

Radar, Laser ... :)

[quote name='Kerdinand']And my parents say "Kerbal" for the game and "to kerbal" for me playing computer. :)[/QUOTE]

Then maybe ... I am your father! :cool:

[quote name='r4pt0r']I am about 50/50 calling it just plain "Kerbal" or spelling out "Kay Ess Pee"[/QUOTE]

*giggle* He said pee! :wink:

[Thegamer211]

I say kerbal space program, when talking in real life.

[Korizan]

Kay - Es - Pee :P

[Geher]

[quote name='Dafni']Sometimes I just call it The Game :D[/QUOTE]

Oh, now I get it. So that's what Queen is singing about.:rolleyes:

[NecroBones]

[quote name='GregroxMun']We were gonna name our school robotics team "It's Pronounced .gif" and whoever was asked or was telling the name would pronounce gif however they wanted.
[/QUOTE]

That's awesome! :)

Yeah, that's one case where I willfully pronounce something "wrong". I've known since the '90s that they originally intended it to be pronounced with a soft-G, sounding like "Jiff". However, that has always sounded awful to me, and the "G" in "GIF" stands for "Graphics", so I use a hard-G pronunciation intentionally.

[Spartwo]

[quote name='razark']
Please tell me how y'all say "NASA", "ESA", and "JAXA".[/QUOTE]

Eee Ess Ay

[Trann]

It's formally KSP to myself, Kerbal Space Program to others unaware of it, and the verb "to Kerbal" when I inform family of my plans for the night.

This thread has taught me that (so far) two people are terribly wrong.