I still chuckle inside when I listen to Chinese people reference apps as A-P-P in regular conversation

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It’s like people collectively decided:

- we aren’t coming up with a new word for this
- no gd way we’re going to try and sound out that word
- let’s spell it out instead

???

Such an underrated point I literally can hear it 

Aeee-peeeeee-peeeee

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Crazy thing is my wife interchangeably does it too when she speaks to friends in Chinese. I really don’t know but it seems to be consensus