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

Barista in the morning, AI engineer by day, and parent (with @shiwen) by night ||
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Such an underrated point I literally can hear it 

Aeee-peeeeee-peeeee

creating and destroying; flying cars, jet engines, roc.camera, july.rocks /faust

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

???