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[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Freeware, shareware, warez.

 

[John Kowalski]

How do you pronounce meme?

Like gene.

 

[marrec]

Like gene.

Mean?

 

[Skikkiks]

won't you come into my room

I wanna show you all my warez

 

[water_wendi]

Call of Warez: Vocabularyslinger

lol.. when i was working in a computer shop this mispronunciation happened all the time.

Freeware, shareware, warez.

Free-waw-ra and Share-waw-ra is how im going to pronounce them now.

 

[Wurst]

Freeware, shareware, warez.

This thread blows my mind.

Then again, I'm German and I was 10 when warez were a thing.

 

[BocoDragon]

I found myself confused by this in the late 90s, but I'm pretty sure I got it sorted out by the turn of the millennium.

 

[rexor0717]

How do you pronounce meme?

maymay

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

I had a buddy who mispronounced them in similar fashion and I would never let him live it down. It was so obviously a call-out to "wares" how anyone could misinterpret it is beyond me...No offence.

Yea lol. Juarez style pronunciation is ridonkulous.

 

[BocoDragon]

Vote for our site in these eight top 10 warez site rankings and you can download your file

 

[Erin S Kittens]

Anyone remember The Warez Song? I discovered it back when I was kicking around Hotline servers in the late 90s. There were two other versions besides the one I linked.

Spoiler

He pronounces it Juarez and I was always like whyyyyyyyy.

 

[BocoDragon]

Me-Me... like Mimi's Cafe. Or something Beaker would say. Right?

me-mez

maymay

please be trolling

 

[FTF]

Juarez Waldo

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

Vote for our site in these eight top 10 warez site rankings and you can download your file

Lmao wowowwwwwww that takes me back! Daemon Tools all the things!

 

[mnannola]

I don't think I've even seen that word in print for about 8-10 years.

I completely forgot this word existed until this thread.

 

[nasax]

TIL, I've been pronouncing it wrong. Heh...

 

[Lijik]

greetz from the scene op

 

[PK Gaming]

Is it not WAH-REZ

Really?

Jesus christ it should totally be pronounce that way

 

[MultiCore]

Oh god, I've been correcting people about this for decades.

It's aggravating to hear them continue to say it wrong.

I mean, if you knew what it was you were getting into, you'd immediately understand the combination of 'leet speak' and underground crime referenced in the choice of word and the spelling.

It's "look at the context 101".



Don't get me started on the pronunciation of Diablo either.


TL;DR: People don't speak English, or any other language, well at all.

 

[Drazgul]

All the cool kids pronounce it varets.

 

[Onemic]

Damn, always pronounced it as juarez

 

[AuthenticM]

Is TC still using Kazaa ?

 

[Zomba13]

I refuse to believe anyone didn't pronounce it as in softwares.

 

[GDGF]

I said wares but everybody I know called it whar ez.

Whar ez always sounded cooler I think

 

[Zyrox]

Like...what? How can you look at this word and think "Juarez"? Especially given its meaning and the context it's used in. This does not compute. I feel like my brain is melting.

Spoiler

Okay, part of the brain melting comes from it being hot as fuck here, but still

 

[injurai]

Never seen the word but my internal pronunciation was "wares"

 

[Einhander]

I actually thought it was pronounced where-ez

Yep. Team Where-Ez reporting in.

 

[IdreamofHIME]

Juarez? Holy shit, cannot believe how the gears in some peoples head work.

 

[RPS37]

When I was a kid I totally thought the same.

 

[sprsk]

lol @ lamerz in this thread.

Seriously its always been juarez.

yall dont know nothing bout efnet haxors

 

[Robot Pants]

Who even uses that word anymore?
It's ancient Internet talk

 

[subrock]

I heard a friend say Juarez the other day and it took every fibre of my being not to correct him. Also when people pronounce doge as doshe. It's dowge.

 

[IceBringer]

How do you pronounce meme?

I legit used to think it was meh-me. Don't even know how I thought that was right but I did

 

[Moozo]

Hahahah Juarez?? Amazing

 

[Copenap]

If I was tasked to find the stupidest way to pronounce warez I could still not come up with Juarez.

 

[JaseMath]

I always said "ware-ez".

Damn.

 

[Meier]

I guess I can see how someone would have said it wrong, but "Juarez" is not what I would have expected. I heard people say it like "Warz" (Wars with a z) in the past. I've always said it correctly apparently.

I have never heard of this word.

Me neither. OP is obviously drunk.

Dude.. Mimic, you're roughly my age. I don't know how old the other guy is but how can someone on a game forum who is nearly 30 or in their 30s not know the term warez?!

Oh, I guess this was sarcasm.

 

[Dan]

I refuse to believe any English speakers thought warez was somehow pronounced Juarez. That's the most counter-intuitive thing ever.

 

[vatstep]

I remember way back in the day, a friend of mine said "wah-rez" — I just laughed in his face. I couldn't believe an otherwise smart individual could think that's how the word was pronounced.

 

[Lothar]

I remember way back in the day, a friend of mine said "wah-rez" — I just laughed in his face. I couldn't believe an otherwise smart individual could think that's how the word was pronounced.

That is how it's pronounced, period. It has a 'Z' at the end. Anyone who says 'Where's' is wrong.

 

[Blargonaut]

:/

 

[Rich!]

Why the fuck would you pronounce it in any other way than as "wares" with a hint of a z at the end?

 

[MultiCore]

That is how it's pronounced, period. It has a 'Z' at the end. Anyone who says 'Where's' is wrong.

It's a pun on "wares". As in, "Would you like to see my illicit wares?"

You've never been more wrong.

 

[Makai]

You guys said Juarez? Amazing.

Softjuarez.

 

[hipbabboom]

OP is not only full of shit but is also an evil person.

boothisman.gif

 

[Fennec]

And how are we supposed to pronounce Kazaa?

 

[hey_it's_that_dog]

That is how it's pronounced, period. It has a 'Z' at the end. Anyone who says 'Where's' is wrong.

Please explain to us the linguistic rule that supports your assertion.

(Don't bother because you're indisputably wrong.)

 

[elrechazado]

That is how it's pronounced, period. It has a 'Z' at the end. Anyone who says 'Where's' is wrong.

Lol @ u.
Wares. As in both software or wares that are kept in a warehouse. Change the s to a z because it's 1337 90s extr3m3 h4xorz.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

I haven't seen that word since the late 90s early 2000s. But yeah, warez, since it's just wares but internet people like "z"s like Mortal Kombat people like "k"s.

 

[GravityMan]

Haven't heard or seen that word in at least 10 years or so.