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How do you prounounce "n00b" anyway (is it newb or no-ub?)
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Angel A.
2013-06-09 21:21:56 UTC
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Noob or N00b or variations are for novices in computer stuff.
But how do you pronounce the word?
a. newb?
b. no ub?
musika
2013-06-09 21:33:30 UTC
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Post by Angel A.
Noob or N00b or variations are for novices in computer stuff.
But how do you pronounce the word?
a. newb?
b. no ub?
It's short for "newbie" so the American pronunciation would be newb (noob).
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R H Draney
2013-06-09 21:49:48 UTC
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Post by Angel A.
Noob or N00b or variations are for novices in computer stuff.
But how do you pronounce the word?
a. newb?
b. no ub?
It's short for "newbie" so the American pronunciation would be newb (noob).
n00b = /nu:b/
newb = /nju:b/

The "leet" spelling is meant to imitate an especially dimwitted speaker....r
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Evan Kirshenbaum
2013-06-10 23:59:07 UTC
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Post by Angel A.
Noob or N00b or variations are for novices in computer stuff.
But how do you pronounce the word?
a. newb?
b. no ub?
It's short for "newbie" so the American pronunciation would be newb (noob).
n00b = /nu:b/
newb = /nju:b/
For some speakers. For me, it's like British writers using "lurve"
and "nood" or, for that matter, older books writing "walk'd" and
"talk'd".

My "new" is /nu/, so my "newbie" is /nubi/.
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The "leet" spelling is meant to imitate an especially dimwitted speaker....r
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micky
2013-06-10 22:04:48 UTC
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Post by Angel A.
Noob or N00b or variations are for novices in computer stuff.
But how do you pronounce the word?
a. newb?
b. no ub?
It's short for "newbie" so the American pronunciation would be newb (noob).
Newbie was long for new, so now they need a short word for it. Very
strange.
annily
2013-06-11 02:12:13 UTC
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Post by Angel A.
Noob or N00b or variations are for novices in computer stuff.
But how do you pronounce the word?
a. newb?
b. no ub?
It's short for "newbie" so the American pronunciation would be newb (noob).
Newbie was long for new, so now they need a short word for it. Very
strange.
Not in my book. "New" is an adjective. "Newbie" is a noun, meaning a new
person.
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Stan Brown
2013-06-10 13:34:48 UTC
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Post by Angel A.
Noob or N00b or variations are for novices in computer stuff.
But how do you pronounce the word?
a. newb?
b. no ub?
If I ever used such a "word", I would pronounce it like the first
syllable of "newbie".
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is ... the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning."
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Christian Weisgerber
2013-06-10 17:27:16 UTC
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Post by Stan Brown
Post by Angel A.
Noob or N00b or variations are for novices in computer stuff.
But how do you pronounce the word?
a. newb?
b. no ub?
If I ever used such a "word", I would pronounce it like the first
syllable of "newbie".
You mean with a silent b? :->
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bob
2013-06-10 14:46:24 UTC
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Post by Angel A.
Noob or N00b or variations are for novices in computer stuff.
But how do you pronounce the word?
a. newb?
b. no ub?
Having wasted some time on online games, there is definitely a meaning
of n00b beyond the more general meaning of "newbie". I would regard
newbie to refer to anyone who is new to a particular environment where
a particular code of behaviour is expected, and who due to
inexperience, may make unintentional mistakes. Because they are
inexperienced, the breaches of etiquette should be overlooked. A
n00b, however, is somebody who behaves in a foolish and often
irritating way, who really should know better. Often they are doing
this to deliberately wind up others around them (a form of trolling).

I would not generally abbreviate the first meaning, and use "newbie"
in full, while the second I would regard as "correctly" spelt using
the 1337 "0" characters rather than letters, and I would pronounce it
as (b.).

Robin
Curlytop
2013-06-10 18:37:51 UTC
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Post by Angel A.
Noob or N00b or variations are for novices in computer stuff.
But how do you pronounce the word?
a. newb?
b. no ub?
"noob" in AmE, "nyoob" in BrE.
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Paul Wolff
2013-06-10 21:52:28 UTC
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Angel A. set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time
Post by Angel A.
Noob or N00b or variations are for novices in computer stuff.
But how do you pronounce the word?
a. newb?
b. no ub?
"noob" in AmE, "nyoob" in BrE.
The Nawab of Pataudi was called "noob" by at least one other cricketer
in his time at Oxford University, but I don't think he had reached as
advanced a qualification as 'novice' in computing, so this has pretty
poor evidential value I'm afraid.
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Paul
Steve Hayes
2013-06-11 04:28:16 UTC
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Post by Angel A.
Noob or N00b or variations are for novices in computer stuff.
But how do you pronounce the word?
a. newb?
b. no ub?
Presumably to rhyme with d00d.
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