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Usually when I'm typing it I'll just use SNES, out loud I say Super Nintendo or say the individual letters. Saying sness is unforgivable.

I've never actually met one of the creatins who say "snesss" but I have much faith they exist.

I say S-N-E-S but my rom folder is labled Super Nintendo, go figure.

I remember the exact time in 4th grade when I first heard someone say "Sness". Even then, as a small child, that shit got under my skin. From then on, I never associated with that kid, because he seemed completely strange and wrong.

Fuck that kid, I hope he fucking died.

me and my friends say S-NES

First World Problems

>>971295
I say Super NES, and I hate "snesss" too OP. As far as I'm concerned, SNES, Super NES, Super Nintendo, any of those are fine. "snesss" is garbage though, it's an acronym, not a word.

I say Snesss. Deal with it.

Super NES

>>971396
>Snesss
Gesundheit.

Sufami

soup or nine ten doe

>>971391
>>971295
I have never heard a person say "snes."
Are there actually people who do this?

Sneeze.

i never have said it like a word... "Nes, or Snes".

I usually say "The N E S, or the S N E S" when discussing it in conversation

>>971374
so.. "essness"? that's even weirder than "sness". I usually go with s-n-e-s

>>971451
most hispanic people say "essness"
Spaniards have no regard for english or acronyms what-so-ever.

my friend was calling it just "super" the other day

>>971391
>it's an acronym, not a word.
So is WSO (wizzo) and SCSI (skuzzy). Military and Computer Science jargon both love to do that with acronyms.

I use Super Nintendo, S-N-E-S spelled out, and SNES pronounced depending on who I'm talking to. I have a preference for Super Nintendo.

I use the term snes, but I'm also completely fine with s-nes and super nintendo.
It could be worse, I could have an arbitrary bug up my ass about how people say perfectly fine things.

I say sness because it's just easier to say. I still say N-E-S though, because most other people call it that and "Nintendo" is usually for any Nintendo console nowadays.

>>971385

That shit looks like a Wal-Mart birthday cake. 0/10 would not play games other than Zelda on.

>>971391
Pretty much this.
>SNES
>Super Nintendo
>Super NES
>sometimes I even just call it The Super but that's usually if I've previously referred to the NES
>for example, The NES had great games, but The Super did too.

Italianon here.
We usually call the NES a "Nintendo" while the SNES it's a "Super Nintendo".

>>971295

SNES is only for shorthand in writing. I don't think you can grammatically pronounce acronyms that way if they don't refer to organizations.

>>971489

>wal-mart birthday cake

S'wrong with you? That shit is beautiful.

>>971295
Pronouncing it as "sness" is just awful. S-N-E-S or Super Nintendo are both acceptable though.

you can thank youtuber "ashens" for that meme.

in one of his episodes he made an off handed remark about calling the super nintendo, a snessss, it was only meant as a joke but it just spread like a virus

>>971547
>you can thank a youtuber for a term that's been around fifteen years before youtube even existed.
uh... okay then. Sounds pretty fucking stupid to me, but fine. I guess you've got some intel everyone else in the world doesn't know.

I say it as ES-EN-EE-ES and EN-EE-ES everytime, no matter what. "Super Nintendo" fags and "sness" (wat how the fuck people actually do that?) fags are a shit.

>>971547
>>971560
Sorry, but that pronunciation was regularly used before YouTube even existed. Kids were saying "snesss" when I started high school back in 2001

>>971568
Kids were saying 'snes' back in 1991 when it was released.

>>971547
Thats what it was known as in the UK.

Ness
Sness

First time i heard people say S N E S and N E S i thought they were taking the piss.

well seemed legit. i have never in my life heard anybody refer to a super nintendo sness. before maybe 2005. every single tv commercial called it a super nintendo.

even the movie "the wizard". which taught us the proper pronunciation of Ninja Gayden never once uttered the word Ness.

>>971574
What the fuck man. What if I am talking about Earthbound? You guys have Earthbound down there, right?

1986 fag.
Sness, or Super Nintendo, but I prefer Snes for brevity.
Pronouncing individual parts of acronyms with more than 3 characters, is for dorks.

>>971574
This nigga knows what's up

>>971581
im >>971574 also 1986.

1. go to youtube
2. search "Nintendo commercial"

not one single time will you hear sness spoken anywhere. so yeah, super nintendo is the official pronounciation.

>>971295
>YFW when it wasn't pronounced Howard and EN-EEE-ES-ter

>>971295
Souper Nin10dough, OP

Super Nintendo Entertainment System, obviously.

>>971634
And in Japan they called it the 'Nintendo Super Famicom', but they mostly say 'Sufami' for short.
Also i say ES-NES or Super Nintendo, and when you look at the logo and ignore the small print (who reads it anyway?) it's says SUPER NINTENDO.

>>971295

Always called it "the snes". But why should I put emphasis on the second "s"? I never spoke that s sharp

Super Nintendo Sega Genesis

I say whatever the fuck I want. Deal with it faggots.

If you want to be autists over the way someone pronounces an abbreviation of a video game console from the 90s then go for it. I forsee you having a lot bigger problems in your life if you want to be this serious about something so trivial.

Have fun going postal one day and ending up on the evening news because someone said "sness". I'm sure it will be worth it to all you neckbeards.

SNES on the web, Super Nintendo IRL

typing, snes.

I'll either say super Nintendo or "super ness" in real life.

>>971920
When I was dead broke man I couldn't picture this

SuFami

It's Super In Eee Ess

Are you guys really doing this? Jesus Christ.

Super Nintendo.

I swear I don't think I've ever heard a person call it "sness" locally. I think I've heard SNES spelled out, but not sness.

Super Nintendo and sometimes Super N.E.S, but mostly the former.

>>971459
>most hispanic people say "essness"

ive never heard of this in my life

>>971459
>most hispanic people say "essness"

No, they don't. Pretty broad generalization there.
I will say that pretty much all of my non-English speaking relatives and friends referred to every console, even non-Nintendo consoles, as simply "Nintendo". It took my parents years to get out of the habit of calling my Playstation consoles Nintendo.

I always just say "Super Famicom" because I like being edgy as fuck.

>>971563
> "Super Nintendo" fags and "sness" fags are a shit.
>"Super Nintendo" fags

Using just one more syllable to pronounce the word instead of the acronym referring to it must be pretty faggy huh?

S-N-E-S, imo, is more cumbersome to say than Super Nintendo.

In Mexico, whenever I would read SNES in a magazine or whatever, I would internally pronounce it "sness", but in reality, when talking about it, we would call it "Super Nintendo".

Where I come from everyone called it Super Nintendo or SNES as one word, anyone who called it S-N-E-S was laughed at. It made you sound like a absolute geek (remembering that this was back when being a geek or 'geek-chic' wasn't cool)

>>971295
I either say 'Super Nintendo' or 'Super NES' (pronouncing NES as 'ness').

If I'm typing I will usually go for 'Super Nintendo'.

I've been saying "snehss" since the 90s. Deal with it.

>>972809
It's funny I bought a guys modded psx and he gave me his cd wallet full of games. Well for some reason he labeled all of his games as Sega. Like he had CD-Rs and labeled them as Sega- Metal Gear Solid, Sega- Gran Tourismo, Sega- Bushido blade.

It's like his family used sega as a generic, the same way people use Gameboy as a generic for handhelds.

>>971592
like kids in primary/ elementary school give a fuck about the official pronunciation.

>>972908
>pronouncing NES as 'ness'
so that really was a thing in britland?
every video I have seen were people do this has bugged the hell out of me... here in the US we just say it as an acronym

>>972935
>the same way people use Gameboy as a generic for handhelds.
who the hell did that?

>>972950
I'm from California. I don't think I've ever heard anyone actually pronounce the acronym.

Most of the people I know who actually talk about video games are obsessed with Earthbound, though, so that might explain why 'ness' gets incorporated into the repertoire so much.

>>972938
see my posts from last night
>>971323
>>971331

>>972956
Older, parent types. When the NDS came out it was easier to tell my grandparents it was a gameboy, than a Nintendo DS.

>>972979
Did you have friends at school? It doesn't sound like it if you judged people over the most trivial of things.

>>972979
>only had one SNES controller as a kid

You sound like you were a piece of shit as a kid. Don't suppose much has changed has it?

>>971943
>thinking people are legitimately that bothered by it

Lol

>>972809
>It took my parents years to get out of the habit of calling my Playstation consoles Nintendo.
My dad is the still the opposite.

Sorry, but I can't imagine anyone pronouncing S.N.E.S. "Sness" not being a total "90's kid" poser or some kind of dunce. Everyone I knew as a kid called it a "Super Nintendo" but "S.N.E.S." or "Super N.E.S." were also acceptable. Calling it the "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" was totally unheard of in casual conversation but if I heard someone call it that I'd at least know that they're fucking legit.

I apologize for the rant but, ever since I moved to California, hearing people say ness, sness, or, worse, snezz always reminds me of my little brother's slacker friends who come to my house with their Zelda tee shirts, Zelda wallpapers on their laptops and phones, Navi ringtones, who play Zelda tunes on my keyboard but have never actually played a Zelda game other than Ocarina of Time and Super Smash Bros. (which the fucking Philistines pronounce "Smash Bros").

ES EN EE ES

SNES: Nintendo
NES: Old Nintendo

As a kid, I called it "Super"

Now I call it either Super Nintendo, or S-N-E-S.

>>971295
Back and forth between Super Nintendo and Super N.E.S.

>>973707

I don't know why The West didn't just elide all this confusion by keeping the Famicom title for both systems.

It's a combination of two English words, so I don't know what the problem is.

Super ENN EE ESS, faggots

I always say snez instead of sness.

>>971295
As a kid I called it Super NES.

Now I call it Snes.

My dumb American friend called it the Ess Enn Eee Ess

>>971295
I didn't even know it was called a SNES until I came on the internet.

I'm the old faggot parent that calls your xbox 360 a nintendo.

everything is a nintendo to me

>>974364

>troll or too young to be here?

>>974369
is 21 too young?

>>974370

7 years younger than me. But nah, not really.

You should have grown up on SNES and N64. What gives?

SuNinty

SNES written
Super Nintendo spoken

Never met anyone that did it otherwise.

>>973042
>implying there aren't people acrually bothered by it
Please see
>>971331
>>971323

If you say or write anything less than Super Nintendo Entertainment System you are a lesser life form that I will spit on if I ever encounter you in public.

>>971391
>>971471
Better examples would be AIDS and NATO. I'm not a native English speaker, but I don't think I have ever heard anyone say "ei-ai-dii-es" or "en-ei-tii-ou" or whatever.

>>972809
Everytime I played some even slightly retroish game on PC and my mom happened to pass by she would ask if it was Sega because we had a Mega Drive long time ago.

>>971295
Ess En EE Es

I pronounce it as "sneeze."

Throat Warbler Mangrove.

People used to always say "my Nintendo", so I'd say Super Nintendo is appropriate. Anything else feels wrong and irritating, like when retards say pronounce "DOS" as "D-O-S".

>Super NES
There you have it.

>>975763

You're a very silly anon and I'm not going to interview you

I too have wasted far too much of my life watching the the Flying Circus.

SNES written

Super Nintendo spoken

well this is a lively discussion, now how about we discus the fags that call a Game Boy Advance, a Gee-Bee-Aye

>>976807
I call every fucking handheld a gameboy.

My younger brother's all "you mean the DS?" and i'm "whatever."

>>971459
What? My good señor, in latinamerica we all call it either Super Nintendo or Super.

>>971471
>>971391

Not to be rude, but just to clarify: acronyms and initialisms are 2 different things. An acronym you pronounce as a word (ex. FUBAR, AIDS, SOPA) and with initialisms you pronounce the letters (FBI, PDA, CIA.) Just thought my fellow /vr/ troopers could use some help

its spoken "S" "N" "E" "S"

like that, always and forever, amen

The correct name of the system is Super Famicom, often abbreviated to SuFami. Please use the correct name. Thanks.

>>977037
This. Who the fuck would say "snesss"?

>>975770
I say "doss" all the time, but it never occurred to me to say "ness" or "sness." I suppose they just sound better spelled out.

>>976807
...Australians?

>>977058
in AMERICA, we say Super Nintendo

>>977093
So? It's Japanese hardware. The actual name of the system is Super Famicom. What they decided to market it as to get foreigners to buy it doesn't really matter.

Super Nintendo. Pronouncing each separate letter of SNES is stupid, and pronouncing SNES as one word is even more retarded.

I usually say "Sness" when talking to people who would know what I'm talking about. It's just a shorter, easier way. Otherwise I'll just say "Super Nintendo."

Nintendo Entertainment System is always "N-E-S" though. I can't say "Ness" because that could be confused for the character Ness.

>>977097

Fami, Sufami, NES, and SNES are worlds apart.

Can I just state for the record that "Ninty" is the gayest thing I've ever heard, and people who say it are fucking disgusting freaks with no regard for the well being of society in general, and they should be killed, and their families will also be killed.

>>977029
>Acronym: a word (as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation (as FBI) formed from initial letters : initialism
>Initialism: an abbreviation formed from initial letters
>Abbreviation: a shortened form of a written word or phrase used in place of the whole

S-n-e-s or typically Super depending on context

>>974318
this, it's quicker, easier and in my oppinion sounds better than speeling it out, i often call it a super nintendo or just a nintendo if there's no chance it will cause confusion