“Realm” is pronounced “REE-al’m,” as in “to Al him again.”
“Conundrum” is pronounced “CONun drum,” as in “a con that’s spelled the same way backwards as it is forwards.”
“Segue” is absolutely pronounced “seg-YOO.”
“Nike” rhymes with “like.”
“Valididate” is a word.
“Faggo” is a term of endearment in the workplace as opposed to, say, the name of a self-loathing […]

In high school, I took a computer/typing course my freshman year. Wherever my tuition money went, it was not to IT; while the school’s main computer lab was all Appley Mac’ed out, the computer/typing class was strictly Commodore 64s, which was almost as ridiculous then as it would be now.
What I was just remembering, though, […]