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		riffraff 22 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents "seek you"? That's how ICQ was pronounced. I feel very old now.

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codehead 22 hours ago [–]

Wow, today I learned. I never knew icq was meant to be pronounced like that. I literally pronounced each letter with commitment to keep them separated. Hah!

riffraff 15 hours ago | [–]

I'm Italian, and we all used to spell the letters as if it was italian: EE-CHEE-COO.

Took me a long time to get the wordplay.

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