You got no luck with me, I am not a native English speaker. In English I would call this “two ex” but now that I think of it in German we would say “two times”, or at least thats what I and my friends called it.
a 2x drive
I lived in a non-anglophone country when those were a thing, how do you pronounce that? “Twice” drive? “Two ex” drive? “Double speed” drive?
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
tyler@programming.dev 5 months ago
Both of those are fine. As a native English speaker I literally say both of those depending on my mood.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 5 months ago
“Double speed” and “two ex” both work, however it’s much, much more common to say “two ex” because of the fact that a lot of modern disc drives can read up to 52x for CDs.
cynar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m a native English speaker, and all of the but the first get/were used. “Two times” would also be commonly used (at least where I grew up).
English is inconsistent as hell, even to native speakers. We are just better at hiding our confusion about it. (Bane’s speech on darkness, from one of the Batcam films, comes to mind)
Boinkage@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m an American, I would say two ex drive.