Important - how do you pronounce 'Live mode'

"EA_Cade;c-18212181" wrote:

"simgirl1010;c-18211442" wrote:
I agree with SimGuruNinja.

https://twitter.com/SimGuruNinja/status/1351914211513810947?s=20&t=1JsuBGtE_Rexb9L4SJ026w

Oh man, this is like when the inventor of the GIF said it was pronounced like JIF.

Love Dave, but until I see his Linguistics degree I'm pronouncing it "(a)Live Mode".

This is the hill I die on ?

That’s the hill I live on. “Live” as in GIF / JIF.

"Chicklet453681;c-18211515" wrote:
I say "Live" - (rhymes with Hive" mode, as in you're Live and On the Air. Like you are the director of a movie production. I play characters and tell their story, I don't play simself, so I don't "live" in the game.

I go by proper English grammar/usage. In this context, live rhyming with alive & hive. They are two different words, thus the two different pronunciations.

I pronounce it (a)"live" mode, but I think all of the gurus say "live"(love,etc) mode, so I reckon I pronounce it wrong and just stick to it from habit.

Live as in alive. I don't 'live' as any sim, I don't 'live' in or with the sims, so saying 'live' (as in give) mode makes zero sense to me personally. :)

I never considered it the other way... but that's made me think.
It being called "live" (as in laugh love) makes a LOT of sense to me now - but that doesn't mean I'm going to be able to change what it is in my head - i've been playing since 2006! I can't kick the habit now.

I say live as in 'alive', because it's similar to life, and I'm controlling my sims life :)

I've always thought of it as live as in live tv. That's how I see my sim worlds and stories, little tv shows.

Live as in five, not live as in give. Been that way since Sims 1, not gonna change it now lmao. Live (give) makes zero sense, grammatically speaking and otherwise - when we play, we are playing in live (five) mode, as the sims are doing their thing - they live (give) in a house, not on my screen! Pretty sure it was pronounced live (five) back then too, not this new live (give) thing. But that's a long time for me to remember back to lol.

Wow. I didn't know this was a thing. I have always pronounced it similar to "hive". Kind of like live tv. I press live and the sims become alive.

I pronounce it as in “alive”, although I can admit that the other pronunciation makes more sense with build mode, lol.