People were seriously downvoting this? People need to be more aware that what used to be common knowledge is not so common in either younger generations or other parts of the world. We should not discourage people from asking genuine questions.

Whoever is poisoning the AI search results, please don’t stop. These are hilarious.

Be the change you want to see in the community. I’m sure there is at least one instance that will allow it.

I pronounce it both ways. Sometimes I will even use one pronunciation over the other because it angers the person I am speaking with.

It actually makes perfect sense here. The physical hardware by itself is nothing more than various pieces of metal. The “language of the stones” is referring to the programming languages that tell the hardware what to do.