It's always a pleasure to make an epic thread a little more epic ;)

But, hey, we're both from Poland - am I wrong with the "eastern-european" version of spelling this site's name? It's just "gog" :)

How's about that? ;)

I pronounce it "gee oh gee"

Why does that remind me of a 50's sitcom?!?! hahahaha

I have referred to GOG as Grog once, but only on talk like a pirate day. :)

I have control over my word choice and word pronunciation.

The exposure you have as a child to language alters the ease with which you can make different phonemes. For example, see the stereotypical "L" and "R" differentiation problem among the Japanese or people growing up in certain parts of South America being unable to easily, if at all, pronounce the "th" sound, so three sounds like tree. If you aren't exposed to the different sounds during childhood, your brain will never learn to make those sounds as successfully as a person who was exposed to those sounds.

like others, I would go with gee-oh-gee in general, and just used Good Old Games when explaining it to those people who are not yet aware of this awesome.

Gee oh gee mostly!

We swedes, more often than not, substitute it with "v" when spelling out URLs. In other cases it's "double-v".

Word choice, sure. Word pronounciation, to a limited extent. You can deliberately take on dialects, accents or other speech patterns that aren't natural to you, but unless you're conciously aware of them all the time, you will gradually return to you ""natural" way of speaking - this includes pronouncing words in the way that requires the least amount of mouthwork.

Yeah, first semester Phonetics and Phonology. Pretty basic. However the cutoff point, after which you're irreparably "damaged" by your native language is at about the age of 14. I was exposed to English long before then. This does not make me a native speaker, but it does eliminate a great deal of the problems that say a 43-year-old would have learning English for the first time.
Also, while there are certainly sounds in English phonology that could cause problems for a native Danish speaker, the sounds related to "gog" are mostly, if not completely the same.

The easiest way of speaking is what you are used to. "The least amount of mouthwork" is at best a subjective measurement, and again depends on what you are used to. Most people would agree that juggling 5 balls is much more difficult that tying shoelaces, but if you grew up in a circus and wore velcro shoes all your life, you might have a different opinion. This I can attest to. Scandinavians in general have a major advantage over most other non-native English speakers. For one thing, we start learning English early. In my day it was in the 5th grade, today it's in the 3rd grade. But the one major advantage we have compared to most others is the simple fact that we don't dub foreign movies and TV shows, but use subtitles instead. Since most of those (that are shown here) are either British or American, we grow up listening to English all around us.

I'm starting to wonder how you pronounce the letter "g". Having tried for a few minutes, I find it almost impossible to pronounce it with my tongue at the back of my mouth, so why you'd want to move it there is beyond me. All it takes to pronounce a "g" is to lightly touch the roof of your mouth with your tongue.

I think part of the problem here, is that people who tend to say "gog" will, when they try the other pronounciation, say "geee - ooh geee", whereas someone who says it naturally will pronounce it more like "geogee". Being very careful in your pronounciation obviously obscures how much work it is to say a specific word.

I'm curious, aside from A.D. what other abbreviations have you noticed in roman texts? Obviously as an English-student that's not where my expertise lies, so I'll just have to take your word for it. I'm just not familiar with any other common roman abbreviations, nor am I familiar with any at all in English pre-1700s, or in the limited amount of older Danish texts I've come across.

Specifically on the point of the abbreviation of Anno Domini, it's worth noting that it is most often said either letter by letter, or simply Anno Domini. Even in translations (and I'm going to use English and Danish again here, since that's what I'm familiar with), the full phrase is used, as in "the year of our Lord" or "det Herrens år".

I would still claim that the practice of pronouncing abbreviations as words is related to use of the internet, as abbreviations are more commonplace there than anywhere else in society. It's also a sphere in which abbreviations are more often made for every day words and phrases, as opposed to "real" life, in which we tend to only abbreviate the complicated or very specific or situational phrases.
"Lol" would be the perfect example. Many people feel that they need it while using the internet, in order to express mood, or set the tone of a conversation. In "real" life we don't need it because actual laughter is more effective.

There's a big difference between making a statement, and making a parody of another person's statement.
In the latter case you're targeting a specific person, rather than speaking to a community or audience, in a deliberate attempt to mock, or at least annoy that one person.

For me it's the "dog with g" version :)
After all the "g" comes from "good" and "games" ant I pronounce it the same way.

You never answered my question. You don't pronounce NATO "en-a-tee-oh", do you? How about NASA? Pronouncing acronyms as words rather than individual letters has been quite common long before anything like the internet existed.

Which again shows that swedes are smart people! ;)

I wouldn't say that NATO or NASA predate the Internet by a "long" time, but I guess that depends on your perspective. Still, the oldest of those two acronyms is 61 years old.

I'm not arguing that the use of abbreviations and acronyms, or the use of either of those as words in normal speech is a direct result of the emergence of the internet. There's plenty of evidence to the contrary.
My argument is that widespread use of abbreviations and acronyms is a relatively recent phenomenon (within the past 100 years - as opposed to dating back to ancient Rome), and that such use of language has been spreading and growing in that period. The emergence of the internet marks a sharp increase in the use of abbreviations and acronyms - both in terms of how many people use them, and in the number of abbreviations and acronyms used overall. The internet is also to a great extent responsible for abbreviations, acronyms, contractions or even corruptions of every day words and phrases. Examples would be "be right there" - brt, "as far as I know" - afaik, or simply laughter - lol. Such use of abbreviations IS new and IS unique to the internet. And I would argue that encountering this phenomenon on a regular day-to-day basis increases an individual's likelyhood of chosing to treat newly encountered abbreviations in much the same way that they treat "lol" - that is, to pronounce it as though it was an actual word.