The first time I used vi was in a summer camp while I was in high school. I had accidentally entered "view foo.txt" into a command prompt on a Linux box, and "view" was symlinked to "vi."

We couldn't figure out how to fix this, so we asked the instructor, who replied to us in a heavy German accent: "aha, you see, vi ees an edeetor, and weez everyzing eet does eet say beeeep."

Actually, he was speaking Dutch with a German accent, not English, but you get the idea.