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      Typing requires thumbs; something only primates have.

      …another thing that (some) primates have is an island where rich people go to molest children.

      Some of these primates are greedy and/or terrible primates, and they don’t want you to look up any connection between a primate named Trump and a primate named Epstein (spoiler alert, those primates rape underaged primates and brag about it to each other).

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        Mate… This post is about a funny meme about word pronunciation. There is no need to bring us politics here (or any other nation politics for that matter). There are other places you can go to to talk about it.

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          Folks like you are gonna tell me that I’m doing too much, meanwhile others say we aren’t doing enough.

          My secret is; I know what to do and when.

          Edit: checks notes, amemds notes: microblogs on Lemmy are probably apologetic fascists, or I am very drunk.

          Double edit: Lady butterfly!? We were just talking about pulling hair together! I feel betrayed in a small box.

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      In fact I would wager almost any library would work for this. Librarians are by and large the most helpful and I judgmental people I have ever met. Every single interaction I’ve ever had with them has been positive.

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    I speak spanish and one of the first cultural shocks I had was when I as a kid saw an episode of some sitcom (can’t remember) and there where talks of a “spelling bee” a contest to see who could spell correctly, that was so alien to at the time because in spanish there are just a few words that are tricky, because they have some silent H or a P at the beginning but then I started to learn english and it all made sense.

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      We have bees, and we also have really long, ancient words that no one uses or remembers like pulchritudinous, which means physical beauty or Myrmecophilous which is fond of ants.

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      In finnish it’s the same and I’ve even had the same experience! We write almost completely phonetically so something like “spelling bee” is an insane thought. English writing system is basically abstract at this point and you just need to learn to pronounce each individual word lmao

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      Just the fact that we can have a whole contest around the idea, and that there’s still room for words contestants haven’t seen before, illustrates just how insane English is.

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          it’s wild to think that we embed miniature copies of Greek and Latin into English, for doing science and medicine. not just words, I mean a functional grammar fully stocked with roots and morphemes. we just make words like “holographic,” “isotope” and “synesthesia” (Greek), “accelerometer”, “prefabricated” and “refrigerator” (Latin), or hybrids (“television”, “microscope.”)

          English is such a wonderful mutt of a language.

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            Fuck hybrids that mix greek and latin…

            The worst offender: Decathlon, Greek sports in a Greek event (Olympics) and they use DECA! /s

            Greetings from a Norwegian. (Some words of Norse origin, mostly those of pre Norman origin)

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      That’s what happens when you mash several languages together. A lot of English terms have a Latin-derived and Germanic-derived word meaning the same thing.

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        French spelling is a total shitshow too. what’s their excuse? Spanish and Italian turned out normal.

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    My buddy says “chasm” with a soft ch. We’ve tried to correct him. He doesn’t hear us. He also pronounces “tome” like “tomb”.

    We play DnD together if anyone was wondering why these words would come up with any regularity.

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      PTSD flashback to my ESL little self always mispronouncing choir after they told me to join to practice my English.

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        Another funny story! An ex of mine was an exchange student in Germany (from Canada) when she was a high schooler, and she attended a children’s choir concert where they sang “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off”, and in the line “you say tomato, I say tomato”, they pronounced “tomato” the same way each time.

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      I’ve heard “chasm” pronounced as both “chaz-um” and “kaz-um”

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      Does he say “chaos” with a soft “ch” as well?

      He also pronounces “tome” like “tomb”

      My roommate in college did that. Drove me nuts, but the worst was that he rhymed “epitome” with “tome.”

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          I don’t agree with that decision. Unless you had been specifically taught the proper pronunciation previously and still mispronounced it, the teacher should have just corrected you and moved on.

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      Like the post I saw once where a woman wrote she raped her little sister to help her sleep (with a picture of a baby wrapped in a blanket).

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      More to avoid the “oh sweetie” from people you know and care about.

      Though I wonder how much you could trust the pronunciation if they outsourced the call center to an English-speaking third-world country like Alabama.

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    Benefit of living in Australia is that every word is pronounced wrong so it doesn’t matter how you say it.

    Can’t even pronounce our second largest city right lol. Melbourne became Melbin

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    Then can we force SciFi audiobook narrators to use it?

    Ray Porter, I love you to fucking death, but you kill me sometimes…

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    Conversely, just fucking go for it. Who even cares? Have a laugh about it!

    I think mispronouncing weird words you’ve worked into your vocab is a nice middle ground between sounding insufferable and approachable. Yes I used ameliorate but I also mangled the hell out of it, so how smart could I really be?

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    Let me drop this on fleek resource: www.forvo.com The Pronunciation Dictionary. Longtime user. Ya just search the word, and get results from people all over the world saying it in their native tongue with country specified. It’s great. Hearing Americans say Gouda (a Dutch town famous for the cheese) is like taking a cheese grater to my balls. No, it is not “Goo-dah” of you. Repent!

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    When we were teenagers, my sister had obviously read the phrase “faux pas” and used it (correctly) in a sentence but pronouncing it “fox pass”.

    It was perfect. Like a Mike Myers “what the french call… I don’t know what”.