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Wolf@lemmy.today â¨2⊠â¨days⊠agoThe PB is spelled Jif, not Jiff.
The acronym isnât ridiculous, itâs how the creator of the acronym pronounced it. People should be able to name their own babies.
People should be able to name their own babies.
I disagree. I think persons should name themselves. But, I understand there are practicalities that require some name to be assigned by outsiders at least until the person can talk.
For things that arenât conscious or are incapable of speech, I think we collectively assign a name. Iâm fine giving higher weight to the name chosen by the âcreatorâ or âdiscoverâ, but Iâm not fine with giving them veto power / final cut.
Did you know Dr. Seuss name is actually pronounced more like Zoyce or Soice (rhymes with voice, not moose)? And he wanted people to pronounce it correctly?
Iâm actually usually unconcerned by how people pronounce things, but I think taking a manâs own name away goes a bit far.
I did know that. I donât recall pronouncing it incorrectly since learning that fact, but I donât talk about those books or their author frequently.
Oops, I worded that funky. I didnât mean to accuse you of doing that, just talking about people in general.
I just think itâs an interesting fact.
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Tell that to the SQL folks.
And yes, itâs âsequelâ. And âgifâ like âgiftâ.
Wolf@lemmy.today â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
I did, they say they agree with me.
How do you pronounce Porsche? Do you say âPor-shhâ or âPor-shuhâ?
What about Volkswagen? Is it Volks-wah-gen or Volks-vah-gun?
How about Hyundai? âHon-Dayâ or âHai-un-daiâ
If you look up the âcorrectâ way to pronounce them, I bet you will get a different answer to what you thought it was. Are the former pronunciations only correct in the U.S. but when you travel to Germany or South Korea they become incorrect?
Your argument is a descriptivist one, but how do you determine which is the ârightâ pronunciation if both ways of pronouncing a thing are commonly used?
Interesting, so what do you think of the people in this thread who say that LaTeX is pronounced âLay-techâ? Would the ârightâ way to say it change if enough people started pronouncing it âwrongâ?
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Por-shuh Folks-vah-gun Hun-dai (approximately) Sequel
Mostly I was just joking around though, pronounce stuff however you want
Wolf@lemmy.today â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
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I usually pronounce Volkswagen as âVee-Double-Youâ
I say actually say Hyundai just like you around normies, but my bff and I have an In-joke where we call them âHyun-uh-Dieâ because one time when she was on the phone with someone from the Insurance company, they corrected her pronunciation to that.
I actually love to mispronounce things on purpose, it might be why I chose âJifâ as my little hill to die on lol.
echodot@feddit.uk â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
So is it, go dot, god oh, or gu doh
Wolf@lemmy.today â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Itâs âGuh dohâ I believe.
0x0@lemmy.zip â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
If the vast majority is wrong it doesnât make them right.
Hyundai is correctly pronounced how the hell ever koreans pronounce it.
One not being korean, itâs acceptable to approximate.
Wolf@lemmy.today â¨2⊠â¨days⊠ago
Sure, but who decides which one is right and which one is wrong? In the case of .Gif the people who made it said that it should be pronounced Jif, like the peanut butter, but a lot of people have an issue with that.
Koreans pronounce Hyundai as âHai-un-daiâ, but if you say that or Volkswagen the ârightâ way in America people look at you like you are crazy.
Ok, but itâs not hard do say âHai-un-daiâ, even though most Americans say âHun-dayâ, even in official TV commercials from Hyundai themselves.
In Japan they pronounce sandwich, like Sandoichi. Is it acceptable for them to approximate? Does it being acceptable equate to it being âcorrectâ?
These are all very questions.