English is the LAST language that gets to complain about how you pronounce stuff. Ever read an english word that you have’nt heard before? You’re pronouncing it wrong.
Typical monopoly people
Submitted 12 hours ago by ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world to [deleted]
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arandomthought@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 minute ago
English is basically three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trench coat
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You can work it out through tough thorough thought, though.
Aljernon@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
Even if you have heard an English word before, you’re probably still pronouncing it wrong
AstaKask@lemmy.cafe 11 hours ago
The UK should do a major spelling reform and troll the shit out of the U.S and their then “archaic” English.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Ðat wúd bē sō sili, hüever it wúd absolútli rúin ŪK-ŪS komūnikāshon
Sum myt sā ðat’s a gúd þing ðō
faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 10 hours ago
UK is the worst, US makes sense at least to some degree.
Gloucestershire - pronounced glostershire Warwick - pronounced warrick And there like hundreds of these weird ones.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 10 hours ago
The UK accent is actually more “modern” than the US one because the US one is more aligned with the accent imported around the time of colonialism.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
But this is someone complaining about an English word and how it is pronounced. Yes, it comes from another language. That is the entire reason English has a lot of examples like this.
robocall@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
“Tough” should be written as “tuff”
Brainsploosh@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Don’t worry, with the current education policies it will be, soon.
lividweasel@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Of all people, Gallagher made the point in the 80s. I think George Carlin also did a set about English words once.
FishFace@piefed.social 10 hours ago
But the point is that the person complaining isn’t complaining about the French, but about some imagined English dude who picked the pronunciation of rendezvous for fun
arandomthought@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Fair enough. Then it must have been the same dude who decided all the other words with random pronounciations. If you find them, tell them to go fuck themself.
Aljernon@lemmy.today 2 hours ago
To be fair, usually when a language adopts a new word from other languages, they start spelling it in there own fashion. English is unusual in that they use the original spelling.
this@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Not always, the word skosh(meaning just a little bit or a tiny amount) comes from the Japanese word sukoshi(少し), but that can probably be attributed to the language not generally using romanized letters.
It’s a very interesting word to me since its one of the very few words that migrated from Japanese to English and isn’t a name of something. The way it came over is also rather interesting, as it was through collaboration between us and Japanese soldiers during the Korean war.
BigDiction@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
One of the funniest aspects of Detroit is how bastardized all the French street names are pronounced by locals. Gratiot, Dequindre, Livernois come to mind but there are too many examples.
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 1 hour ago
I like liver noise
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Us Germans also use this word, but where I come from, we pronounce it RANG-deh-WUH.
Beautiful.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
No i think he called her a slut
Klear@quokk.au 10 hours ago
FUCK
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
No thanks, I’m a bit tired right now. Maybe later 🤷
jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
We must self censor. To comply with the shitfeed updoots.
X@piefed.world 11 hours ago
Pretty sure it was the Swedish who decided the pronunciation of “rendezvous”. Kinda obvious, really.
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 10 hours ago
I blame the Danish
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Speaking as a Dane, I accept the blame. In fact it was me. I decided it.
djmikeale@feddit.dk 6 hours ago
Hov hov du
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
They stole the sound from French letters during the Franco-Swedish War.
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
No no a Mongolian is a personal who lives in the Mongol region north of China. She called you a Mongoose
Qtech@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
No no a Mongoose is a small carnivorous animal. She called you a Monologue.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
mongolia is not part of china
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
The vast majority of mongols are in china, not mongolia.
robocall@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Rondayvu
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I think it’s actually Rondy-Boo
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The screenshot of a Twitter conversation OP posted, but in higher quality, without the added censorship over the word “fuck,” and without the users’ usernames erased. @notviking posts, “who the fuck decided rendesvous would be pronounced like that” @CathyJoBaker replies, “Poor monolinguals. They can’t seem to understand that other languages besides English exist” @notviking replies, “what the fuck did u just call me” @CarsonElquist replies, “She called you Mongolian”
Picture of a sad-looking kitten and the text "Every time you post a censored meme to a community labeled “SHITPOST” a kitten is thrown into busy traffic. Cut that bullshit out. Think of the fucking kittens.