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minus-squareAlexLost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·8 months agoNiche drives me nuts as a French speaker. It is not Nitch. It is Knee-shh. I will die on this hill
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 months agoAs a non-French speaker, I completely agree with you. If I use a borrowed word, I do my best to pronounce it like a native speaker would.
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoAs a colonizer, I consider it my duty to butcher borrowed/foreign words. You should hear me say bolognese.
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoBuh-LOG-nees. It’s an Italian sauce. Actually pronounced like bolonays
minus-squareoptional@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoCould y’all please stop dieing on hills all the time?! I love hiking, but all the corpses are really disturbing.
minus-squarejaschen306@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoThat K is unnecessary in Knee-shh
Niche drives me nuts as a French speaker. It is not Nitch. It is Knee-shh. I will die on this hill
As a non-French speaker, I completely agree with you. If I use a borrowed word, I do my best to pronounce it like a native speaker would.
As a colonizer, I consider it my duty to butcher borrowed/foreign words. You should hear me say bolognese.
Baloneys?
Buh-LOG-nees.
It’s an Italian sauce. Actually pronounced like bolonays
Ouch.
Could y’all please stop dieing on hills all the time?! I love hiking, but all the corpses are really disturbing.
That K is unnecessary in Knee-shh