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English is the LAST language that gets to complain about how you pronounce stuff. Ever read an english word that you haven’t heard before? You’re pronouncing it wrong.
Seriously!
We have a third grader, and he’s pretty good at reading. Recently he has been arguing with us about the pronunciation of some new words from his homework.
The problem is, his arguments are sound! He’s accurately following the rules he learned for sounding out words.
When this has come up in the past, all I’ve been able to do is acknowledge his argument and explain to him how English has all kinds of weird rules and exceptions, and it’s the kind of thing you remember with experience using the words. Like, there is no new rule to learn, and you don’t have to freak out about remembering all these exceptions. It will just come with time. (Because we all know there’s nothing that kids like more than olds telling them to just wait or give it time, lol)
You can work it out through tough thorough thought, though.
Of all people, Gallagher made the point in the 80s. I think George Carlin also did a set about English words once.
English is basically three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trench coat
“Tough” ought to be written as “tuff”
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I imagine they’d rather go further back down the literacy tree to where only the priesthood and nobility could read.
Lucky us, they’re one in the same now!
But tuff is already something else.
that was a fun fact! but I think it’s ok if one word has multiple meanings
No
yes
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
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.
I sure will!
FTFY
This guy absolutely destroys pussy
EDIT: I don’t know why I worded it like that but I stand by it.
Now listen here you little kitten murderer 😾
What’s worse, m*rdering kittens, or posting things that would offend advertisers?
And now, for our sponsors:
things that would offend advertisers?
Won’t someone think of the shareholders! 😭
Wait wait wait wait…I’m pretty good at catching things. You’re saying I could get a drive by kitten adoption? That sounds super fast, efficient, and then I’d have a kitten on my way home from work!
Saving the ecosystem one shitpost at a time
FUCK
I got chu, fam
No thanks, I’m a bit tired right now. Maybe later 🤷
Pretty sure it was the Swedish who decided the pronunciation of “rendezvous”. Kinda obvious, really.
I blame the Danish
Speaking as a Dane, I accept the blame. In fact it was me. I decided it.
Thanks, southern sibling.
You’re welcome, northern not-banana 😁
Us Germans also use this word, but where I come from, we pronounce it RANG-deh-WUH.
Beautiful.
Stop calling me a megalothian!
Megladon?
Megatron?
Mega Man?
No no a Mongolian is a personal who lives in the Mongol region north of China. She called you a Mongoose
No no a Mongoose is a small carnivorous animal. She called you a Monologue.
mongolia is not part of china
The vast majority of mongols are in china, not mongolia.
I’m pretty sure she called you a mango
Not to long ago, I was mourning the loss of the Conversatron 3000. It was a forum site that was nothing but comedy writers, using the medium to tell a flavor of joke and observational humor that could only work on that medium. A lot of it had this formula of “dumb question/observation”, “dumber retort”, “setup”, and finally “witty punchline.” Sometimes, that would just thread on for multiple rounds. Rarely, threads were open to user comments too.
Now I understand why that hasn’t come back. We don’t need it anymore.
When c/lemmyshitpost sees the word “fuck” censored.
Etymology: The word originated from Mr. Rónald Dèus Vu, which the concept is named after. It later simplified to Rón-Dè-Vu
Synonyms: déjà vu, jamais vu
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.
I like liver noise
We got some fun ones by me too, like Ausable river, that comes from French. But we pronounce it Ah-sable(but sable like a sable hair brush)
Nauroin ääneen.
Samma här!
Skål!
No i think he called her a slut
I miss 2019
I miss 1919. Just after the great war, not yet into prohibition or the great depression.
Don’t worry, we could get there again 😬
Rondayvu
I think it’s actually Rondy-Boo
