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  • G [email protected]

    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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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksS [email protected]

      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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      No, his chaos is thankfully chaos. It would be kind of fitting if it weren't, though.

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      • R [email protected]

        Oh god yes the jimbles on Mays, I had forgotten about that, every time he would say that my brain would go "the what?" It would suck me right out of immersion every damn time.

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        Having not read this (yet! It's planned) what is the word and how is supposed to be pronounced?

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        • J [email protected]

          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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          "English: if you can spell our words we'll literally give you a fucking trophy and a scholarship"

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          • dharmacurious@slrpnk.netD [email protected]

            Having not read this (yet! It's planned) what is the word and how is supposed to be pronounced?

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            Hard-g; "gimbals" see "gimbal lock"

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            • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksS [email protected]

              Does that mean the game on PS4 is Bloodbin in Australia?

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              No because that would be logically consistent

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                No I will pronounce Latin with guterization so bad it'd make a Catholic priest have an aneurysm. Worst part is it actually sounds close to classical Latin or so I've been told.

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                • dharmacurious@slrpnk.netD [email protected]

                  Having not read this (yet! It's planned) what is the word and how is supposed to be pronounced?

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                  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gimbal

                  There's audio for us and UK here.

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                    But isn't the whole point of that to avoid the "oh sweetie..."?

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                    • B [email protected]

                      Depends on if you had a Greek class with Persephone explained also

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                      It's not pursey phone?

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                        Can't you just type a word into merriam webster and get an audio pronouciation?

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                          Hard-g; "gimbals" see "gimbal lock"

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                          Is this one of those gif - jiff type situations?

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                            Is this one of those gif - jiff type situations?

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                            I don't know what the etymology of "gimbal" is...

                            Looks like the precursor words all use soft-g, and wiktionary even says soft-g is an allowed pronunciation.

                            So, yes, I think.

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                            • kinther@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                              Candell-abra is how I was pronouncing it. Yes, I know it's the wrong way

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                              It's pretty close, sounds like you're just pausing at the wrong spot.

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                                I'm old and I HATE dealing with things on a phone call.

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                                Old is a relative term, and Lemmy is an echo chamber of tech-literate people.

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                                  Can't you just type a word into merriam webster and get an audio pronouciation?

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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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                                    Someone didn't watch The Expanse.

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                                    I read it though

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                                      Someone didn't watch The Expanse.

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                                      I learned how to pronounce Nguyen from that show.

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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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                                          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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                                          I'm just doing my part. Sorry luv.

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