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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/3916101

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ameri*an mfs removing random letters from words and pretending they weren't important

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Except for “bouy”, which they somehow pronounce with more syllables than there are vowels in the word.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

English has no say in this. We have to learn every English word twice, once for the pronunciation and once for the spelling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I love how the French got to weird up English as well. Whenever you ask youself "Wth is it written/pronounced this way?" The answer is always "Word adopted from French." 😸

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

English and French are on opposite ends of the spectrum of how predictable the pronunciation of a word is, based on the spelling. French may have a ton of extra letters, but at least it's consistent. The english language has so many exceptions to its rules that you effectively need to learn to pronounce almost every single word separately.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

C'est tout à fait vrai. Et nous continuerons de le faire!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Three people in a bar are arguing who speaks the most complicated language.

The English guy: "Well, we write London, but pronounce it ˈlʌndən"

The French guy: "We write Bordeaux, but pronounce it bɔʀdo"

The German guy: "That's nothing. We write "Wie bitte?" [i beg your pardon] and pronounce it hʌ?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You chose London from the British one? How about Loughborough? Worcestershire? Every -ough word?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I know, it's just a way to make the joke more ridiculous with the (obviously nonsense German in the end). Because in the end, swapping "I beg your pardon" to "huh?" should work in basically all languages, I guess.

I could have started with the French guy using "Paris" and then one of your places for the English guy. I could have kept the French guy on Bordeaux and used a German town like "Duisburg" as a starter - which is one of the cases, where you cannot use the usual rules to guess, how to pronounce the ui. And then do the pun in any other language with a random fourth guy.