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I always heard it pronounced "cwasont"
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BrigadierSensible posted:Does she still call Istanbul 'Constantinople'? I call it Miklagarði and won’t hear of any of these fancy new terms. 
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Philippe posted:I still can't believe that was a real episode that aired on television.
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FFT posted:What's this? Behold the glory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)
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FFT posted:What's this?
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BrigadierSensible posted:Or Beijing 'Peking'? Oh, hey, I was wondering why it's called that in my native language
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Josef bugman posted:I always heard it pronounced "cwasont" Ditto.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Does she still call Istanbul 'Constantinople'? This is always a weird thing, because that's basically how I pronounce "Paris," but I don't mind that the French call London "Londres" or that Spanish speakers call America "Estados Unidos," but it annoys me that those same Spanish speakers call New York "Neuva York." The worst ever example of this I can think of is seeing a British person on TV call Jay-Z "Jay-Zed." But obviously spelling and pronunciation change over time in attempt to make it closer to the actual word. One of the first foreign treaties a newly independent America made was with the Islamic Kingdom of North Africa (basically all the countries in Africa that border the Mediterranean, two world wars involved Europeans and us severely loving with those borders) and all the contemporary writings from then refer to Muslims as "Mosselmen."
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Mar 7, 2022 10:58
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Skwirl posted:The worst ever example of this I can think of is seeing a British person on TV call Jay-Z "Jay-Zed." Yeah they were taking the piss, no-one actually says that. Unless they had somehow failed to hear of him at all. I'm pretty sure the zed pronunciation is dying out anyway, which is fine, it's not like we say Ay Bed Ced Ded
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goblin week posted:Oh, hey, I was wondering why it's called that in my native language The current system of pinyin is much more functional to actually write chinese than systems invented by foreigners, so a lot of the old names look totally unrelated.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Motherfuckers like this give the rest of you Americans a bad name. Ngl didn’t know we could even have a good one
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Shrecknet posted:If you travel fast enough you get turned into a fish
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Disappointed this doesn't end on that comment chain being turned into a D۽D character
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Splicer posted:A sad case of science obsoleting science fiction. It's actually crabs. I can envision a future crab with unseen, psionic claws. Claws of the Mind.
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christmas boots posted:Ver-sails motherfucker I too am from Illinois
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Skwirl posted:The worst ever example of this I can think of is seeing a British person on TV call Jay-Z "Jay-Zed." But that’s the correct pronunciation?
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I say "pair - iss" and "vair - sigh" except also it's been years since I've had any reason to say either so who even cares
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Cloacamazing! posted:How do English speakers pronounce croissant? Croy-sand? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1wqpTakGsE
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"All those poors in one place...horrifying."
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Skwirl posted:This is always a weird thing, because that's basically how I pronounce "Paris," but I don't mind that the French call London "Londres" or that Spanish speakers call America "Estados Unidos," but it annoys me that those same Spanish speakers call New York "Neuva York." The worst ever example of this I can think of is seeing a British person on TV call Jay-Z "Jay-Zed." Zed Zed Top 
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I think that this kind of framing plays into Musk’s nonsense. Musk knows what subways are; there’s just no way for him to make money on them, so he wants to replace them with tunnels his company dug filled with cars his company made.
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Pththya-lyi posted:"All those poors in one place...horrifying." Wait, I thought Lovecraft talk was a different thread?
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Heath posted:I too am from Illi-nwa
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AlbieQuirky posted:I think that this kind of framing plays into Musk’s nonsense. Musk knows what subways are; there’s just no way for him to make money on them, so he wants to replace them with tunnels his company dug filled with cars his company made. I mean even then it doesn’t work. I’m not sure how his company tunnels could prevent traffic
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean even then it doesn’t work. I’m not sure how his company tunnels could prevent traffic It's not about preventing traffic for everyone, it's about preventing traffic for the rich
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He isn't alone in that plenty of planners have decided that the solution to traffic is to build more/bigger roads. The fact that this only makes traffic worse because people just drive more, didn't stop them from doing it, though I think nowadays it is generally understood to be a bad idea by a lot of people. Still the ideological commitment to cars means that public officials often will not consider mass transit as an option, and if they do they want some stupid thing that would be better solved by just building a bus line or a train.
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Ngl I'll take listening to my podcasts in a beater over futurama tubes. Plus it gets a ton of taxis and chauffeurs off the streets. Have your tubes.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Ngl I'll take listening to my podcasts in a beater over futurama tubes. Plus it gets a ton of taxis and chauffeurs off the streets. Have your tubes. just listen to your podcasts in the goddamn tube
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christmas boots posted:Ver-sails motherfucker Hoosier spotted! And you forgot to mention Vin-SINS.
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OwlFancier posted:and if they do they want some stupid thing that would be better solved by just building a bus line or a train. I like trams though 
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean even then it doesn’t work. I’m not sure how his company tunnels could prevent traffic Well, yeah. He doesn’t really want to “prevent traffic,” he wants to make money on an alternative “rich people only” traffic system.
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I was playing two degrees of separation to see just how awful some of my friend's friends were. In case you were wondering, Trump would solve the Russia / Ukraine situation by being big tough man.  Also - God fuckin' drat: 
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Hoosier spotted! And you forgot to mention Vin-SINS. Nah, I’m PNW born and bred but I have a French mom so I’ve definitely learned all the ways to say the French things wrong
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mrpwase posted:I like trams though A tram is a kind of train.
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Oh! In Indiana, there are two towns named Vincennes and Versailles, pronounced vin-SINS and ver-SAILS. Both originally part of New France.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Ngl I'll take listening to my podcasts in a beater over futurama tubes. Plus it gets a ton of taxis and chauffeurs off the streets. Have your tubes. It would not do this
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Orville Peck is a great country singer, and also gay. Here's a Youtube comment on his newest video:Henry Gore posted:Crap total crap. Cody jinks sooo much better than this poo poo. A flash in the pan here today and gone tomorrow. thereareonly2genders Can you still say "flash in the pan, here today and gone tomorrow" if the guy's been around since 2019 and is only getting more popular?  (Seriously, Orville Peck is fantastic. Check him out even if country ain't normally your thing.) Tony Phillips posted:Also - God fuckin' drat: Holy poo poo, that is vile.
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