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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Wilkes-Barre is easy, now say Lebanon, Bala Cynwyd, or Schuylkill correctly Deeply curious how you pronounce Lebanon.
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mossyfisk posted:Deeply curious how you pronounce Lebanon. it is hilariously "leb-nin"
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cairo il is a midwest favorite
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There are places in Ohio named rio grand, Versailles and Russia. Pronounced rye-oh grand, vur-sales, and roo-she by the locals. I'm sure this is only scratching the surface
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Personal fave: Bellefontaine, Ohio pronounced, you guessed it, Bell Fountain
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Chicago area is full of mispronounced French names. My favorite is Bourbonnais. It was pronounced "Bur-bonus" for decades before the city passed a resolution stating the proper French pronunciation. Imo if the French want their language pronounced properly they shouldn't cram it full of silent letters
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there's a gravois street i live near in st louis and i still want to 'mispronounce' it
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My high school German teacher (in Ohio) would get really frustrated at the local pronunciation of Berlin, Ohio (BURR-ln)
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Dr. Kyle Farnsworth posted:Very long piece in the Columbia Journalism Review about the NYT chasing Russiagate when it was nothin' at all...nothin' at all...nothin' at all. First part was an incredible read just for the closeness between campaigns, journalists, and top feds I love the little song and dance about the dossier news. A top McCain aide "stepped out of the room" while a journalist at a c tier publication photographed the dossier, then that place told the fbi they were going to publish, so comey said he had to brief trump, and the briefing was was cnn rt Al used to justify reporting on it. Huge amount of kabuki mastershakeman has issued a correction as of 16:13 on Feb 1, 2023 |
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gawker dead again, rip they had some ok articles here and there https://twitter.com/leahfinnegan/status/1620785743139590144
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:gawker dead again, rip they had some ok articles here and there I am as shocked as anyone to learn there was a relaunch of Gawker
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:gawker dead again, rip they had some ok articles here and there No! No! I need to see Hulk Hogan loving some radio personality's wife! Who's gonna publish this kind of hard hitting news now that Gawker is shut down again!
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PERPETUAL IDIOT posted:No! No! I need to see Hulk Hogan loving some radio personality's wife! Who's gonna publish this kind of hard hitting news now that Gawker is shut down again! dumb take, they published epstein's black book when nobody else would
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Every big newspapers are apparently planning 5 to 10% layoffs. Gawker going down make sense.brugroffil posted:Imo if the French want their language pronounced properly they shouldn't cram it full of silent letters  My favorite us style mispronunciation of a french word is "Coup de Grace" (blow of mercy, pronounced like the grace in "amazing grace") which US people tend to pronounce "Coup de Gras" (blow of fat, like mardi gras or fois gras) At least it kinda make sense with US' love of wresting and of body slam. On the other hand, if you really want to pronounce the T of Croissant that much (because of the way you detect/pronounce plurals), just use the direct translation "Crescent". Toplowtech has issued a correction as of 17:54 on Feb 1, 2023 |
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as a US citizen i cannot get enough of wrestling and of body slam
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the milk machine posted:as a US citizen i cannot get enough of wrestling and of body slam
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Toplowtech posted:We would happily send you another giant if we could only find one. The last one was quite happy in the US. andre was cool. another cool frenchperson was napoleon bonaparte imo. i like his little outfits
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Toplowtech posted:We would happily send you another giant if we could only find one. The last one was quite happy in the US.  now it's Americas turn again tho
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Real hurthling! posted:it is hilariously "leb-nin" vladimir libnin
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Toplowtech posted:My favorite us style mispronunciation of a french word is "Coup de Grace" (blow of mercy, pronounced like the grace in "amazing grace") which US people tend to pronounce "Coup de Gras" (blow of fat, like mardi gras or fois gras) At least it kinda make sense with US' love of wresting and of body slam. it's because they're hamburger people
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Gawker was a rag, rip in piss
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Toplowtech posted:We would happily send you another giant if we could only find one. The last one was quite happy in the US. He loved the small town that he settled down in. They all called him Mr. Roussimoff and didn't bug him because he was famous or made him feel weird for being huge. He got to drink wine and play hearts with regulars at the cafe. Probably close to heaven for the guy.
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he is but reporting that a guy loves alex jones enough to appear at his film premiere or whatever seems like a pretty easy mistake to not make if you're a remotely competent journalist
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There's a even shittier place outside the shithole of Augusta, Georgia by the name of Martinez. It's pronounced MARtin-ehz. The locals have no idea what the gently caress you are talking about if you say it the normal way.
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GalacticAcid posted:the failing new york times are cutting their copy desk in half so it's gonna be even shittier now lol
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cat botherer posted:There's a even shittier place outside the shithole of Augusta, Georgia by the name of Martinez. Don’t forget Ubatoi (pronounced yoo-buh-toy), and Vienna (pronounced Vye-enna). Supposedly the latter at least has a banger BBQ festival.
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Whoops, that was in 2017. It already happened.
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Zvahl posted:there's a gravois street i live near in st louis and i still want to 'mispronounce' it Gravois (and Illinois) is pronounced correctly, the vowel lengthening in French that produced the modern pronunciation was post-1800, so using it in St. Louis would be anachronistic. That's different from something like Cairo that is obviously just a mispronunciation of an exotic word. We do have our own Bell Fountain neighbors though. And I'm suspicious about Creeve Coeur.
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ProperGanderPusher posted:Don’t forget Ubatoi (pronounced yoo-buh-toy), and Vienna (pronounced Vye-enna). Supposedly the latter at least has a banger BBQ festival. Sausages ONLY!
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Toplowtech posted:
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Love the Times. Desantis is "taking on" the establishment, i.e., turning the entire Florida higher education system into Liberty U. Meanwhile, Bret Stephens' ex talks about how campus "free speech" was threatened by communication guidelines issued by a single Stanford department that were never adopted anywhere. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opinion/free-speech-stanford.html Lol. We got op-eds about the collapse of the health care "system" and racist policing next to lifestyle bullshit and Catholic griping about woke culture. It's the paper where coherent thought goes to die. Ideological diversity making everyone dumber.
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Love Rat posted:Love the Times. They have Kenken though
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Love Rat posted:Love the Times. I used to think that the Post was the worse of the two papers because of McFardle and Bedbug. Maybe not...
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:featuring this quote with attribution in this way is v funny to me wait theres been a 1619 project series on hulu this whole time
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