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[–] sxan@midwest.social 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe. But if you image someone with a deep accent, only fundamental reading skills, spelling words by sound... if you read it out loud it almost sounds rural Kentucky, or Tennessee.

Although, I don't know how they came up with "gledding," unless that's how they learned it by hearing it. It's consistently wrong, and no amount of accent accounts for it.

Ooo! I now what it sounds like! Have you ever seen the parody YouTube series "Precious Plum?" It reads like someone with that accent spelling by how they say the words.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Gelding is what they mean and a 1 character transposition happens by accident all the tiem.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I know what they mean; I've owned horses before. It's that they transpose multiple times, and I can't imagine mispronouncing that.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's... A good point. I had missed the second instance somehow

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

Eh. My wife's with you: she thinks it's a troll, too.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 5 months ago

Interestingly enough, it often maeks the same sound.