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Which movie is the scene from?
This is from the series The Good Place.
I don't get it. Aren't they pronounced mostly the same?
I'll do my best here - "Aristotle" is pronounced "Air-ih-stot-ul" whereas Chipotle is more like "Chip-oat-lee"
lee
Um what?
Chip-oht-lay
They did say their best. Not that it'd be correct.
Leave them southerners alone. They didn't do nuffin 'cept try to overthrow America twice.
Aristotle is only pronounced like that because Aristoteles was somehow too confusing for English speakers.
Now that you mention it.. he's indeed called Aristoteles in my language.. never noticed the spelling difference in english!
Yup. The British did weird stuff to Roman names out of victorian reasons.
Hadrianus becomes Hadrian, because of anus. They then also shortened others like Pompeius becoming Pompey etc.
I know I'm furthering the immature narrative, butt:
It’s “Chip-oat—lay”…not “lee”
Because the words are from two different languages?
Single hot femalés in your area!
I know this is a joke but idc. The reason for basically every quirk of pronunciation/spelling in English is borrowed words, of which English has very many. Tamales is an obvious/good example.
~~Except it's not even a borrowed word. It's still a Spanish word.~~ nope, I was wrong.
It's a borrowed word because we don't have a translation, though. Tamales are tamales. Also we say tamale for singular but it's tamal in Spanish. It's a loan word in every way.
Oh? My bad, thanks for the correction! 🙏
Also we say tamale for singular
Who's this "we"?
One tamales.
I would like one flock or herd of tamaleese
I sometimes like to mispronounce stuff, that I know the proper pronunciation of, just for kicks and this is just ammo for my annoying habit.
You put the em-PHA-sis on the wrong syl-LAB-le
Or you butcher accents. Like jalapeno.
I love me a good ch-asm
You just like causing cha-os.
Norm?
That would mean "male" is pronounced "molly."
Really more like mall-a (like the letter a, not “ah”).
Only if you pronounce "molly" as "marley"!
I am just the right amount of high for this one. I can coast on this tweet for a solid 20 minute think sesh.
I'm struggling here because I don't know what that word is. So I can't work out what the ultimate pronunciation of female is either
Tamales are a type of food. (Pronounced like Tom-all-ays)
So the joke is making you read "females" (fee-males) like Fem-all-ays
Tah-MAH-lehs would be more accurate. 'Females', read as in Spanish, would be feh-MAH-lehs.
It's easy, you read Spanish as if every vowel had that 'h'. Vowels do not change their sound.
That's a horrible explanation, right? Here. That's how you always pronounce the vowels.
Why can’t ‘tamales’ just be pronounced like “ta-males”?
Otherwise we’ll have to start pronouncing ‘males’ like “mall-ehs”.
how very Canadian, eh?
Just pronounce it oddly enough that people look at you weirdly.
Femalès, with emphasis on the last e. Like "learnèd" (learn-ed, a wise person).
And why aren't Batman and Goodman pronounced the same.
I think it should be Bat-mun.
A better question: How many folks thought they misspelled the second "females"?
how naming a gastro strip club Females and Tamales?