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[–] teft@startrek.website 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ZeroXHunter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which movie is the scene from?

[–] teft@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

This is from the series The Good Place.

[–] 5dashes@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't get it. Aren't they pronounced mostly the same?

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'll do my best here - "Aristotle" is pronounced "Air-ih-stot-ul" whereas Chipotle is more like "Chip-oat-lee"

[–] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Chip-oht-lay

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aristotle is only pronounced like that because Aristoteles was somehow too confusing for English speakers.

[–] archon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now that you mention it.. he's indeed called Aristoteles in my language.. never noticed the spelling difference in english!

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FluminaInMaria@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I know I'm furthering the immature narrative, butt:

[–] ZeroDrek@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It’s “Chip-oat—lay”…not “lee”

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because the words are from two different languages?

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Single hot femalés in your area!

[–] Moneo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~Except it's not even a borrowed word. It's still a Spanish word.~~ nope, I was wrong.

[–] agnomeunknown@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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! 🙏

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also we say tamale for singular

Who's this "we"?

[–] indepndnt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] StuffYouFear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I would like one flock or herd of tamaleese

[–] sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] kambusha@feddit.ch 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You put the em-PHA-sis on the wrong syl-LAB-le

[–] sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Or you butcher accents. Like jalapeno.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

You just like causing cha-os.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago
[–] trent@ttrpg.network 13 points 1 year ago
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That would mean "male" is pronounced "molly."

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Really more like mall-a (like the letter a, not “ah”).

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only if you pronounce "molly" as "marley"!

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

I am just the right amount of high for this one. I can coast on this tweet for a solid 20 minute think sesh.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] SaddieTheMad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why can’t ‘tamales’ just be pronounced like “ta-males”?

Otherwise we’ll have to start pronouncing ‘males’ like “mall-ehs”.

[–] allroy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

how very Canadian, eh?

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

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).

[–] Stretch2m@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

And why aren't Batman and Goodman pronounced the same.

I think it should be Bat-mun.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

A better question: How many folks thought they misspelled the second "females"?

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

how naming a gastro strip club Females and Tamales?