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I don't trust it (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Niche drives me nuts as a French speaker. It is not Nitch. It is Knee-shh. I will die on this hill

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a non-French speaker, I completely agree with you. If I use a borrowed word, I do my best to pronounce it like a native speaker would.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a colonizer, I consider it my duty to butcher borrowed/foreign words. You should hear me say bolognese.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Baloneys?

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Buh-LOG-nees.

It's an Italian sauce. Actually pronounced like bolonays

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Ouch.

[–] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Could y'all please stop dieing on hills all the time?! I love hiking, but all the corpses are really disturbing.

[–] KarfiolosHus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Nietzsche

Here you go, now nobody's happy

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

That K is unnecessary in Knee-shh