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[–] 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