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[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

The plural is "Chinese Cartoons" duh

[–] Taniwha420@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Go play with your Legos, child.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ahem… Lego bricks or Lego sets

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Excuse me, is that linguistic prescriptivism?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Worse: corporate prescriptivism.

[–] Taniwha420@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Listen here, Zac. The meme is addressed to "Mom", a representative parental figure of - let's assume - Gen X. Now, Gen X was not really into anime, which is the butt of the joke. They weren't a bunch of weebs and probably also refer to group of the Japanese warrior class as 'samurais'. HOWEVER, they called lots of little bricks 'lego'. It was Millennials that started calling them 'legos'.

So, I'm pointing out the hypocrisy.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Only after I started doing it myself did I realize how much our parents/older siblings were messing with us by mispronoucing the shit we cared about as kids.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So basically you're the protagonist of this twitter(?) shitpost:

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

Not the protagonist.

We are legion, my friend.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Reminds me how adults pronounced manga when I was in school. "Mang-ha". Ugh.

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Shut it ya dum sheeps dog!