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Wait wait wait wait…I’m pretty good at catching things. You’re saying I could get a drive by kitten adoption? That sounds super fast, efficient, and then I’d have a kitten on my way home from work!
FTFY
This guy absolutely destroys pussy
EDIT: I don’t know why I worded it like that but I stand by it.
Now listen here you little kitten murderer 😾
What’s worse, m*rdering kittens, or posting things that would offend advertisers?
And now, for our sponsors:
things that would offend advertisers?
Won’t someone think of the shareholders! 😭
I love this
Because god forbid someone reposts an image here from Reddit that had been censored. what a travisty :)
Strangest fucking hill to die on.
The original uncensored version took three seconds on TinEye.com to find.
Again, who cares enough to bother?
Individuals who can spell might care.
ehh, let the votes sort em out :)
I vote for “a big giant astroid to end it all”
…what? Are we not discussing how who we’re going to vote for in 2028?
Shitposting is a art.
Hero.
When c/lemmyshitpost sees the word “fuck” censored.
English is the LAST language that gets to complain about how you pronounce stuff. Ever read an english word that you haven’t heard before? You’re pronouncing it wrong.
Even if you have heard an English word before, you’re probably still pronouncing it wrong
English is basically three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trench coat
Seriously!
We have a third grader, and he’s pretty good at reading. Recently he has been arguing with us about the pronunciation of some new words from his homework.
The problem is, his arguments are sound! He’s accurately following the rules he learned for sounding out words.
When this has come up in the past, all I’ve been able to do is acknowledge his argument and explain to him how English has all kinds of weird rules and exceptions, and it’s the kind of thing you remember with experience using the words. Like, there is no new rule to learn, and you don’t have to freak out about remembering all these exceptions. It will just come with time. (Because we all know there’s nothing that kids like more than olds telling them to just wait or give it time, lol)
You can work it out through tough thorough thought, though.
But this is someone complaining about an English word and how it is pronounced compared to spelling. Yes, it comes from another language. That is the entire reason English has a lot of examples like this.
The UK should do a major spelling reform and troll the shit out of the U.S and their then “archaic” English.
Ðat wúd bē sō sili, hüever it wúd absolútli rúin ŪK-ŪS komūnikāshon
Sum myt sā ðat’s a gúd þing ðō
Of all people, Gallagher made the point in the 80s. I think George Carlin also did a set about English words once.
“Tough” ought to be written as “tuff”
Don’t worry, with the current education policies it will be, soon.
FUCK
We must self censor. To comply with the shitfeed updoots.
I got chu, fam
No thanks, I’m a bit tired right now. Maybe later 🤷
To be fair, usually when a language adopts a new word from other languages, they start spelling it in there own fashion. English is unusual in that they use the original spelling.
French in particular gets a lot of words with original spellings because it used to be the language of the courts in England.
My favorite are British English, who can’t stand the French to the point that they say things like filet with a hard T.
This also reminds me of a recent trip to Colorado, where they do the same thing with Spanish words, anglicizing all of them. Salida (sa-LIE-da) is the first one that’s coming to mind, but I know there are other cities in Colorado that are clearly Spanish words that they’ve just abused.
People from Nevada make a point of pronouncing their state different than the Spanish word
In “there” own fashion huh ?
Pretty sure it was the Swedish who decided the pronunciation of “rendezvous”. Kinda obvious, really.
I blame the Danish
Speaking as a Dane, I accept the blame. In fact it was me. I decided it.
Tap for spoiler
Fuck
No no a Mongolian is a personal who lives in the Mongol region north of China. She called you a Mongoose
No no a Mongoose is a small carnivorous animal. She called you a Monologue.
I’m pretty sure she called you a mango
mongolia is not part of china
The vast majority of mongols are in china, not mongolia.
Us Germans also use this word, but where I come from, we pronounce it RANG-deh-WUH.
Beautiful.
WUH
Is that a German or English w?
German, so like VOO.
Not to long ago, I was mourning the loss of the Conversatron 3000. It was a forum site that was nothing but comedy writers, using the medium to tell a flavor of joke and observational humor that could only work on that medium. A lot of it had this formula of “dumb question/observation”, “dumber retort”, “setup”, and finally “witty punchline.” Sometimes, that would just thread on for multiple rounds. Rarely, threads were open to user comments too.
Now I understand why that hasn’t come back. We don’t need it anymore.
