Just say ruling class or owner class. It's easier for you to spell and easier for the average reader to understand (and accept, if they've been subjected to anti-communist propaganda).
Yep. The main reason to use bourgeoisie would be to seem smart or in discussion about materials that use it or you're French. Outside that, common native language translations are always more effective.
::: alt text because i dont know how to add that in a comment
(grimace sits in a deck chair on a boat in the frankly nightmarish klasky csupo ronald mcdonald adventures cartoon in which the mcdonaldland residents become kinky pirates, that itself aired in a tv show that viciously ripped off its entire concept and format from Peewee's Playhouse during the time in which Paul Reubens himself was being ostracized from public life for being a gay man. they even got mark mothersbaugh, who did the music both for Rugrats and the playhouse itself, to write the score. (satire becomes reality, spud boy?) anyway i edited the screenshot so grimace is confidently saying "burgwer Z" while captain ronald mcjack fucking sparrow and his talking dog who looks and sounds like The Gromble from aaahh real monsters look on in horror.)
:::
French spelling needs to go on a diet and shed some superfluous letters. We have a city pronounced the same as Bordeaux here in Norway: https://maps.app.goo.gl/vt11qRzt3wvzbhar6
I just go for the term of my forefathers "rich profligate sonsovbitches" I may talk like a hick but I am learned, though I also refuse to speak French if I can help it, whole damned language feels like Latin with a concussion and several problems.
"bougie" (pronounced the same) can also refer to a slender blue plastic rod ever so slightly crooked at the end, used to aid in placement of an endotracheal tube. you use the crooked tip to feel the ribbing of the trachea, then insert the ET tube around the bougie. not ideal to use without also using a laryngoscope but one of several methods of confirmation, since ventilation into the wrong organ can have disastrous consequences
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Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 64 pts · 243d
Just say ruling class or owner class. It's easier for you to spell and easier for the average reader to understand (and accept, if they've been subjected to anti-communist propaganda).
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 243d
"Corpos".
Or, to use William Gibson's more current vernacular:
"Klepts".
EDIT:
Eldritch@piefed.world · 19 pts · 243d
Yep. The main reason to use bourgeoisie would be to seem smart or in discussion about materials that use it or you're French. Outside that, common native language translations are always more effective.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 243d
'Filthy parasites' also works.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 242d
"Corpo Scum."
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org · 5 pts · 242d
Careful there, might attract more extremist xenophobes there, same vocabulary and all...
Which is why I prefer rich assholes, billionaire idiots or people who rather prefer to destroy earth then share it.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 241d
I'm okay with making them suffer that cognitive dissonance.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 242d
vampires
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 241d
Except vampires at least drink the blood they steal
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 241d
hey take it up with Karl Marx, i'm not who came up with the metaphor
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 241d
He was a Harman living in the mid 19the century! The creatures he would've meant when he said 'vampire' are barely the same as what you'd mean!
Schmoo@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 242d
We gotta bring back the term "robber barons."
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 243d
Or "capitalist owners" more precisely.
novibe@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 241d
I hate “ruling class”. It feels defeatist. Like yeah, they are the rulers what can ya do about it?
Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 241d
They are the current rulers. Rulers can be overthrown. And I think that framing it that way gives people an accurate idea of what will be required.
oculi@anarchist.nexus · 33 pts · 243d
brax@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 243d
Borgussy
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 243d
It's pretty bougie to know how to spell bourgeoisie, ngl.
overkrill@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 243d
::: alt text because i dont know how to add that in a comment
(grimace sits in a deck chair on a boat in the frankly nightmarish klasky csupo ronald mcdonald adventures cartoon in which the mcdonaldland residents become kinky pirates, that itself aired in a tv show that viciously ripped off its entire concept and format from Peewee's Playhouse during the time in which Paul Reubens himself was being ostracized from public life for being a gay man. they even got mark mothersbaugh, who did the music both for Rugrats and the playhouse itself, to write the score. (satire becomes reality, spud boy?) anyway i edited the screenshot so grimace is confidently saying "burgwer Z" while captain ronald mcjack fucking sparrow and his talking dog who looks and sounds like The Gromble from aaahh real monsters look on in horror.) :::
lena@gregtech.eu · 14 pts · 243d
You can embed alt text in an image by putting it inside the square brackets, like this:
overkrill@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 242d
👍thanks screenshotting
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
Americans pronouncing crossaint (kho-sant) : kwa-son!
Americans pronouncing bourgeoisie (bor djwa zee) : burgerzee
guken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 243d
B-our-geo-is-ie.... I spell it out as if it's a phrase. A nonsensical, incomprehensible phrase but it works 🤷🏾♂️
tlmcleod@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 243d
This is how I learned to remember to spell "together" as a small child. To-get-her. Shit works lol
snoons@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 242d
Together? I hardly know her.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 243d
Haves and not haves
Workers vs owners
Trust fund babies
Billionaires
Wealth hoarders
Today’s language actually has lots of options
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 242d
j5906@feddit.org · 2 pts · 242d
Guillotine lubricant
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 239d
Dragons are extremely cool magical fantasy creatures
Rich fucks are extremely real and cool as rotten dog shit
uncouple9831@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 242d
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 10 pts · 243d
burger-z
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 243d
The burgeroise
snoons@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 242d
Bureau of Bourgeoisie Boulangeries
thorhop@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 243d
The borgys...
Don't at me, you know I'm right. We need to defrenchify to reenrichify the Inglish languadj... goddang it.
lodart@piefed.social · 6 pts · 243d
In France, we litteraly learn to spell it in first grade. We still have the bourgeoisie though...
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 243d
French spelling needs to go on a diet and shed some superfluous letters. We have a city pronounced the same as Bordeaux here in Norway: https://maps.app.goo.gl/vt11qRzt3wvzbhar6
Miaou@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 243d
The R in Bordeaux is not silent. Is there also one pronounced in that Norwegian name?
HasturInYellow@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 242d
Technoghouls
overkrill@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 242d
Gabalghouls
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 2 pts · 242d
Woke up this mooornin
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 242d
I just go for the term of my forefathers "rich profligate sonsovbitches" I may talk like a hick but I am learned, though I also refuse to speak French if I can help it, whole damned language feels like Latin with a concussion and several problems.
otacon239@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 243d
Burrgoyzee
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 241d
Is this where 'bougie' came from?
Because most people can't spell the OG version?
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 243d
I have automated my spelling of bourgeoisie, as the immortal science of Marxism says we must. And totally not because I'm lazy.
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 243d
boorish, was he?
Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 243d
Bougwahnanana
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 4 pts · 243d
overkrill@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 242d
"bougie" (pronounced the same) can also refer to a slender blue plastic rod ever so slightly crooked at the end, used to aid in placement of an endotracheal tube. you use the crooked tip to feel the ribbing of the trachea, then insert the ET tube around the bougie. not ideal to use without also using a laryngoscope but one of several methods of confirmation, since ventilation into the wrong organ can have disastrous consequences
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 243d
SuiXi3D@fedia.io · 3 pts · 243d
Mon Français est merde.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 243d
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
me speaking : colleague
me writing: co-worker
Ethalis@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 243d
The cheat code for this is being a native french speaker. Can't pronounce "squirrel" though, si it's not a perfect solution
verdi@feddit.org · 3 pts · 243d
*Usanian pseudo-leftists
FTFY
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 243d
Cake aficionados.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 2 pts · 243d
::: spoiler Easy! Lord Farquaad :::
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 242d
Boojoys
Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 243d
Its easy: Burgös, literally translated " cage pike-perch"
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 243d
"Hey, Uwe, how the shwarzschwanz to you spell 'boodgy'?!"
-- Karl Marx, probably
gustofwind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
Borgwazee
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 1 pts · 242d
I before E, except at the start of bourgeoisie, but after O, not like IOU, such as when capitalists promise you earnings from their profit too.
umbraroze@piefed.social · 1 pts · 241d
Singular "porvari", plural "porvarit", social class "porvaristo". Finnish is easy!