how you pronounce Caesar decides if we can be friends or not

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jet@hackertalks.com · 13 pts · 99d (1 reply)

It's pronounced: pizza pizza

wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 98d

Wait, is ol' boy wearing his initials on his undies?

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 99d (10 replies)

Hard C represent.

MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 98d (3 replies)

Tf is a hard C?

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 98d (2 replies)

Like the C in cookie, not like the C in ace

MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 98d (1 reply)

Holy shit, I totally forgot about that. English is a weird language.

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 98d

It certainly is lol

Hawke@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 98d (5 replies)

Which one is hard?

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 98d (4 replies)

The... first one? Lol

Hawke@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d (3 replies)

I mean which pronunciation is considered the “hard C”? Is it the one that sounds like s or the one that sounds like k?

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 98d (2 replies)

The "k" sound is the hard "c" :)

Hawke@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 98d (1 reply)

Thanks. The “hard” / “soft” terminology has never made sense to me, it’s always felt very arbitrary as to which is which. Also useless in the explaining the correct pronunciation of “gif”

T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 98d

English is a silly language. And you're right i don't know of any rules, asides from it just being innate I suppose!

saimen@feddit.org · 8 pts · 98d (1 reply)

TIL the german word Kaiser is directly derived from Caesar :o

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 98d

Also czar, tsar, císař, csaszár, keizer, keisari, kejser, cesarz, césar

Though at least one of those means the specific title of Roman Emperor. Incidentally, "emperor" comes from the latin word imperator.

bhamlin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 99d (1 reply)

Like, the salad or the hero?

MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 98d

You pronounce them differently?

thedormantotaku@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 98d

Czar

ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 98d

Ave, trve to Caesar!