c/greentext · by Brand@feddit.de · 2yAnon learns about foreign languages 479 points · 46 comments · view on lemmy.world
46 Comments
Ramenator@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 2y
American city names: New-removedshire-Upon-My-Ass
smeg@feddit.uk · 25 pts · 2y
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 2y
Arkansas is the one which was originally named, it comes from the french name of one of the tribes that lived in the region. Kansas just thought it sounded cool.
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y
Then can you explain where, exactly, they're carrying those wayward sons?
samus12345@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
I dunno, but there'll be peace when they are done.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
It's easy when they're just dust in the wind
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
There is a Kansa tribe. No need to erase natives over interstate bullshit.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Didnt know, just kinda assumed due to how often states either split or names get recycled.
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
While in Kansas the Arkansas River is pronounced arr-kansas. Otherwise it's Arkansaw.
Sunfoil@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
You can say removed, it's the internet.
Eidt: wow you actually can't. That's stupid. Literally 1984.
echodot@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 2y
That will be your instances fault everyone else is absolutely fine. Lemmy.world admins are awful.
Anyway we should all be on smaller instances just on general principle.
baduhai@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
That's lemmy.world for ya ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
samus12345@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
New Bundleofsticksshire-Upon-My-Ass
Pregnenolone@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 2y
That’s a brutally discriminatory name these days.
They prefer the term London
li10@feddit.uk · 28 pts · 2y
Always interesting to see people mention my hometown of removedshire online.
I live in South Bummersly these days though.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 2y
Pronounced "Sow bumsly", no doubt.
Thassodar@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y
I'll sow her bumsly, if you know what I mean (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2y
I can picture it. It's definitely a Southern town, no northern industrial city.
I bet it has 12 pubs around a village green.
smeg@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 2y
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 2y
Meanwhile the Americans have the British names but pronounce it completely different because of the fucking bostoners
droans@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y
Don't place the blame on us. The British have changed their dialect like twelve times since we were their colony.
echodot@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 2y
Well that's because you unsubscribed from the language patches, made your own fork and then did nothing with it.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
I assure you we have done plenty with that fork…
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
How do you pronounce Worcester?
filcuk@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
Woster for short
TAG@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
As an American who lived in Worcester, MA for a number of years: Wuster or Wustah
Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Askin' the REAL questions!
skulblaka@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
Worcher
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe · 8 pts · 2y
Also because the British have proven themselves incapable of taking care of the language, as proven every day by cockneys.
13esq@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
The whole point of cockney is that you can tell who is and isn't a local.
echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2y
And by local they mean on the street by street level.
echodot@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2y
Burning, ham
Yet they can pronounce Halifax just fine.
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y
Fugsha lmaooooooo
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 2y
French-sounding places:
Vincennes-sur-l'oisement
Saint-martin-des-Vosges
Mathildeville
Miquelin-les-prés
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 2y
British-sounding places:
Oh wait these are all real British places
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2y
Don't you worry there's plenty to go around in France as well: https://www.lamastreassociationrad.fr/ces-villages-et-lieux-dits-aux-noms-bizarres-et-droles/
Kcryptonian@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y
4channers
Shah_of_Iran@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
Usually 4chan but there are multiple chan-sites
Kcryptonian@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Yes, I later figured. Saw tens of other chans too Thanks.
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
I was slightly disappointed when I learned that 4chan wasn't a play on "fortune"
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 2y
If you put an a at the end the polish name is accurate
spirinolas@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Portugal:
Fodarelho da Raia
Cona-da-Velha
Covide (this one actually exists)
Pintelhos
Estudasses
Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
Americans who pronounce 'Dubois' as DEW-boyse and DU-bwah depending on personal preference.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
We just do that. Miami, FL is pronounced differently than Miami, OK.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
TIL.
Sure we could find other examples.
edit = Someone elese did 'Arkansas' and 'Kansas.'
Justas@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Lithuanian place names be like: Kalabybiškės
GreasyTengu@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Newfoundland names be like:
Come by Chance
Blow me Down
Conception bay
Dildo
smeg@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 2y
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Italy:
Sborate sul Minchio
Pornassio(this one actually exists)
EDIT: formatting