I know this is a joke but idc. The reason for basically every quirk of pronunciation/spelling in English is borrowed words, of which English has very many. Tamales is an obvious/good example.
It's a borrowed word because we don't have a translation, though. Tamales are tamales. Also we say tamale for singular but it's tamal in Spanish. It's a loan word in every way.
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teft@startrek.website · 72 pts · 2y
ZeroXHunter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Which movie is the scene from?
teft@startrek.website · 4 pts · 2y
This is from the series The Good Place.
5dashes@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 2y
I don't get it. Aren't they pronounced mostly the same?
kn33@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
I'll do my best here - "Aristotle" is pronounced "Air-ih-stot-ul" whereas Chipotle is more like "Chip-oat-lee"
NewNewAccount@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
Um what?
RGB3x3@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2y
Chip-oht-lay
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
They did say their best. Not that it'd be correct.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Leave them southerners alone. They didn't do nuffin 'cept try to overthrow America twice.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 2y
Aristotle is only pronounced like that because Aristoteles was somehow too confusing for English speakers.
archon@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Now that you mention it.. he's indeed called Aristoteles in my language.. never noticed the spelling difference in english!
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 2y
Yup. The British did weird stuff to Roman names out of victorian reasons.
Hadrianus becomes Hadrian, because of anus. They then also shortened others like Pompeius becoming Pompey etc.
FluminaInMaria@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 2y
I know I'm furthering the immature narrative, butt:
ivanafterall@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
Sounds like we did him a favor.
ZeroDrek@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
It’s “Chip-oat—lay”…not “lee”
Anticorp@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 2y
Because the words are from two different languages?
Guru_Insights99@lemm.ee · -13 pts · 2y
Racist
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 2 pts · 2y
how do you figure
pelerinli@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
With pen or pencil
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 1 pts · 2y
ivanafterall@kbin.social · 39 pts · 2y
You've just been pronouncing females wrong this whole time and everybody was too embarrassed to correct you.
Fuh-MAH-lays, just like it looks.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
By jove, there the whole time!
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Is that pronounced Jove like dove or Jove like hoes?
grue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Ho-veh
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
So it's pronounced like how a Boston person would say hover?
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y
Haha, silly hu-mans.
spicytuna62@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y
Single hot femalés in your area!
guyrocket@kbin.social · 27 pts · 2y
I like my fe-mah-lays like I like my ta-mah-lays. Steaming hot and wrapped in corn husks!
Right?!? Guys?!?
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 24 pts · 2y
You can just say Midwestern.
guyrocket@kbin.social · 12 pts · 2y
Midwestern.
Now what?
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 9 pts · 2y
Now you wait for the corn of your dreams.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
Instructions unclear, ended up on CornHub instead
RGB3x3@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
Guys, it's real:
https://cornhub.website/
It's SFW
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
A good girl in a straw hat with her arms out in a corn field.
malijaffri@feddit.ch · 4 pts · 2y
That is a scarecrow.
Edit: ::: spoiler spoiler, context
I just went back to the song and watched it again, which turned into a Bo Burnham marathon. He is absolutely amazing!
:::
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y
I'm hoping my Southern charm offsets all these rapey vibes I'm putting out
Moneo@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
I know this is a joke but idc. The reason for basically every quirk of pronunciation/spelling in English is borrowed words, of which English has very many. Tamales is an obvious/good example.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Except it's not even a borrowed word. It's still a Spanish word.nope, I was wrong.agnomeunknown@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y
It's a borrowed word because we don't have a translation, though. Tamales are tamales. Also we say tamale for singular but it's tamal in Spanish. It's a loan word in every way.
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Oh? My bad, thanks for the correction! 🙏
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Who's this "we"?
indepndnt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
One tamales.
StuffYouFear@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
I would like one flock or herd of tamaleese
Moneo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 2y
I sometimes like to mispronounce stuff, that I know the proper pronunciation of, just for kicks and this is just ammo for my annoying habit.
kambusha@feddit.ch · 9 pts · 2y
You put the em-PHA-sis on the wrong syl-LAB-le
sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
Or you butcher accents. Like jalapeno.
Infynis@midwest.social · 5 pts · 2y
I love me a good ch-asm
sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y
You just like causing cha-os.
can@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Norm?
trent@ttrpg.network · 13 pts · 2y
Reminds me of this poem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 13 pts · 2y
That would mean "male" is pronounced "molly."
smeg@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2y
Only if you pronounce "molly" as "marley"!
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
I'm a nice little molly
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Really more like mall-a (like the letter a, not “ah”).
modifier@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 2y
I am just the right amount of high for this one. I can coast on this tweet for a solid 20 minute think sesh.
echodot@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 2y
I'm struggling here because I don't know what that word is. So I can't work out what the ultimate pronunciation of female is either
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website · 2 pts · 2y
Tamales are a type of food. (Pronounced like Tom-all-ays)
So the joke is making you read "females" (fee-males) like Fem-all-ays
SaddieTheMad@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Tah-MAH-lehs would be more accurate. 'Females', read as in Spanish, would be feh-MAH-lehs.
It's easy, you read Spanish as if every vowel had that 'h'. Vowels do not change their sound.
That's a horrible explanation, right? Here. That's how you always pronounce the vowels.
paddirn@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Why can’t ‘tamales’ just be pronounced like “ta-males”?
Otherwise we’ll have to start pronouncing ‘males’ like “mall-ehs”.
allroy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
how very Canadian, eh?
Gork@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
Just pronounce it oddly enough that people look at you weirdly.
Femalès, with emphasis on the last e. Like "learnèd" (learn-ed, a wise person).
Stretch2m@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
And why aren't Batman and Goodman pronounced the same.
I think it should be Bat-mun.
Num10ck@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
how naming a gastro strip club Females and Tamales?
ivanafterall@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
Operate out of an old train car. Dolly's Females and Tamales Trolley.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
A better question: How many folks thought they misspelled the second "females"?
FartsWithAnAccent@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
I'm going to start pronouncing them both the same