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minus-squareAlexLost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·3 days agoNiche drives me nuts as a French speaker. It is not Nitch. It is Knee-shh. I will die on this hill
minus-squareoptional@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoCould y’all please stop dieing on hills all the time?! I love hiking, but all the corpses are really disturbing.
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoAs a non-French speaker, I completely agree with you. If I use a borrowed word, I do my best to pronounce it like a native speaker would.
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoAs a colonizer, I consider it my duty to butcher borrowed/foreign words. You should hear me say bolognese.
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 days agoBuh-LOG-nees. It’s an Italian sauce. Actually pronounced like bolonays
minus-squareKarfiolosHus@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoNietzsche Here you go, now nobody’s happy
minus-squarejaschen306@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoThat K is unnecessary in Knee-shh
Niche drives me nuts as a French speaker. It is not Nitch. It is Knee-shh. I will die on this hill
Could y’all please stop dieing on hills all the time?! I love hiking, but all the corpses are really disturbing.
As a non-French speaker, I completely agree with you. If I use a borrowed word, I do my best to pronounce it like a native speaker would.
As a colonizer, I consider it my duty to butcher borrowed/foreign words. You should hear me say bolognese.
Baloneys?
Buh-LOG-nees.
It’s an Italian sauce. Actually pronounced like bolonays
Ouch.
Nietzsche
Here you go, now nobody’s happy
That K is unnecessary in Knee-shh