Greentext @sh.itjust.works Brand @feddit.de 10mo ago

Anon learns about foreign languages

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American city names: New-removedshire-Upon-My-Ass
- Have they decided which of Arkansas and Kansas is pronounced correctly? I assume that's what their civil war was about.
  
  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.
  
  While in Kansas the Arkansas River is pronounced arr-kansas. Otherwise it's Arkansaw.
- You can say removed, it's the internet.
  
  Eidt: wow you actually can't. That's stupid. Literally 1984.
  
  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.
  
  That's lemmy.world for ya ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- New Bundleofsticksshire-Upon-My-Ass
That’s a brutally discriminatory name these days.

They prefer the term London
Always interesting to see people mention my hometown of removedshire online.

I live in South Bummersly these days though.
- Pronounced "Sow bumsly", no doubt.
  
  I'll sow her bumsly, if you know what I mean (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
- I can picture it. It's definitely a Southern town, no northern industrial city.
  
  I bet it has 12 pubs around a village green.
I'm from Shitterton
Meanwhile the Americans have the British names but pronounce it completely different because of the fucking bostoners
- Don't place the blame on us. The British have changed their dialect like twelve times since we were their colony.
  
  Well that's because you unsubscribed from the language patches, made your own fork and then did nothing with it.
  
  How do you pronounce Worcester?
- Also because the British have proven themselves incapable of taking care of the language, as proven every day by cockneys.
  
  The whole point of cockney is that you can tell who is and isn't a local.
- Burning, ham
  
  Yet they can pronounce Halifax just fine.
Fugsha lmaooooooo
4channers
- Usually 4chan but there are multiple chan-sites
  
  Yes, I later figured. Saw tens of other chans too Thanks.
French-sounding places:

Vincennes-sur-l'oisement
Saint-martin-des-Vosges
Mathildeville
Miquelin-les-prés
- British-sounding places:
  
  Shitterton
  
  Scratchy Bottom
  
  Cockplay
  
  Penistone
  
  Gay Street, West Sussex
  
  Oh wait these are all real British places
  
  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/
If you put an a at the end the polish name is accurate
Portugal:

Fodarelho da Raia

Cona-da-Velha

Covide (this one actually exists)

Pintelhos

Estudasses
Americans who pronounce 'Dubois' as DEW-boyse and DU-bwah depending on personal preference.
- We just do that. Miami, FL is pronounced differently than Miami, OK.
  
  TIL.
  
  Sure we could find other examples.
  
  edit = Someone elese did 'Arkansas' and 'Kansas.'
Lithuanian place names be like: Kalabybiškės
Newfoundland names be like:

Come by Chance

Blow me Down

Conception bay

Dildo
Italy:

Sborate sul Minchio

Pornassio(this one actually exists)

EDIT: formatting

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