greentext·GreentextbyBrand Anon learns about foreign languagesView original on feddit.de479Comments46
vaultdweller013 replysh.itjust.works5Hide 5 repliesArkansas 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.23
RRose Thorne(She/Her) replylemm.ee2Hide 2 repliesThen can you explain where, exactly, they're carrying those wayward sons?8
PPsychedSy replysh.itjust.works1Hide 1 replyThere is a Kansa tribe. No need to erase natives over interstate bullshit.2
vaultdweller013 replysh.itjust.worksDidnt know, just kinda assumed due to how often states either split or names get recycled.2
PPsychedSy replysh.itjust.worksWhile in Kansas the Arkansas River is pronounced arr-kansas. Otherwise it's Arkansaw.1
SSunfoil replylemmy.world2Hide 2 repliesYou can say removed, it's the internet. Eidt: wow you actually can't. That's stupid. Literally 1984.11
EEcho Dot replyfeddit.ukThat 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.4
PPregnenolone lemmy.worldThat’s a brutally discriminatory name these days. They prefer the term London41
lli10 feddit.uk3Hide 3 repliesAlways interesting to see people mention my hometown of removedshire online. I live in South Bummersly these days though.28
EEcho Dot replyfeddit.ukI can picture it. It's definitely a Southern town, no northern industrial city. I bet it has 12 pubs around a village green.2
ÐÐ Greıt Þu̇mpkin lemm.ee12Hide 12 repliesMeanwhile the Americans have the British names but pronounce it completely different because of the fucking bostoners15
ddroans replylemmy.world7Hide 7 repliesDon't place the blame on us. The British have changed their dialect like twelve times since we were their colony.20
EEcho Dot replyfeddit.uk1Hide 1 replyWell that's because you unsubscribed from the language patches, made your own fork and then did nothing with it.8
TAG replylemmy.worldAs an American who lived in Worcester, MA for a number of years: Wuster or Wustah2
DDragonTypeWyvern replyliterature.cafe2Hide 2 repliesAlso because the British have proven themselves incapable of taking care of the language, as proven every day by cockneys.8
XXIIIesq replylemmy.world1Hide 1 replyThe whole point of cockney is that you can tell who is and isn't a local.1
EEmoDuck replysh.itjust.worksI was slightly disappointed when I learned that 4chan wasn't a play on "fortune"1
slst lemmy.blahaj.zone2Hide 2 repliesFrench-sounding places: Vincennes-sur-l'oisement Saint-martin-des-Vosges Mathildeville Miquelin-les-prés7
xxx3rawr replysh.itjust.works1Hide 1 replyBritish-sounding places: Shitterton Scratchy Bottom Cockplay Penistone Gay Street, West Sussex Oh wait these are all real British places12
Obi replysopuli.xyzDon'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/3
DDagwood222 lemm.ee2Hide 2 repliesAmericans who pronounce 'Dubois' as DEW-boyse and DU-bwah depending on personal preference.5
CCADmonkey replylemmy.world1Hide 1 replyWe just do that. Miami, FL is pronounced differently than Miami, OK.2
DDagwood222 replylemm.eeTIL. Sure we could find other examples. edit = Someone elese did 'Arkansas' and 'Kansas.'2
sspirinolas lemmy.worldPortugal: Fodarelho da Raia Cona-da-Velha Covide (this one actually exists) Pintelhos Estudasses5
GreasyTengu sh.itjust.worksNewfoundland names be like: Come by Chance Blow me Down Conception bay Dildo3
RVGamer06 sh.itjust.worksItaly: Sborate sul Minchio Pornassio(this one actually exists) EDIT: formatting1
American city names: New-removedshire-Upon-My-Ass
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.
Then can you explain where, exactly, they're carrying those wayward sons?
I dunno, but there'll be peace when they are done.
It's easy when they're just dust in the wind
There is a Kansa tribe. No need to erase natives over interstate bullshit.
Didnt know, just kinda assumed due to how often states either split or names get recycled.
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.
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.
I assure you we have done plenty with that fork…
How do you pronounce Worcester?
Woster for short
As an American who lived in Worcester, MA for a number of years: Wuster or Wustah
Askin' the REAL questions!
Worcher
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.
And by local they mean on the street by street level.
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.
I was slightly disappointed when I learned that 4chan wasn't a play on "fortune"
French-sounding places:
Vincennes-sur-l'oisement
Saint-martin-des-Vosges
Mathildeville
Miquelin-les-prés
British-sounding places:
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/
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.'
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
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