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[–] [email protected] 73 points 11 months ago (14 children)
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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Because the words are from two different languages?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

By jove, there the whole time!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Is that pronounced Jove like dove or Jove like hoes?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Single hot femalés in your area!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I like my fe-mah-lays like I like my ta-mah-lays. Steaming hot and wrapped in corn husks!

Right?!? Guys?!?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can just say Midwestern.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Now you wait for the corn of your dreams.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear, ended up on CornHub instead

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A good girl in a straw hat with her arms out in a corn field.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That is a scarecrow.

Edit:

spoiler, context

I just went back to the song and watched it again, which turned into a Bo Burnham marathon. He is absolutely amazing!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

~~Except it's not even a borrowed word. It's still a Spanish word.~~ nope, I was wrong.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Oh? My bad, thanks for the correction! 🙏

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You put the em-PHA-sis on the wrong syl-LAB-le

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Or you butcher accents. Like jalapeno.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You just like causing cha-os.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

That would mean "male" is pronounced "molly."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Only if you pronounce "molly" as "marley"!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

I am just the right amount of high for this one. I can coast on this tweet for a solid 20 minute think sesh.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Why can’t ‘tamales’ just be pronounced like “ta-males”?

Otherwise we’ll have to start pronouncing ‘males’ like “mall-ehs”.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

how very Canadian, eh?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

And why aren't Batman and Goodman pronounced the same.

I think it should be Bat-mun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

A better question: How many folks thought they misspelled the second "females"?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I'm going to start pronouncing them both the same

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

how naming a gastro strip club Females and Tamales?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Operate out of an old train car. Dolly's Females and Tamales Trolley.

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