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I had to read this addition multiple times to understand it because as a vaguely Southern person y'all is used as both singular and plural second person. That said, you do have "all y'all" so it still sorta applies?
#that first bit tho#everyone in the South uses y'all not just the bigots#granted y'xll is a great way to fry the brain of a southerner#how the fuck do you even pronounce that#linguistics
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maffhew who refuses to say runebergin torttu because he knows hes gonna butcher it so bad he might be kicked out of the country the second he tries and staunchly avoids that by going "the one dessert that barky is going to have to explain 😃"
sasha who gets faced with the most generic description of everything hes ever eaten in his life so far because of maffhew and going "???... oh you mean runebergin torttu!"
"he did good he liked the food and he likes the finland so far so its good" sasha says with so much pride now that all the anxiety has left his system that his husband teammate is enjoying his country and doesnt hate it
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the smile of a man who knowlingly doomed his husband and said husband using all his brain power to context clues his way to whatever the fuck he just got asked that his brain is running hotter than a mid 2012 macbook air thats somehow still alive in the year of the lord 2024 but girl does she chug along shes louder than a fighter jet
#matthew tkachuk#aleksander barkov#florida panthers#2425#the famous vanha kauppahalli date™#we know how bad he is at pronouncing words not in english he does not want to fuck up his husbands language in front of him#(the nhl stars try to speak german video has entered the chat)#different attitudes here lmao#“he did good” mate he was... eating food... what... what is there to praise here..?#i shivered sweet mary and joseph sasha this is how you praise maffhew? yeah id be an annoying little shit about it too#whatever they have. unexplainable. i wont even bother#im glad to see pie and cake are still very confusing for esol#somehow ive had the conversation with several different people in my lifetime and realised even i dont know what the fuck it is#in the sense that when i translate pastries into english for my american friends i just pause and go#wait... i think this is a pie... but its called a tart in spanish but its also kind of a cake? and- [windows reboot sound]#ive had to do this with pastafrola and im like please just eat it dont make me explain im gonna cry if i do#I DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS IN AN ENGLISH CONTEXT BECAUSE IT DOESNT EXIST IN AN ENGLISH CONTEXT TO ME JUST EAT IT#“so whats the difference between a torta and a tarta and isnt a tarta kinda like a pie-” “stop asking questions you dont want answers to”#you have no idea how upset i get trying to explain#im glad sasha at least protrays a little of that frustration by going “i dont know english word” girl SAME
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priests are kinda weird because who tf says "you" like "husband and wife" smh
#how do i even tag this#fuck it#usual tags#ftm#transgender#trans#lgbtq#trans man#transmasc#queer#trans memes#ftm memes#queer memes#“i now pronounce you husband and wife”#lol ok weirdo
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just learnt to differentiate Chiron and Charon in pjo and am now being rained down with praetoria principalis probatio Penthesilea Periclymenus in HoO. Gonna cry myself to sleep coz wtf
#how the fuck do u even pronounce them#HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE LAISTRYGONIANS#pjo#heroes of olympus#percy jackson#elaine blogs books#elaine blogs
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wait crap i misread 'utmv" as "utdr" aaaaaaaa
Swatch and Seam are from Deltarune.
Uhhhhhhh 3rd times the charm draw Bowser /j
Could you draw Grilby maybe?
Lmfao this is so fucking funny- But I'll just draw already cuz you suffered too much 💔
I tried so hard not to accidentally draw Suco...
#doodle requests#kv asks#kv art#undertale#grillby#grillby undertale#I can't fucking write his name why is he like that#how do you even pronounce girllbe
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you ever realize you never properly learned how to say a character's name, so by the time you finally HEAR it, you have no idea who they're talking about? cause I feel like I keep doing this and it's very confusing to keep being corrected like that
#I have this habit of only reading the first few letters and then completely skimming over the rest of a name#which leads me to just. totally making it up#ko-she-key (koschei from doctor who) and tin-tall-gia (tintaglia from the rain wild chronicles) are my favorite names that I've fucked up#the funniest part is I only sometimes chose to recognize the mistake and fix it#I do not think those two will ever be pronounced correctly. I just. can't. that's who they are to me#plus soz but you're a liar if you're gonna tell me the way I say “ko-she-key” isn't an infinitely more fun way to pronounce it#even if it is... y'know... just not even the same name FFVJVFJ#I'm not tagging either media cause I mean whatever if you find it good for you but I NEEDED to show off how egregious those examples are#I'm being so fucking serious when I said I SKIM over these names. I didn't even know how to spell them I had to look it up#in fact I was so shocked about tintaglia I had to rewrite hers three separate times#I have never in my life paid any closer attention to these names and after this I will continue not doing so#they are “kosheci-said-with-a-hard-c-for-some-reason” and “tintalgia” to me thank you and goodnight#—:*after these messages we'll be righttttt back*:—
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sorry i do think that if you are a youtuber who speaks in depth on japanese pop culture and web media et cetera you should figure out how to pronounce names and places and words correctly
#if you're speaking to me about a mangaka or a celebrity and you cant even bother to pronounce their name correctly i dont care anymore tbh#like your words have substantially less merit to me if you can't have the basic decency to figure out how to pronounce a name.#and i dont want any of that quirky bullshit they do where they edit in a black screen w text thats like oops butchered this pronunciation!#like omgggg fuck offff im so serious. so annoying to me without fail
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the thing abt toothless and hiccup is that toothless is just as obsessed with hiccup as hiccup is with toothless. if their roles were reversed toothless would also have drawings of hiccup above his bed.
#sorry thinking abr httyd is one of the only things keeping me sane at work#im imagining a body swap where the lesson is to teach the other to be happy as who they are but theyre like wtf. this is awesome.#hiccup: FUCK yes im a DRAGON / toothless: opposable thumbs!!!!!!!!#and they are so obsessed with each other they learned each others language (a little shit bc they cant pronounce it in their original#tongues but they got the spirit) so thats fine. the only problem is maneuvering the body but even that eventually evens out.#then they have some antagonist stop by idk and they have to imitate each other and they are UNCANNILY GOOD AT IT.#the only problem is the guy disrespects hiccup* and while hiccup wants toothless to negotiate toothless is like. fuck this *attacks*#hiccup: toothless! you know thats not how we do things!#toothless: i cant translate perfectly + he was disrespecting us + it didnt even hurt him bc your body is so short and scrawny#hiccup: hey.. i know but hey..#anyways. sane thoughts.
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okay i know i said yeseo is dense but manages to make it endearing. but over 130 chapters in with him still being this like...not even dense really its more like he's refusing to learn or change his biased preconceptions about cedric, now im starting to wanna strangle him a bit.
#like. dude. how much linger are you gonna refuse to examine everything he's doing for you ans how he cares for you#sure you're friends now but this is like. insane how much you just assume mean intent from him#AND LIKE. YOU CAN ASSUME GOOD INTENT FROM HIS MOTHER JUST FINE??? AND THEYRE SUPER SIMILAR#hes just super autistic can you please be a bit more receptive towards his emotionsss#and like. its not that yeseo is Unkind to cedric but he does not at ALL realize just how unfavorably biased he is towards him#and it sucks sooooo bad#not that cedric is entirely blameless he needs to control his temper and do away w at least a bit of his pride#(cough stubbornness)#but like. come ON yeseo#i know you have a mental divide between you and these people bc youre like 'im in a book and they actuallynlive in this world'#but it is so extremely pronounced with cedric#he can treat everyone else as a person instead of a character EXCEPT cedric#even worse is that he doesnt even treat him as a Character bc good characters are non-static. they grow and change#he treats cedric like he is completely static and will always be exactly the way he is in the book and it drives me fucking insaneee#it huuurts like. its not even funny to me at this point. yeseo can you please view him as his own person for 2 secondsss#EDIT: IM STILL UPSET LIKE. YESEO. HOW DO YOU HEAR CEDRIC LEGIT GO 'as you wish' AND NOT GET IT#YOU RECOGNIZE EVERY REFERENCE THE AUTHOR MADE SO FAR BUT NOT THAT ONE??? BE SERIOUS
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my worst enemy are catalan words that end in -ny. i simply cannot seem to properly pronounce them i'm afraid :(
#i just heard out loud how you are supposed to pronounce 'fortuny'#guess who was pronouncing it wrong#i get that it's supposed to sound similar to an ñ#but even though my mouth just cannot seem to be able to make that sound#my true mortal enemy is this festivity they do in my dad's hometown... i don't even know how to write the name down wait#mig any#<- okay so that. how the fuck do you pronounce that#my family and i really struggle. we say something like 'michan' and sometimes 'michani'. it really makes us fight for our lives
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For anyone keeping track (no one), I have started watching the first Avengers film (MCU not the 60s TV show) but only while eating lunch so it's gonna take a while. So far Nick Fury has been assembling the Avengers (the film was initially released in the UK as Avengers Assemble - because of that 60s TV show - but it's not called that on D+ so I'm calling it what the Americans called it, just FYI) even though there's not yet anything for them to avenge as That Suit Guy (j/k I know his name too!!) isn't dead yet, and now they're on THE FUCKING VALIANT FROM DR WHO and I assume we're gonna continue assembling for a while as they're not all there yet.
MEANWHILE Loki (who is neither an alligator nor a woman in this???) is in a SECRET UNDERGROUND LAIR with a bunch of his stans who are... idk something technobabble that involves irridium and anti-protons. He is there looking for the tesseract on behalf of ???? who I know will be revealed 47 films from now as... no, wait, it wasn't, was it? That was just announced on a website or something? So it could be LITERALLY ANYONE. The Avengers (in-progress) also seem to be after that thing, but I have already forgotten why everyone is wanting it, assuming it was mentioned (it probably was).
Thor hasn't shown up yet, but Arrows Hawkeye is working as a Loki Stan and there's Steve Rogers and THE HULK and The Only Woman One, whose power is that she's a Cold War assassin (??) and I think this one is the film where she gets called a cunt (!) and honestly I am not sure which of the men she's getting officially shipped with, I think Arrows Hawkeye though? Fairly sure, as the alternative is that a man and a woman like each other as people but not in a lusty way, which would never happen obviously. (Hey I may ship mostly het* pairings but I don't always like it!)
Based on the Valiant (if u don't know who she is get da hell out of here!) I am guessing that the film ends with Loki dying in Thor's arms romantically but then I remembered that I know it can't because one of Loki got kidnapped from... either the end of this film or the start of the next one or POSSIBLY just from a later film's time-travel bit (???) but like... maybe they've edited this film secretly and I was right after all? But nobody else has watched it on Disney + recently so nobody knows yet? IT COULD HAPPEN.
Not sure what to make of this film so far, a lot's been going on yet also not much has been going on, and the one I like best so far (Suit Guy) is gonna die (NOT EVEN IN THOR'S ARMS ROMANTICALLY) and god Iron Man really hasn't aged well now that we have that one tech billionaire being a twat in public all the time to remind us what such people tend to be like. WHERE IS THOR????
*I say het but everyone in everything is bisexual, I know this because I thought of it and announced it on tumblr and will now say "I don't make the rules" to make it an objective FACT. I don't make the rules!!!
#the avengers (mcu edition not the 60s one)#(though if u close one eye and tilt ur head the black widow looks a wee bit like emma peel maybe?)#i like to think the lair of loki stans exists after this to post angrily on social media about how actually he did nothing wrong etc etc#let me know if loki's just working from a subway station that's still in use in this that'd be hilarious he'd be so annoyed by it all#torn on the tortured-by-thanos issue so far he does look messy but he might just have the flu and didn't want to back out#a lot of people are depending on him to jumpstart a movie superhero franchise he can't just take the day off can he#if loki took care of himself thor would be LITERALLY UNEMPLOYED how could he? how could YOU?#(the 'god of thunder' thing isn't a job he doesn't get paid for it so it's just a hobby)#(he doesn't even monetise that hobby! you think iron man would give you storms for free? EXACTLY. he'd have a patreon AT LEAST)#(“if you enjoyed this torrential rain pls tip me on ko-fi which is not pronounced like you think it is because it's a really BAD pun”)#and whatever the fuck my loki character tag was#like i said i really do need to categorise my lokis more it's been bothering me for a while#reminder: i am here because they cast a woman in a previously-male role and SHE'S NOT EVEN IN THIS FILM. OR ANY OF THEM. D:#don't think the alligator's gonna turn up here either :( :( :(#otherwise it's just kind of fascinating what this film assumes i do and don't know about these characters#nick fury's a goth right?#mcu tag
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enpen / eyepen devoured 💀 enhypen who
like who is enhypen ? i only know
#out of all the kpop group names#this is one of the easiest to pronounce 😭#it is spelled. like how you pronounce it istg#HELP AND “your english is better than my korean”#GIRLYPOP WTF 😭#RESPECTFULLY YOU CANT EVEN SAY THEIR GROUP NAME GTFO#it’s giving “btw your english is phenomenal”#american interviewers<<<<<#the only thing they have to do is google the FUCKING PERSON#or the FUCKING GROUP NAME#HOW DO YOU SCREW UP THAT BADLY 😭#also if you’re confused just look up “enhypen gma interview”#or maybe you should look up enpen’s gma interview 🤠#☆゚elena’s rambles
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Also hot take but making fun of and mocking people for not knowing the Correct Pronunciation of something --- regardless of how "easy" it should be, or what language it's from/commonly used in, or if it 'follows the rules', etc. --- is uhhhh shitty!
#imo it's dicey to even do it as a lighthearted joke if it's not a specific person you have a specific relationship with#but so many people get genuinely condescending and shit about it and like. y'all are jerks :)#and to be clear I'm not talking about situations where someone is just being fucking racist and refusing to actually try to pronounce#someone's name right#im talking about honest and innocent not knowing how something is pronounced/not realizing they're saying it wrong/etc
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hey guys. whouffaldi. what the fuck
#no exclamation mark. no question mark. I need you to hear my voice. feel how deadpan this is#like what are we gonna start calling tenrose “wholfnant” or smth#LMAO ninerose could be wholfeston#or just wholf! xD#I mean it's so funny and technically I guess I get it... but why#why would you do this#it took me so long to figure out why the fuck it was called that#or what it even WAS#whouffle is bad-a-bloody enough#but whouffaldi?#somehow even more confusing#I genuinely do not know how to pronounce either of these#also think it's extra funny bc it seems so random who gets the weird fucked up ship names and who doesn't#just stick to twleveclara and elevenclara you psychos LOL#twelveclara#whouffaldi#doctor who#dear god hold on I forgot about... whatever the hell the master and doctor are called. I can't remember how to spell it at ALL. guys.
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when you’re so shit at Spanish that it literally doesn’t even occur to you how to pronounce this word until looking at the wiki 👍🏼
#though the most I’m familiar with the word when it comes to starting a car [insert all the times ive heard family say they have to#'arrancar el carro']. and like I know nothing about cars so bare with me in the way I’m gonna explain this but#when the engine won’t start so you open the hood and connect wires from the car that won’t start to one that works fine#anyways also very stupid of me considering I HAVE heard the term espada in terms of this series before#now I’m curious how arrancar is gonna be pronounced once I get that far#bc I was trying to guess and in my head I kept going Aron-kur(?)#but like knowing how 2000s anime pronounce jp works I wonder if they’ll butcher esp one too#are they gonna say ah-rahn-kar properly? cmon there’s a half Mexican guy in the series you can do this#<-(Falsely optimistic)#BUT ALSO IN MY DEFENSE i had never actually heard the word sword (espada) irl growing up#but my understanding of spanish is all sorts of fucked up tbh#like the first time i had champurrado i freaked out wtf i was getting this thick chocolate drink and not a hard giant cookie (champurrada)#my parents never said chancla they said chancleta#i had no idea a chicote was a whip until i looked it up later in life. i thought it was a belt which just happened to be made of leather..#saying as someone whos parents didnt threaten them with a belt or sandals but A FUCKING WHIP. APPARENTLY.#papote instead of pajilla (later found out i was mispronouncing even that my whole life bc its actually pOpote)#and pelo colocho instead of chino are the other 2 big commonly spoken differences
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Apparently my brain really hates when names have A, U, and R in them, because without fail, every time I go to type Arthur my brain wants to spell it “Aurthur” or perhaps “Aurthr” and every time I go to type Marius my brain wants to type “Mauris” or maybe “Maurius” or maybe “Maurias” its unclear because I *usually* notice my mistake by the end because it’s clear to me those ending are wrong. Brain just really wants “AUR” together.
#if you see me misspell those names. that’s why#also im american so i default to pronouncing marius— hang on let me look up some IPA symbols#i pronounce is with this vowel ‘ɑ’ which is the open back unrounded vowel#where as they seem to pronounce it with the ‘e’ symbol which is an english (or at least am english) long a sound.#they say it like the name mary. like ‘marry us’#reasons english needs either more vowel symbols or accent marks#also i am aware the ipa vowels are fucked up but its still the best ive got because even in the same language there are accents and-#dialects and that makes examples hard. i also learned recently that british and australian english has actual long an short vowels.#i knew american english didnt have strut (inverted v) but i didnt know- i mean i kinda did because i had noticed it but like not fully-#understood it. anyway if youve read this far you should go watch dr geoff lindsey on youtube hes great#to be clear we have ‘long’ and ‘short’ vowel sounds in am english. but ‘long’ and ‘short’ are just names. the actual length that we say-#them is apparently basically the same. at least when compared with br and au english.#dr geoff lindsey *just* published a video about this. re: how br and au eng speakers say ‘two o’clock’ and ‘four o’clock’ as significantly-#different lengths. while am english speakers say them the same length. he also touches on a bunch of other interesting stuff#im not gonna fandom tag this i guess#i think its funny though that its arthur and marius since they are both voiced by the same person#oh also i think all IPA symbols should have special names like eng. schwa. and strut. rather than having to be called shit like ‘open back-#unrounded vowel.’ although i do realize that theres a fuck tonne of ipa symbols. i also think each of the names should have the sound it-#represents in it.#im autistic about pronunciation somehow. arent i supposed to be in the… *other* sciences. how did this happen?
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