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[-] teft@startrek.website 73 points 9 months ago
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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 53 points 9 months ago

Because the words are from two different languages?

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[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 39 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

By jove, there the whole time!

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Is that pronounced Jove like dove or Jove like hoes?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago
[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

So it's pronounced like how a Boston person would say hover?

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[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

Single hot femalés in your area!

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 27 points 9 months ago

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

Right?!? Guys?!?

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 24 points 9 months ago

You can just say Midwestern.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago

Now you wait for the corn of your dreams.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Instructions unclear, ended up on CornHub instead

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago
[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

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

[-] malijaffri@feddit.ch 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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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[-] Moneo@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] agnomeunknown@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Oh? My bad, thanks for the correction! 🙏

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[-] sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 21 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] kambusha@feddit.ch 9 points 9 months ago

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

[-] sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Or you butcher accents. Like jalapeno.

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 5 points 9 months ago
[-] sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

You just like causing cha-os.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago
[-] trent@ttrpg.network 13 points 9 months ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 9 months ago

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

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[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 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.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 9 months ago

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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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

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

[-] allroy@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

how very Canadian, eh?

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 7 points 9 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).

[-] Stretch2m@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

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

I think it should be Bat-mun.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

I'm going to start pronouncing them both the same

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

how naming a gastro strip club Females and Tamales?

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