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Careful there, you might be committing a faux pas. I prefer to use ad hoc and sui generis Latin phrases to make myself seem more intelligent than I really am.
by checkyoursudo 4y ago
Careful there, you might be committing a faux pas.
I prefer to use ad hoc and sui generis Latin phrases to make myself seem more intelligent than I really am.
- bombcar 4y agoI love when French words are borrowed and repronounced so you end up with Grand Prix being "Grand Pricks" instead of "Gran pree".
- xen2xen1 4y agoYou would so, so totally love how the residents of Versailles, Indiana, US, pronounce their town's name. I'm very 'Merican and it makes me want to bang my head into to a wall.
- bombcar 4y agoA number of city names become shibboleths themselves - things like Spokane being pronounced "spow cane" instead of being spoken as spokan. Of course if you go back far enough, even the original place names of many places are simply "bastardized" versions of the original. It's how Latin becomes Italian over time.