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minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 days agoAs a non-French speaker, I completely agree with you. If I use a borrowed word, I do my best to pronounce it like a native speaker would.
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 days agoAs a colonizer, I consider it my duty to butcher borrowed/foreign words. You should hear me say bolognese.
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-25 days agoBuh-LOG-nees. It’s an Italian sauce. Actually pronounced like bolonays
As a non-French speaker, I completely agree with you. If I use a borrowed word, I do my best to pronounce it like a native speaker would.
As a colonizer, I consider it my duty to butcher borrowed/foreign words. You should hear me say bolognese.
Baloneys?
Buh-LOG-nees.
It’s an Italian sauce. Actually pronounced like bolonays
Ouch.