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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago

What is a word you realized you were pronouncing wrong until you heard someone else say it?

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What is a word you realized you were pronouncing wrong until you heard someone else say it?

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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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    So many, but the funniest has been “meme” (English is not my first language). My online friends who are English speakers were eternally amused by it, sadly my audhd brain has forgotten how I pronounced it.

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      my audhd brain has forgotten how I pronounced it.

      Maybe “mehmeh” or “meemee”?

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        I used to go meh meh

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      Me me

      • NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net
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        Something like this probably.:D

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      My first encounter with it was from the Selfish Gene, where Dawkins describes it as a “mind version of a gene”, so he thought meme sounded fine. Hearing Maymay was bonkers to me.

    • alexandra_kollontai [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      I had a similar thing where I learned the pronunciation of meme and then proceeded to say the name of Pepe the Frog in the same way, like “peep”. I still do this, but I’ve been informed it’s wrong.

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