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[–] veganes_hack@feddit.org 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

absolutely not excusing this soulless garbage, but technically the "coom" pronounciation is the more correct one, compared to what i assume would usually be "cum" (not an english native, but took latin in school)

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, I grew up speaking a language that pronounces Latin closer to Italian than to English too (:

This particular thing is actually doubly funny to me, whose first practical professional program was one that took German text with English words mixed in and used regex to transform the English terms into nonsense words that would get pronounced right by the German-only text-to-speech system. That was 2002.