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It's truly a shame (startrek.website)
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[-] teft@startrek.website 73 points 11 months ago

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago

Because the words are from two different languages?

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[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 39 points 11 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 11 months ago

By jove, there the whole time!

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Is that pronounced Jove like dove or Jove like hoes?

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[-] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

Single hot femalés in your area!

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 27 points 11 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 23 points 11 months ago

You can just say Midwestern.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

Midwestern.

Now what?

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 8 points 11 months ago

Now you wait for the corn of your dreams.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Instructions unclear, ended up on CornHub instead

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Guys, it's real:

https://cornhub.website/

It's SFW

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

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

[-] malijaffri@feddit.ch 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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!

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

I'm hoping my Southern charm offsets all these rapey vibes I'm putting out

[-] Moneo@lemmy.world 23 points 11 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.

[-] sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 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 11 months ago

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

[-] sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Or you butcher accents. Like jalapeno.

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 5 points 11 months ago

I love me a good ch-asm

[-] sirxdaemon@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

You just like causing cha-os.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Norm?

[-] trent@ttrpg.network 13 points 11 months ago

Reminds me of this poem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 11 months ago

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

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I'm a nice little molly

[-] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Really more like mall-a (like the letter a, not “ah”).

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[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 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 11 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

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Tamales are a type of food. (Pronounced like Tom-all-ays)

So the joke is making you read "females" (fee-males) like Fem-all-ays

[-] SaddieTheMad@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Tah-MAH-lehs would be more accurate. 'Females', read as in Spanish, would be feh-MAH-lehs.

It's easy, you read Spanish as if every vowel had that 'h'. Vowels do not change their sound.

That's a horrible explanation, right? Here. That's how you always pronounce the vowels.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 6 points 11 months ago

how very Canadian, eh?

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 7 points 11 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 11 months ago

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

I think it should be Bat-mun.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

I'm going to start pronouncing them both the same

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

how naming a gastro strip club Females and Tamales?

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Operate out of an old train car. Dolly's Females and Tamales Trolley.

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