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Mispronunciation is racist

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  • George KG George K

    @Axtremus said in Mispronunciation is racist:

    doucehey

    "Douce Hey?"

    Wouldn't "Hey, Douce" be more appropriate?

    If there are two of them ("douce") which one are you addressing?

    Are typos racist? Particularly if they haven't been proofread?

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    Axtremus
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    #10

    @George-K said in Mispronunciation is racist:

    @Axtremus said in Mispronunciation is racist:

    doucehey

    "Douce Hey?"

    Wouldn't "Hey, Douce" be more appropriate?

    If there are two of them ("douce") which one are you addressing?

    Are typos racist? Particularly if they haven't been proofread?

    Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
    I have since corrected the typo.

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      xenon
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      #11

      It's doubly interesting because in India you'd get very different pronunciations of Kamala depending on if you're in North or South India.

      Like the word Karma - in old sanskrit you pronounce the "a" at the end, but in North India (that includes big cities like Dehli and Bombay), they pronounce the work "Karm". Stopping on the m. (As in "karm is a bitch" is how you would say it, if that phrase was in a Bollywood movie)

      In my family extended family I have a "Kamala", spelled "Kamal" pronounced nothing like the correctors on the CNN segments.

      Also here's super-racist Modi butchering President Doland Trump's name:

      Link to video

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        George K
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        "Doland."

        It could happen, LOL.

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        • George KG George K

          @Axtremus said in Mispronunciation is racist:

          doucehey

          "Douce Hey?"

          Wouldn't "Hey, Douce" be more appropriate?

          If there are two of them ("douce") which one are you addressing?

          Are typos racist? Particularly if they haven't been proofread?

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          #13

          @George-K said in Mispronunciation is racist:

          @Axtremus said in Mispronunciation is racist:

          doucehey

          "Douce Hey?"

          Wouldn't "Hey, Douce" be more appropriate?

          If there are two of them ("douce") which one are you addressing?

          Are typos racist? Particularly if they haven't been proofread?

          I think in this case the proper spelling would be douche. As in bag.

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            89th
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            @George-K that video was great....love the twist at the end of Biden butchering Kamala's name even worse. LOVE IT

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              I feel bad for all those cnn people, they were so obviously hurt by the mispronunciation.

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              • 89th8 Offline
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                89th
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                Can you imagine going around life being so easily offended?

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                  Horace
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                  They're not that easily offended though. They're just eager for the opportunity to catch an enemy in the act of being offensive, so they can set the shaming machinery against them.

                  Education is extremely important.

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                    89th
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                    #18

                    Link to video

                    Not the first time I’ve posted this, and won’t be the last. 😂

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                    • MikM Away
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                      Mik
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                      Idiocracy.

                      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                      • MikM Away
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                        Mik
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                        89th's video is brilliant. Love it.

                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                          89th
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                          I think about the line “you’re offended...so what, nothing happens!” ALL the time.

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                          • 89th8 89th

                            Link to video

                            Not the first time I’ve posted this, and won’t be the last. 😂

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                            @89th said in Mispronunciation is racist:

                            Link to video

                            Not the first time I’ve posted this, and won’t be the last. 😂

                            That guy's hilarious. Also: he slayed on Rock Quiz. Every time.

                            Please love yourself.

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