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May 26, 2021 2:17 AM
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MarkySpaceMagnet
King's English, American English, or Australian English?
azuureth
Get a load off? Like in jerk off?
Onlyhereforthelaughs
Me when The Beast gets one answer wrong, but I knew it.
buttdestroyer
Or not understanding a common-ish word that they have never learned because it has several synonyms.
AllSystemsNominal
I wish. I speak like... 2.1 languages
sileeds
Don't apologise my friend I know what your trying to say and frankly you speak English better than some native speaking people I know. ??
FistingBabyYoda
Man I speak English yet I can barely speak English. Why you have to diss me like this?
yomorider
Supercalifragilistic
tundrasaurus
are we to assume the english speaker is unilingual?
mormacil
Most native English speakers are
fiddlewheelx
Bah, as if you'd be able to pronounce Høyesterettsjustitiarius.
Pontation
Get a load of this guy - name of your sex tape
Nathanyel
Almost every day I hear an English word that I've only seen written before, and I'm dumbfounded. E.g. privacy is related to private, right?/
Nathanyel
/ So, one non-native speaker could think it's pronounced like pry-wah-see. But nooo, it's prr-wassi
Shovi
I think it's pronounced both ways.
Feralkyn
Yes, American vs British English
Feralkyn
V, not w, in English. But British and American English pronounce it differently. American English pronounces it with a long "i," as with
Feralkyn
"private"--like "pry-vah-see." Brits pronounce it with a short "i," as in, "prih-vah-see."
Hookersandblackjack
SonderingStrike
2henever I see someone struggling with English, I try to reassure them. I definitely do not speak their language, do mistakes are allowed.
woozle
clintwestwud
Language is the only think I’m interested in. I’m from southern Louisiana and speak 5 including ASL but I’m working hard at Russian now!
clintwestwud
To me learning a language is like finding a whole new world. It’s just fun. I hope to get to 10 before I die but who knows.
tinybartender
Like "Lingers in the Bathroom" has any room to talk.
Lyantes
When a guy walks into the sperm donation center...
thebomby
Gegenstandsentwendungstechniker. Thief.
IssacCox
I roast my friend who is a non native speaker when he mispronounces stuff and he roasts me when I mispronounce stuff in his language.
IssacCox
The bullying makes both of us better speakers more quickly.
CanadianHoneybadger
Fucking captain Sobel
CanadianHoneybadger
(kidding, Schwimmer's a decent fellow, just wanted to see who's catch the reference)
ThaneofGlamis
“Major Horton told you to cut that man’s fence?”
LisaFromOZ
At my workplace very few people have english as their first language, yet those who ONLY speak english seem to be the worst with it ?♀️
Feralkyn
A lot of native English-speaking countries have regions with -exceedingly- poor educational systems. These are the places that churn out-
Feralkyn
folks who've only learned language through what they hear, and do things like mixing up their/there or writing "would of"
LisaFromOZ
Yes! That’s exactly what I’ve seen, my SUPERVISOR keeps sending emails with ‘may of seen’ and things like that, oh my god it’s torture.
Feralkyn
Jesus Christ that is awful and I'm sorry
Lostradefaog
Most people are say that...
Hount
Funny. As I tend to recognize native English speakers from then/than, their/they're and other similar mistakes.
Fubb1ck
Or "would of" instead of would've
umibozusan
it’s/its, hangar/hanger, ‘s for plurals... but if a non native mispronounces tear (rip) as in tears of joy, they cannot understand them!
Goblor
Non native here, I honestly have to try to not correct the wrong "there, their, they're" or "you're, yours" against natives. feel mean.
Ranos17
Exactly this
nonCanadianGoose
Depends on what language the word they mispronounced was in
jaakkopaakkonen
Don't speak 6 languages, but sometimes the words you need to use just never came up in the movies you've watched and you only know spelling
Feralkyn
I'm a native English speaker and it took me until my teenage years to find out that "misled" is not pronounced "My-seld"
NachoPete
HaveGinWillBabble
Dung-ar
Spiderbubble
It's funny but you can tell the "kids' voices" are just her voice layered and raised to chipmunk levels.
IReallyJustWannaStreamOnTwitch
https://i.giphy.com/media/nVXzt7FSJlX7W/giphy.webp
possumstew
Is she teaching chipmunks ?
IncognitoPanda
They sound so cute though haha
abeyoye
It's a joke for a local tik tok kind of challenge. There are a bunch of these moronic videos.
FookinPrawns
Gologoloo!
IronicDancing
These must me taking the piss, right?
abeyoye
Yes. Fake tik tok videos.
sphericalworld
Correct. Tiktok crap.
zeros000
Unfortunately not :( there are many videos like this
IronicDancing
Guess I can believe that. There's plenty of "martial arts instructors" teaching people how to fight when they know they have no idea 1/2
IronicDancing
what they're talking about, why WOULDN'T people do the same with language? 2/2
zeros000
Yep :(
AmazinglyCoolNameHere
Well the comment above you says it's like some tik tok joke video, so I hope so
Youhavinagiraffe
I taught English in Cambodia and the local teachers would constantly overrule me on pronunciation of words in my own damn language
GodsWorkSon
Solid effort.
syrick
It's fake
abraxasfury
What a cunning linguist
BananaGiraffeStar
Cunnilinguist aka porn star
YourAuntThatGrabsYourAssWhenDrunk
?
FentuckyCriedKhicken
I'm English as a second language. I cannot pronounce the word "Worcestershire"
dogwithahumanface
sauce?
Bestiarium
Don't worry, nobody can
ministerm
The one that officially the least people can pronounce is "Frome"
bochikiniki
Only the chosen one can
Feralkyn
Mostly because it's pronounced "wrong" for the spelling. They just casually dump an entire syllable. It LOOKS like it should be (with the
Feralkyn
appropriate phonetics) "wor-shester-shire" but for some reason they dump the "es" in the middle so it becomes "wor-ster-shir" (or sometimes
Feralkyn
"wor-shest-ir")
Spiderbubble
I'm gonna call it wor-shester-shire sauce because that's what it's written as, dammit. Also it's GIF not JIF.
Feralkyn
Ah, yes, for the hard "g" in "graphics"
MarkReeves3000
Warwickshire built their county cricket ground in Worcestershire. Makes no sense, but that’s what they did. (Pronounced WUST-er-shear.)
JanusLeeJones
Now why would you spell it like that? Is wust pronounced like crust, bust, lust, dust, etc?
JupiterMiningCorpRep
Yes, Wor is the shortened name of the tribe that found the village, cestor is the latin for town and shire is the middle english for county
JupiterMiningCorpRep
So Worcestershire is the County around the city founded by the Wor, or along those lines.
JupiterMiningCorpRep
https://youtu.be/uYNzqgU7na4
usernamenamesolongifyoutagmeinyourcommentyouwonthavemuchspace
"wooster sheer" in it's native midland English.
nekuth
Personally,more "woosh-ta-ah-shar" but I'm Yorkshire, we have Henderson's
nekuth
I also call Hathersage "have-a-sausage" ...cuz reasons....
usernamenamesolongifyoutagmeinyourcommentyouwonthavemuchspace
It's a proper example of english madness. Cester {Latin] means a roman town (pronounced with a soft c, ie an S)
usernamenamesolongifyoutagmeinyourcommentyouwonthavemuchspace
Wor [Germanic] is shortened from the Anglo Saxon tribe that took over the town (orginally the Weorgoran - people of the winding river)
usernamenamesolongifyoutagmeinyourcommentyouwonthavemuchspace
And shire is the Old English [Germanic] word scír adapted for French speaking Norman rulers.
DamnumAbsqueInjuria
I can’t think of a twenty letter word off the top of my head. Maybe someone will come by to tell me one and let me know what an idiot I am.
OfficerCrabtree
Cracks knuckles: Pneomonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. You’re welcome...
ActionJohnnie
Get a load of this guy…
Kostkami
Not an idiot, probably just english.
uthminsta
Decompartmentalizing.
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sverebom
Rhabarberbarbarababarenbartbabierbierbar
manulofdoom
Was ist ein "partent"?
Feralkyn
Tbf, those are compound words--just shorter words jammed together into a single, barely-coherent word-frankenstein's-monster
TotallyNotASerialKiller
Best I can do: Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
CaptnRisky
deoxyribonucleotides
theusernameimlookingfor
In french, we got anticonstitutionnellement (25 letters). Well known long word, never used, except maybe in super-nerdy political circle.
kingkongkeom
*laughs in German
Deezze
wollte ich auch schreiben lol
manulofdoom
Deutschsprachlergelächter.
Rnxhydhhxdf6
Uncharacteristically. The rest are probably medical
buttdestroyer
Superbadmegafartsyndrome, usually appears in people who have met me.
extralargehobo
It’s never lupus.
atrielienz
Compartmentalization.
Rnxhydhhxdf6
Is antidisestablishment fair play?
cjsmith
I counted just to check
DamnumAbsqueInjuria
I’m glad someone did because I was lazy enough to just believe
KsuviKhor
For example, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
KsuviKhor
jdwagBugVillain
ilovedogknots
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Strangedays2024
The sound of it is something quite atrocious...
olian04
But if you say(sing) it loud enough you'll always sound precocious...
MahuAurelius
I came here to write that. Fuckin' beat me to it, you wonderful Dog Naughtier.
Murmull
Icelandic- Vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverkfærageymsluskúrslyklakippuhringurinn
Murmull
Oops that's more than 20. Language good, math bad.
Peanutchews
What does that mean and how do you pronounce it?
Murmull
Good luck on pronouncing it if not icelandic. But its: the key ring of the toolshed belonging to the road workers at Vaðlaheiði. Approx
DestinyPrevails
Okay, but if we allow compound word, German and Nordics have a distinct advantage. We have centuries of experience doing this kind of shit.
Murmull
True
Zuikkis
Finnish is even better because we embed words like "to, in" as suffixes to the main word. You can generate long words that aren't compounds.
Zuikkis
"järjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkään" is a single non-compound word, 40 characters.
beenpostingsince
Antidisestablishmentarianism
ShipOfFate
I learned that word from Ice-T
SgtLoveCrimes
Nah, fuck the church.
espadakitetsu
CorvusNigrus
that llama smth city
EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - The fear of long words
Feralkyn
Someone made that up, so it's not really official; the right term is sesquipedalophobia
TheobromineAddict
hadtochangemyusernamecauseIgotdivorced
floccinaucinihilipilification
iCanOrderPepperoniPizza
You beat me to it.
sweaterrarium
Ha, used that word as a team name to mess with the game host. As a Russian in Russia
thotterpop
I'm sure most Americans don't even know that word exists.
DamnumAbsqueInjuria
It’s news to me and I’m certainly not going to even attempt to pronounce it
Philme
Flossy nossy nil a pil a fa cation, off the top of my head
PianoMan2112
According to Big Bird, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz is a word.
JustitiaetFortitudo
It's the most remarkable word I've ever seen...
Rnxhydhhxdf6
I saw this and I sung it in my head as I read. U ever watch a show with a kid and realize they left there room and it's just you?
keystotheairlock
Ahbeckdifgurjecklemunneppkerstoovwicks’s, the most wonderful word that I had ever seen.
PianoMan2112
Was the song also on TV, or just the record that my sisters played apparently WAY too much?
keystotheairlock
bro that shit was ABSOLUTELY on TV
manulofdoom
*laughs in german*
GorillaStark
Fork
DamnumAbsqueInjuria
Ah there we go. Now I feel I like a fucking idiot.
Cedr3000
Dutch: Hottentottententententoonstelling
LievenDV
Zoek eens op “19 letterwoorden Lingo” van de vliegende panters :D
jackhunterjones4
Discombobulated is only 15 and that about as good as I can do.
jackhunterjones4
Anachronistically is 17, I one upped myself but still not 20. Fuck!
Shifuede
Uncharacteristically, noninstitutionalized, compartmentalization...that's all I got.
JamesRosco
Me: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...
SubtleSun
Y'all'ld've'd'd you all would have had had
Shifuede
Ppoentje
My dyslexia hurts
TheHornyCactus
Tinisgrandpa
After our audit on mental health services compartmentalization, we found three patients uncharacteristically noninstitutionalized.
valen00
They then read this report and were subsequently admitted.
LoveTheShiningWire
Compartmentalization is one of my favorite words but fuck me if I can ever say it correctly the first time. Idk what my deal is.
SecretImigurianLurkerAgent
In used it sounds german
TheEmeraldProphylactic
Try splitting the word up into sections. Compartmentalise (U.K. hi) it, if you will.
LoveTheShiningWire
Haha I have started to try and say “compartment) but I flub up the timing to add the alise. But I’m getting better ?
sweaterrarium
Read them correctly ? I'm Russian and speak some more languages
Petrojet
Reading them in your head doesn't count, hot shot. ;)
sweaterrarium
Read them aloud btw
sweaterrarium
https://yadi.sk/d/qvZCuBB8wHYHgQ
Feralkyn
That's some SERIOUS effort to strike back 10/10