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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 50 points 9 months ago (5 children)

My buddy says "chasm" with a soft ch. We've tried to correct him. He doesn't hear us. He also pronounces "tome" like "tomb".

We play DnD together if anyone was wondering why these words would come up with any regularity.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 9 months ago

I total believe you're not in a weird magic cult winks

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've heard "chasm" pronounced as both "chaz-um" and "kaz-um"

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

The correct one is "kaz-um," just like "chaos" isn't "chay-oss."

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

PTSD flashback to my ESL little self always mispronouncing choir after they told me to join to practice my English.

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Another funny story! An ex of mine was an exchange student in Germany (from Canada) when she was a high schooler, and she attended a children's choir concert where they sang "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", and in the line "you say tomato, I say tomato", they pronounced "tomato" the same way each time.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Does he say "chaos" with a soft "ch" as well?

He also pronounces “tome” like “tomb”

My roommate in college did that. Drove me nuts, but the worst was that he rhymed "epitome" with "tome."

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

No, his chaos is thankfully chaos. It would be kind of fitting if it weren't, though.

[–] UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Social studies teacher in high school dinged me 5 points for pronouncing epitome as epi-tome. Ended up with 95/100 but it's the principle of the matter.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I don't agree with that decision. Unless you had been specifically taught the proper pronunciation previously and still mispronounced it, the teacher should have just corrected you and moved on.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"kazum" is acceptable in my book. "Toom" is strange for a book though.