bad american pronunciations of (european) loanwords

[Kalahari Inkantation]

Fun Factâ,,¢: Prayg was the origin of the plague.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcoc_QSZshs[/youtube]

now this is truly something else

how do these people not feel like absolute retards

[Kalahari Inkantation]

https://forvo.com/word/university_of_notre_dame/#en

americans are truly an embarrassment

every other language represented gets it right except for us

[wawi]

people that always have to say the words in an accent to try and sound as authentic as possible are pretty weird too

[Kalahari Inkantation]

well i agree and i would and do suppress that urge irl (much as it may playgue me) for the purpose of healthy social assimilation (lol)

but the american bastardizations still trigger me something fierce

[wawi]

well i agree and i would and do suppress that urge irl (much as it may playgue me) for the purpose of healthy social assimilation

but the american bastardizations still trigger me something fierce

i didnt mean trying to pronounce it correctly, that's fine. I mean the people that have put on a heavy fake accent to pronounce the words.

[rdl]

people that always have to say the words in an accent to try and sound as authentic as possible are pretty weird too

this is how i feel and then people say im being insensitive. i can still speak some good amount of spanish, but i dont put on some cheesy mexican accent. do mexicans think "oh, this american guy doesnt intonate the way i do, hes rude"? no of course not.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

people that always have to say the words in an accent to try and sound as authentic as possible are pretty weird too

this is how i feel and then people say im being insensitive. i can still speak some good amount of spanish, but i dont put on some cheesy mexican accent. do mexicans think "oh, this american guy doesnt intonate the way i do, hes rude"? no of course not.

if i had to guess, foreigners probably find americans speaking their native language in a patternistic american accent to be kind of cute and respectful of their local culture

i mean, there is a reason we all find accented english speech to be endearing

but the dumb tryhard who speaks bad [foreign language x] with an aggressively caricatured accent just sounds insulting

[Samus Aran]

Jalapeño - Jalapeeno or Halapeeno vs hala-pen-nyo

this is a curse of living in the north. i've not met a single person up here who can pronounce this correctly.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

kaz... how do you pronounce prague

[Samus Aran]

kaz... how do you pronounce prague

prahg

[Kalahari Inkantation]

thank gaude

do you get weird looks for that

[Samus Aran]

thank gaude

do you get weird looks for that

no? i can't say i can recall the last time i would have said it aloud though. but i thought it was the general consensus that it was pronounced that way?

[Kalahari Inkantation]

it is

... except among the americans

[Kalahari Inkantation]

thank gaude

do you get weird looks for that

no? i can't say i can recall the last time i would have said it aloud though. but i thought it was the general consensus that it was pronounced that way?

also that reminds me

i'm gonna make you guys scream

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Prague,_Minnesota

New Prague /ˈnju� ˈpreɪɡ/ NEW PRAYG^[5]