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culprit@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 11 months ago
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    Remember, small impressionable children, oligarchy and rigged market capitalism is the only way, everything else is evil and anti-freedom, and remember to compete against your fellow Americans to try to get more than them!

    For our next lesson, critical thinking and reasoning! Just kidding, we don’t do that here. It doesn’t help to make you better laborers.

    And now onto history, open your textbooks to page 33:

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      Damn that picture is pissing me off lol

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        Imagine what Native Americans must think of such depictions.

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          Well if they wanted to tell their side of the story, they should’ve won.

          Not our fault they didn’t invent guns or a bunch of diseases by domesticating livestock in population centers!

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          I think it pisses them off too

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            For First Thanksgiving?

            Most of that is believed to have happened or is so cloaked in mythos that any version is likely to be true if you’re talking the American version.

            Source, native. The women being there is the thing that’s least likely to be true.

            Nearly all of what historians have learned about one of the first Thanksgiving comes from a single eyewitness report: a letter written in December 1621 by Edward Winslow, one of the 100 or so people who sailed from England aboard the Mayflower in 1620 and founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. William Bradford, Plymouth’s governor in 1621, wrote briefly of the event in Of Plymouth Plantation, his history of the colony, but that was more than 20 years after the feast itself.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

            https://www.history.com/news/first-thanksgiving-colonists-native-americans-men

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    I’m interested in how Americans pronouncebourgeois.

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      as long as the French get offended by the pronunciation, then it’s pronounced correctly in American

    • LoudWaterHombre@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      We just say bourgeois

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      Burgers

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        Boogers please. We ain’t no uppity frogs.

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      “job creators”

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        I’m actually something of a job creator myself. Last week at the grocery store I didn’t return my cart to the coral. They had to pay someone to go out and bring it in!

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      I personally pronounce it fahrenheit

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      Boo shwa zee

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          Lol Idk I’m not a linguist, me probably from hearing it pronounced that way in media.

          “DOWN WITH THE BOURGEOISIE!”

          Seems like it comes from the French pronunciation? Idk man

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            Those are two different words. Bourgeois is an adjective describing the materialist characteristic of the middle class. The bourgeoisie is the materialistic middle class itself.

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              Ah I misread then lol

              Boosh-E is probably more accurate then?

              Or booshjie lol

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                “Fires two random arrows, both to the linguist’s heart. Imagine if he tried!”

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                For fucks sake we say boozhwah or boojee.

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                  Lmfao

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      I pronounce it bore-zhwah. Is that wrong?

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        Feel like that’s as correct as we can get, as Americans.

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          French pronounce the “ou” as is “tour”. But you do you.

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            Tour as in tu- er or tore? I’ve heard it pronounced both ways here in the states

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              Whoa what? I’ve never heard anyone pronounce tour as tu-er. At that point you might as well slap an umlaut on that bad boy

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            Bore rhymes with tour… no?

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              Bore rhymes with tore. Tour is closer to sewer

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                I’ve never heard anyone pronounce “tour” as rhymes with “sewer” in English. Perhaps in other languages?

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                  Closer to sewer, or “doer” or “fewer”. Compress it to one syllable. Think “ooh” not “ohh”.

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                  Maybe you’re pronouncing sewer in thinking of a person who sews instead of sewer as in waste drainage.

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                  Nah don’t get it wrong I get shit because I say tour instead of tore. Poem instead of pOh-ehm. Theatre instead of thee-ate-err

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              In most American dialects and some British dialects, “bore” and “tour” rhyme (called the “pour-poor merger”). But in some dialects it may rhyme with “sewer”/“two-er” or have the same sound as in “blue” or even as in “were”.

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                Aha. See, that explains the disconnect. Thank you.

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        A more aggressively American pronunciation would be bore-ge-oh-is.

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      Borzshwah

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      ‘Boojz wah’, or if I’m feeling silly bourguignon. But I’d probably be more likely to use ‘middle class’ instead of the French.

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      Different ways, I usually say boo-jwah, bur-jwah is also one I’ve heard though.

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      Bourxjeauxaseaux

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      I and anyone I’ve heard say the word says it the same as the English pronunciation in this random video I found searching for how to pronounce it. For whatever that small sample size is worth.

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3pMOHP3Uu54

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      I’ve heard it with varying degrees of the R sound. There’s a common shorthand “bougie” (BOO-zhee) that people often hear before learning the original term, so they’ll maintain the pronunciation into BOO-zhwa.

      Sometimes the R is slightly swallowed so it sounds more like BOH-zhwa, maybe very light throat vocalization. Or people skip over it and it’s buh-ZHWA. Some commit fully for BOR-zhwa.

      Universally seems to maintain (my non-native understanding of) the French “oi” and silent S.

      I have yet to hear anyone pronounce it correctly: bor-gee-oice.

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      Beurj-wah

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    Me when the science teacher says the earth is round /s

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    Reminds me of this scene in the big short:

    Rabbi Scene

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      I thought Jews were supposed to think critically about religion. After all, that’s why Yahweh keeps the devil around, to question them.

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    https://www.theragblog.com/lamar-w-hankins-slipping-creationism-into-texas-textbooks/

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      this is gonna be texas in about 3 weeks at this rate

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    my teacher last year was like this

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