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  • Risk@feddit.uktoMemes@lemmy.mlHave mercy on our souls
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    1 year ago

    I mean, it’s only embarrassing for them - if they want to be loud, proud, and wrong that’s okay.

    But at the same time, they may well set the trend for how it’s pronounced in the future.

    Lord knows, waDer (i.e. water) started somewhere…

    Edit: I’m guessing I offended someone by implying that saying ‘wadder’ is the wrong way to say water, hahaha.






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    1 year ago

    Eh, I prefer the descriptivist method of language. It’s how language evolves over time.

    Comparing it to a personal name is a false equivalence. GIF is an acronym, people could enunciate each letter if they so preferred and it would be more accurate/true to creation than even the creator’s opinion of how to pronounce it.