Consider the following
Saxophone - Persephone
Sax-oh-fo-nay
Huh, the way I say Persephone (per-seh-fuh-knee), Saxophone would be pronounced sax-aw-fuh-knee or maybe sax-oh-phony (the way I say saxophone normally in my accent is sacks-uh-phone)
Yeah, “ay” at the end is closer to the original Greek than the “ee” way we say it in English.
TIL, thanks!
Michael Bublé - Google
Canoes - Volcanoes
This one is cursed
MalEcoLes ParTecUles
Can someone help me out and tell me how they would be pronounced?
I think I got par-teh-cleese.
Moe-leck-you-leese?
What you wrote looks right to me.
Moe-leh-cleese, to make it more like Hercules = Heracles in Greek.
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This reminded me I play an online game with a guy who signs in as Testicles, the Greek philosopher.
Ah yes, I for one live by the Testiclecratic Oath.
My partner recently bought me a stuffed cat that has giant balls. It’s hilarious, long story. Anyway I’ve named him Bophades.
Bophades
I’m familiar with the legend, yes.
I would also like entomologists to pronounce the insect orders properly. That ‘p’? It belongs to the ‘-ter’. It’s ‘pter’, for wing. As in ‘coleo-ptera’, the ‘shield wing’, not ‘col-e-OP-tera’. Or ‘neuro-ptera’, the ‘lace-wing’, not ‘neur-OP-tera’.
We actually put the accent on a syllable THAT DOESN’T FUCKING EXIST in the Greek.
Fucking nonsense.
Helico-pter
I learned from ESLs. Sue me.
Just like tentacles and obstacles!
And testicles!
The mighty Testacles, completely immune to any type of scrotal discomfort (like a true manwhore).
Archenemy, Patella the mighty.
Socratal*
I can no longer read tentacles without thinking “Don’t buy a boat.”
Brain has been patched. I can’t undo this now.
Lemme ruin ‘testicles’ for ya too.
One man’s ruin is another man’s treasure
Poseidon’s naughty child, Barnacles.
Particle man particle man
when he’s underwater does he get wet? or does the water get him, instead?
Nobody knows
It took this post and recent bio classes to realize that this line refers to the hydrophilic nature of water molecules, so the reason it is a question if he gets wet underwater, is because a water molecule can’t get wet, as it’s water, and even if he isn’t a water molecule, they’re attracted to all particles including other water molecules, so the water would definitely get him.
I petition that henceforth all words be pronounced in the spirit of Greek heroes
“My testicles itch.”
All hail the mighty Testicules!
All hail the great Johncles
I find this hilarious
Where do I sign?
I can’t see my own post!
Struck down by the gods.
It’s a ghost!
Me neither
I can see it just fine, it says . . .
Also Thermo-meter rather than ther-mom-eter would be good
Bi-cycle instead of bi-sickle or motor-sickle instead of motor-cycle
One instance where the german pronounciation actually makes sense
Reminds me of the fact that Helicopter is a compound noun of helico (spiral) and pter (wing).
So you’re saying it’s pronounced helicopter, and not helicopter?
And it’s also spelled accordingly!
I love me some Buffalo chicken pters.
What does “let’s meet those headlines” mean?
Meet those headlines [with all the flair that they give science journalism]
I will never not pronounce them that way now that I have seen this.
