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am_Unition  ·  1699 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ennui is a disease

Nope, it was this one:

I'm so sorry to have wasted your time. Thanks, everyone, for watching my show, "How am_Unition incorrectly pronounces 'Ennui' ".





Devac  ·  1699 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Another weird one is 'ergot'. Heard people pronouncing it anywhere from ërgaux to (o)ur-git.

user-inactivated  ·  1699 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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am_Unition  ·  1699 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It’s “air go”, for me.

Do you say “zee” or “zed”? :)

kleinbl00  ·  1698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Just to be sure: you're mispronouncing claviceps fungus, not latin, right?

am_Unition  ·  1698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

100 purse scent

steve  ·  1699 days ago  ·  link  ·  

but I'm confused... that's not really a meme - it's just a song? and the lyrics are "Send me on my way".

am_Unition  ·  1699 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The internet really mangled how people perceive the words "memetic" and "meme" . If I start singing the intro to that song, when a guy's mumbling "on the way", while playing the guitar part, 90% of American adults will be like "oh yeah!!", and they'll know the tune. That's memetic enough for me to call it such. Memes aren't only a picture with white text.

But yes, somehow my dumbass brain decided the guy was actually saying "Ennui", and I have no idea when that happened.

I'm so sorry, everyone!

kleinbl00  ·  1698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What you're describing are called eggcorns and they are the best thing ever. Especially as they're the common reaction of any average reality show contestant to the vocabulary of the average reality show producer. You heard "on nui" where he was saying "on my way." We had a contestant once who told everyone she wasn't going to be their "escape goat". A friend of mine overheard a producer asking a Real Housewife if she found someone else "sycophantic" and the Real Housewife responded "...yeah when janine did that thing it made me feel all sick'n'frantic..."

am_Unition  ·  1698 days ago  ·  link  ·  

/r/boneappletea will help people nip that problem in the butt.