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Science Memes @mander.xyz fossilesque @mander.xyz 7 mo. ago

Let's meet those headlines

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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)
- Michael Bublé - Google
  
  Canoes - Volcanoes
  
  This one is cursed
- MalEcoLes ParTecUles
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.
- Testicles and the sack of rome
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.
- Mol-eh-cue-lees
  
  Par-tik-lees
  
  Par-tik-lees
  
  Probably pronounced the same but my brain breaks it up like this:
  
  Part-ih-klees
  
  Testicules or Testiklees?
- Moe-leh-cleese, to make it more like Hercules = Heracles in Greek.
  
  Nobody likes Molesteclese.
- I think that's pretty much right! Similar pronunciations to Sophocles and Hercules.
Just like tentacles and obstacles!
- And testicles!
  
  The mighty Testacles, completely immune to any type of scrotal discomfort (like a true manwhore).
- I can no longer read tentacles without thinking "Don't buy a boat."
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.
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.
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
Particle man particle man
- when he's underwater does he get wet? or does the water get him, instead?
  
  Nobody knows
- Does whatever a particle can!
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
I find this hilarious

Where do I sign?
What does "let's meet those headlines" mean?
- Meet those headlines [with all the flair that they give science journalism]
- 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 . . .
I will never not pronounce them that way now that I have seen this.
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.
This really should be on change.org.
- Yup, just as any other useless petition that does nothing lol
Romanian intensificare
Incontinentia Buttocks
Molecvles nvts
Uripades? Umendades?
Got my vote
How are they pronounced?
- Molec-ulēs and partic-ulēs
  
  Nah, the heroes.
- Honestly, go with the epic version.
- The English pronunciation would be "her-Q-leez"
  
  For the Greek pronunciation, if I remember what I was told, the long "E" at the end should actually be short; the "R" is mixed with an "L" sound; and the "H" is silent.
  
  Pronounced something like "eee-lrak-aice"
  
  Thanks!
- Molleck-Yoo-Lees and Parr-Tick-Lees
I'm in.

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