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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 71 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

So, your father was a Woman?

[–] nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

Fwow him to the gwound most woughwy centuwion

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 61 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)
[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Now that's what I call an ewacuation

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

But they awe wunning towawds it.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

Not v, but j

[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 3 points 11 months ago

I was talking about what the mountain's doing 😏

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What the hell is going on with that hand bottom right

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 1 points 11 months ago

That's a normal looking pinkie /s

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago

Mawwiage.

Mawwiage is wat bwings us togevaaah, today.

Mawwiage. Vfat bwessed awaaaingement, vfat dweam wifin a dweeam…

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago (3 children)

How else would it be pronounced, how is the anglicised pronunciation?

(Serious question by a non native speaker)

[–] Paraneoptera@sopuli.xyz 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Anglicized" is probably not the best way to think about it. The Latin letter "v" was pronounced "w" through the classical period, but had shifted to β or v (fricative) by the third century, long before English existed. V was pronounced v (voiced labiodental fricative) for many centuries. And though we do tend to give the classical period a lot of prestige, it was just one phase for Latin.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Funny part is, the same shift happened in a lot of languages. I think some more obvious examples are modern German and Polish, where letter W corresponds to the V sound. Although I believe that the shift happened in German and then Polish borrowed the letter with the new pronunciation.

[–] flughoernchen@feddit.org 6 points 11 months ago

Thanks so much for pointing this out. As a native German speaker I still had no idea what's going on until this comment made me question what a W sounds like in other languages. It's literally a double-U in English, how come I never stumbled upon that.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

in swedish i think we've just gone from "fv" to "v", somehow

very common example since it's in old surnames: hufvud > huvud

[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 23 points 11 months ago

Veh-soo-vee-us.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

With "v" sounding like it does in other English words like valve.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How else would it be pronounced?

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A voiced labiodental fricative.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Sounds painful. You should have that looked at.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Then you stimulate the clitoris

[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

How I delete someone else’s account

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 10 points 11 months ago
[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I work in IT and had a dude use the UwU accent with me on a call today while I was trying to fix his email. Made me wanna barf.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How did you know that he was doing it on purpose? Some people talk that way naturally.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Because the call started off with him talking normally. I've spoken to him a bunch before today.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 5 points 11 months ago

Thanks I Hate It.....So Much

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago

Haircut checks out

[–] norimee@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago
[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Seeing all the compression artifacts reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaUIyvy8E8

[–] Jon_Servo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Does anybody ewse feew wike having a giggiw when I say the name... Biggus Dickus?

[–] librejoe@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago

Oh god, it's retarded