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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I genuinely don't understand why that's so hard for Americans so say.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's not hard at all. But due to the fact that stealing other people's words and aggressively mispronouncing them seems to be the official British pastime, I don't give a fuck how you pronounce it. I'll pronounce it how it's spelled, or any other way I damn well please.

There are more of us than there are of you. It's our language now, you're an anachronism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The language is called English, not Obesitese

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