• NoLeftLeftWhereILive
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    1 year ago

    So many, but the funniest has been "meme" (English is not my first language). My online friends who are English speakers were eternally amused by it, sadly my audhd brain has forgotten how I pronounced it.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      My first encounter with it was from the Selfish Gene, where Dawkins describes it as a "mind version of a gene", so he thought meme sounded fine. Hearing Maymay was bonkers to me.

    • alexandra_kollontai [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      I had a similar thing where I learned the pronunciation of meme and then proceeded to say the name of Pepe the Frog in the same way, like "peep". I still do this, but I've been informed it's wrong.