this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
1172 points (98.7% liked)

Microblog Memes

9437 readers
1492 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
(page 2) 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] ProstheticBrain@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I still can't get my head around the fact Hegemony isn't pronounced like Ceremony, "Hedge-eh-moany".

I was horrified to find out it's "heg" like "leg" and "emony" like "lemony". Such an uncomfortable word to say, it still trips me up every time I say it.

[–] mac 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Gotta get a petition running to change that, I refuse to believe it isn't 'Hedge' - 'emony'. Honestly that's disgusting.

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] exoplanetary@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

One of my best instances of this was when I pronounced “ricochet” as “rich-oh-chett” (rhymes with Boba Fett) as a kid. Never gonna live that one down.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Mango@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I was really embarrassed the first time I watched Harry Potter.

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Shillelagh embodies this for me. None of my guesses were even close.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

You can tell someone grew up a rube because they say things like "You can tell someone grew up reading"

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I always enjoyed reading about Yosemight National Park

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You can tell someone grew up reading amongst troglodytes this way.

No one only family read, I was forty years of age having a very Oscar from The Office discussion about ISIS and mispronounced “apostasy”. I still lie awake cringing over that sometimes.

[–] graff@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Mispronouncing a word is not a bad thing. It means you read it somewhere before

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mispronouncing words isn’t really a big deal, just blame it on English being a tricky language (it is). Tbh no one would even remember such a thing, so I don’t recommend being sleepless about it :)

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Mine was facade. I read it as fuh-cade and thought phissod was people putting up a false front.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] elrik@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Idempotent

It still never sounds right to me.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] SomeoneElse@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

I feel personally attacked.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›