Considering the phoneme doesn't exist in English I'd give them a break. Esp given how hard it is to learn new ones after like, 10yo
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Replying to @dferrantino
yeah, but if they pronounced it like every other word that has a J in in it they’d be closer.
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Replying to @XaiaX @dferrantino
I really have no idea why people decided that specific J should be an ezh when there’s no other examples of that.
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Replying to @XaiaX @dferrantino
MW has some thoughts: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/6-common-hypercorrections-and-how-to-avoid-them/saying-92zh92-instead-of-92j92-when-pronouncing-words-from-a-foreign-language …
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Replying to @chaosprime @dferrantino
that is also my intuition but it still seems kinda random. I wonder if there are other letters that do that.
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Replying to @XaiaX @dferrantino
i guess people pronouncing habanero as habañero is a related case
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Replying to @chaosprime @dferrantino
waiter at an Italian restaurant in Boston “corrected” my pronunciation of bruschetta to “bru-shetta”. -__-
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Replying to @XaiaX @dferrantino
me: "let me get a gyro [foodstuff]" nyc gyro specialty place guy: "you mean a gyro [scope]?"
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Replying to @chaosprime @XaiaX
Yeah, I don't think there's any Greek dialect where our pronunciation of gyro is correct.
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Replying to @dferrantino @chaosprime
We can get around this by calling it a “spinny Greek taco”.
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conservation of angular momentum: it's what's for breakfast
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Replying to @chaosprime @dferrantino
I haven’t eaten today and all this food talk is making me really want a gyro now, damn.
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while satisfying this desire I heard someone call it a "gai-ro".
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