Date: 2018-02-25 12:59 pm (UTC)
calimac: (Default)
From: [personal profile] calimac
Interesting that the word "pwned" is pronounced "poned." I wouldn't know that as I've never heard it pronounced. I'd have said "pawned."

On that subject, pronouncing the word "Airbnb" absolutely baffled me on first encounter. To be pronounced the way they want it, I still think it should be spelled "Air-B&B" which would also make the etymology clear.

On that subject, there are two retired politicians whose surnames I have never heard pronounced and don't know how to say them because I'm not sure what language they're in.

Vicente Fox. As in English, or modified somehow to Spanish?

Michael Portillo. As in Spanish, or modified to English?

Date: 2018-02-25 02:21 pm (UTC)
danieldwilliam: (Default)
From: [personal profile] danieldwilliam
Michael Portillo is modified to English.

Date: 2018-02-25 02:30 pm (UTC)
wychwood: chess queen against a runestone (Default)
From: [personal profile] wychwood
Portillo is pronounced as if it were English, with an "ill" sound in it.

Date: 2018-03-02 10:31 am (UTC)
naath: (Default)
From: [personal profile] naath
B&B -> B'n'B -> bnb I expect

Date: 2018-03-02 12:07 pm (UTC)
calimac: (Default)
From: [personal profile] calimac
I know that's what it means. I know that now. And if it were spelled "Air-B&B" I would have had no trouble. It was "Airbnb" that defeated me at first. "Aibunub"?

Stonewall

Date: 2018-02-25 02:33 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] luckylove
I read the comments so no one else has to. They are full of racists and transphobes and racist transphobes.
Admittedly I only made it to the third comment thread before I bailed but those three were bad enough.

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