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Or… or you read it in the 3 word title of a meme. Doesn’t matter, learned word.

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Words go brrrr.

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Also dialects are a thing. The way a lot of words come out of my mouth has been culturally labeled as ignorant. I go out of my way to change my pronunciations at work so I get taken seriously, but I’ve been doing it less now that I’m accepted in that world. Maybe that caps how much farther I can go, but maybe I don’t want to go further if it means continuing to act like people who sound like how I sound are less than

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See holler, tow-up.

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Doesn’t mean it isn’t cute/funny when it does happen, though. Just this week my SO pronounced chihuahua as “CHA-HOO-A-HOO-A” so I told them “you know this word, it’s the taco bell dog” lol

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I have been pronouncing it like this since my buddy fucked it up in grade school lmao

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Thank you for the new method to make my family groan.

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That dog died over a decade ago. Do younger kids know what that is?

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Les Nessman comes to mind.

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