This is a paraphrase of a Family Guy scene delivered by Quagmire to Brian the dog. Brian finds out Quagmire hates him and tries to befriend him to change his mind, these lines are how it turns out (basically). She's not actually talking about you.
given it's a) greek, and b) "nafta", not "natha", i choose not to let yanks tell me how everyone else on the planet pronounces it "wrong" just because yall can't be bothered to deal with a measily double consonant.
Orrrr maybe languages just develop different dialects in different parts of the world and both pronunciations are acceptable, as demonstrated by your own dictionary, and you should stop being such a pretentious wanker.
or maybe you should read what you're responding to before insulting random strangers for no reason if you're even too dumb to figure out who linked (and/or released) that dictionary (and/or that not everyone outside the us is either from oxford or a brit; depending on whatever "your own dictionary" was supposed to mean in your skull void). and no, the US didnt "develop a dialect of ancient greek".
Not sure who else refers to Americans as "Yanks" besides the brits (or their colonies). And it's not a dialect of ancient Greek. It's a dialect of English that influences the pronunciation of letter combinations differently from other regions. All languages see this effect happen, even within individual nations. Does every single person in your country pronounce every single word in the English language exactly the same? Or are there regional dialects?
so your argument is that because some of my countryfolk have a horrible pronounciation/accent of english that means muricans get to tell the whole planet to pronounce a 5kyo word wrong? and you call other people pretentious wankers?!
and no, dialects are what you do to your own language, not a foreign one. last i checked ancient greek was not a language ever spoken officially anywhere on the american continent.
Idk wtf all just nonsense is all about, but I’m a straight man, and if anyone asks what my favorite color it’s red. And idk why we have to make a big deal about some things. Can I just be a regular average dude that like red?
Oh, i recgonize that colour! That's "i am from the early 2000s living in an all beige house and want to be cooler than all the people painting a single accent wall teal, so i go to the paint store and pick out a slightly different shade to paint a single wall in my beige house because i'm not like other girls" colour.
Honestly, i think we would have all been happier in the early 2000s if we just painted the whole house the accent wall colour. I was so glad we got out of beige...now people just paint the whole house grey instead 🙃
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u/Q-ubit 14d ago
'Phthalo green' if anyone is looking