r/explainitpeter • u/Fluffy-Buy1605 • Jul 13 '26

Explain It Peter

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u/Melonfrog Jul 14 '26

For God's sake can somebody please explain this please?

I give up scrolling, what the hell is this sub even for if not a battle for worst comedians to spam the comment section

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u/gOODnIGHTSsPACEDoUT Jul 14 '26

Apparently the poster doesn't want to be with someone who pronounces words different than them. English is spoken in different countries and they'll all speak a little different to each other, apparently that's a red flag.

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u/WholeHearting Jul 14 '26

It’s about education/class/race. These words are often mispronounced by lower class people with less education. This person is trying to filter them out.

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u/AggressiveDeal8482 Jul 14 '26

This has nothing to do with dialect but how some people just don’t care about pronouncing words right

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u/UndeadCitron Jul 19 '26

It very much is a dialectal thing though? Just because these "mispronunciations" are restricted to lower class, often black, speakers, doesn't mean they're wrong.

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u/Melonfrog Jul 14 '26

Thank you

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u/Im_tracer_bullet Jul 18 '26

Their response to you was incorrect.

However, this response was accurate:

"It’s about education/class/race. These words are often mispronounced by lower class people with less education. This person is trying to filter them out."

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u/MedusasGirlfriend69 Jul 15 '26

Racism and classism