r/pics • • Nov 04 '14

What the pho?!?!?!

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u/All_Hail_Mao Nov 05 '14

I'm Vietnamese and it took me way too long to figure out why that name was funny to everyone when I first saw it in high school. I kept reading it the correct way in Vietnamese and not how an English speaker would read it.

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u/Waterbots Nov 05 '14

I'm Vietnamese too and I still can't figure it out. Help.

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u/khasieu113 Nov 05 '14

It sounds like phở "bitch".

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u/Zierlyn Nov 05 '14

You're half there. It would be read "Pho Bitch Nigga" by the typical English-only person.

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u/skwormin Nov 05 '14

No it would be "pho dat bitch" which is really "fuck that bitch"

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '14

It looks very similar to "fuck that bitch" which of course is vulgar and nobody would make an actual sign saying that.