Comment on French culture

• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mike and Nike are pronounced similarly

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• Adiemus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A better example might be “home” and “some”, where only one letter is different, but the pronounciation is completely different. There are many words like these. English doesn’t make sense at all.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They are…it’s a regional thing

  See here m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkg5nLOgxII

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• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  (and why the fuck Mike and Nike aren’t pronounced similarly?)

  Well “Mike” is a typical appreciation of the name Micheal of Hebrew origin that long predates the English language. “Nike” is Ancient Greek, which also predates the English Language. Nike is the name of the Greek god of victory. So neither one of those is English.

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  • Rubanski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s like how you pronounce Hercules and molecules the same way

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hercules

      An Ancient Roman proper name derived from an Ancient Greek proper name Heracles, which is likely where we get our clues for modern pronunciation.

      molecules

      Thats a French word they built from a Latin base. Take it up with them on that one.

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But why is pronounced “Nai-ki” and not “Ny-ke”? We here don’t give a fuck a say “Nike” like Mike.

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We here don’t give a fuck a say “Nike” like Mike.

      The single syllable “Nike” pronunciation was introducing in the late 1980s or early 1990s with the advertising campaign for “Nike Air” shoes. Sometimes pop culture name shortening sticks. Another example of this would be the brand Porsche has two syllables, but has been shortened by most to a single syllable name.

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• rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  literally a french word

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