It's kind of funny how we mocked old people for years over mispronouncing "meme" and as soon as they got it right, we came up with "Pepe"

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• GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s not the fault of the people for mispronouncing, it’s the fault of the English language. In majority of languages, words are pronounced the same as they are written/spelled.

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Plenty of other languages don’t pronounce words how they are spelled.

    I’m studying Russian, plenty of letters have different sounds than their spelling sound depending on where they are in the word or sentence.

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s funny how “old” people literally invented the Internet and the word meme.

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    the word meme was popularized in 1976. It’s 50.

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• oreoreore@lemy.lol ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I swear to god if you imply that we’re supposed to say “Peep”…

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    peepee.

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• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I am pretty sure that Pepe already had been a few years old when I first heard “old” persons use the word “meme” (apart from the ancient internet founding fathers that helped invent memes in the first place).
  And was anyone seriously mocking them instead of just telling them how to pronounce it?

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• Stern@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They grew up with Pepe LePew so no excuse.

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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I never once heard “an old person” (whatever that means) mis-pronounce “meme”.

  And I’ve been around long enough as an adult to pre-date common usage of the term as its known today.

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• Dearth@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Famous cartoon skunk and sexual abuser Pepe le pew came first.

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  • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah the phrasing of this shower thought reads very naive to the point I am not even sure what they mean.

    Like even further, the last name Pepe has been quite famous in europe for fucking centuries.

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• melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Kids been doing shit like that throughout time. Pig Latin is one example but nowadays they just do words instead of the whole language. It’s easier and the internet makes it fly.

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  • Una@europe.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sus domesticus Latin. Sus? Romans were imposter all along? Interesting

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    • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      frfr no cap, like skibidi sigma ohio rizz.

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So, it’s not “me me” as in pointing out a meme and thinking, “Oh, that’s me!” Silly, whippersnappers. They probably still think GIF is pronounced similar to GIFT.

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  mehmeh-ehhhhh. mehmeh-ehhh. MEHMEH-EHHHH

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  • Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maymay

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