This reminded me I play an online game with a guy who signs in as Testicles, the Greek philosopher.
Let's meet those headlines
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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perishthethought@lemm.ee 11 months ago
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ah yes, I for one live by the Testiclecratic Oath.
skulblaka@kbin.social 11 months ago
My partner recently bought me a stuffed cat that has giant balls. It's hilarious, long story. Anyway I've named him Bophades.
perishthethought@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Bophades
I’m familiar with the legend, yes.
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
someguy3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can someone help me out and tell me how they would be pronounced?
jettrscga@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What you wrote looks right to me.
DroneRights@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Mol-eh-cue-lees
Par-tik-lees
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Par-tik-lees
Probably pronounced the same but my brain breaks it up like this:
Part-ih-klees
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Moe-leh-cleese, to make it more like Hercules = Heracles in Greek.
registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 11 months ago
Nobody likes Molesteclese.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Just like tentacles and obstacles!
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 months ago
And testicles!
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The mighty Testacles, completely immune to any type of scrotal discomfort (like a true manwhore).
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 11 months ago
I can no longer read tentacles without thinking “Don’t buy a boat.”
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I would also like entomologists to pronounce the insect orders properly. That ‘p’? It belongs to the ‘-ter’. It’s ‘pter’, for wing. As in ‘coleo-ptera’, the ‘shield wing’, not ‘col-e-OP-tera’. Or ‘neuro-ptera’, the ‘lace-wing’, not ‘neur-OP-tera’.
We actually put the accent on a syllable THAT DOESN’T FUCKING EXIST in the Greek.
Fucking nonsense.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Helico-pter
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
I learned from ESLs. Sue me.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Brain has been patched. I can’t undo this now.
Pogbom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lemme ruin ‘testicles’ for ya too.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 11 months ago
One man’s ruin is another man’s treasure
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Poseidon’s naughty child, Barnacles.
PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I find this hilarious
Where do I sign?
Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I petition that henceforth all words be pronounced in the spirit of Greek heroes
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
“My testicles itch.”
Threeme2189@lemm.ee 11 months ago
All hail the mighty Testicules!
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
All hail the great Johncles
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Particle man particle man
KreekyBonez@lemm.ee 11 months ago
when he’s underwater does he get wet? or does the water get him, instead?
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nobody knows
jandar_fett@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It took this post and recent bio classes to realize that this line refers to the hydrophilic nature of water molecules, so the reason it is a question if he gets wet underwater, is because a water molecule can’t get wet, as it’s water, and even if he isn’t a water molecule, they’re attracted to all particles including other water molecules, so the water would definitely get him.
Zoop@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Does whatever a particle can!
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Struck down by the gods.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
It’s a ghost!
PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Me neither
Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I can see it just fine, it says . . .
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
What does “let’s meet those headlines” mean?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Meet those headlines [with all the flair that they give science journalism]
Buxton800@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also Thermo-meter rather than ther-mom-eter would be good
variants@possumpat.io 11 months ago
Bi-cycle instead of bi-sickle or motor-sickle instead of motor-cycle
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Reminds me of the fact that Helicopter is a compound noun of helico (spiral) and pter (wing).
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So you’re saying it’s pronounced helicopter, and not helicopter?
Dicska@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And it’s also spelled accordingly!
TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I love me some Buffalo chicken pters.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I will never not pronounce them that way now that I have seen this.
jasondj@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
This really should be on change.org.
Maalus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yup, just as any other useless petition that does nothing lol
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Romanian intensifies
CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Incontinentia Buttocks
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Got my vote
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Molecvles nvts
randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Uripades? Umendades?
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 11 months ago
How are they pronounced?
HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Molleck-Yoo-Lees and Parr-Tick-Lees
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Honestly, go with the epic version/
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The English pronunciation would be “her-Q-leez”
For the Greek pronunciation, if I remember what I was told, the long “E” at the end should actually be short; the “R” is mixed with an “L” sound; and the “H” is silent.
Pronounced something like “eee-lrak-aice”
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Thanks!
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Consider the following
Saxophone - Persephone
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sax-oh-fo-nay
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Huh, the way I say Persephone (per-seh-fuh-knee), Saxophone would be pronounced sax-aw-fuh-knee or maybe sax-oh-phony (the way I say saxophone normally in my accent is sacks-uh-phone)
nomecks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Michael Bublé - Google
BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Canoes - Volcanoes
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This one is cursed
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 11 months ago
MalEcoLes ParTecUles