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[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 145 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Remember, small impressionable children, oligarchy and rigged market capitalism is the only way, everything else is evil and anti-freedom, and remember to compete against your fellow Americans to try to get more than them!

For our next lesson, critical thinking and reasoning! Just kidding, we don't do that here. It doesn't help to make you better laborers.

And now onto history, open your textbooks to page 33:

[-] pigup@lemmy.world 69 points 3 weeks ago

Damn that picture is pissing me off lol

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 52 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Imagine what Native Americans must think of such depictions.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 31 points 3 weeks ago

Well if they wanted to tell their side of the story, they should've won.

Not our fault they didn't invent guns or a bunch of diseases by domesticating livestock in population centers!

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 weeks ago

I think it pisses them off too

[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

For First Thanksgiving?

Most of that is believed to have happened or is so cloaked in mythos that any version is likely to be true if you're talking the American version.

Source, native. The women being there is the thing that's least likely to be true.

Nearly all of what historians have learned about one of the first Thanksgiving comes from a single eyewitness report: a letter written in December 1621 by Edward Winslow, one of the 100 or so people who sailed from England aboard the Mayflower in 1620 and founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. William Bradford, Plymouth’s governor in 1621, wrote briefly of the event in Of Plymouth Plantation, his history of the colony, but that was more than 20 years after the feast itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

https://www.history.com/news/first-thanksgiving-colonists-native-americans-men

[-] manucode@infosec.pub 56 points 3 weeks ago

I'm interested in how Americans pronouncebourgeois.

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 64 points 3 weeks ago

as long as the French get offended by the pronunciation, then it's pronounced correctly in American

[-] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 3 weeks ago

We just say bourgeois

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 47 points 3 weeks ago

Burgers

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

Boogers please. We ain't no uppity frogs.

[-] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 43 points 3 weeks ago

"job creators"

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm actually something of a job creator myself. Last week at the grocery store I didn't return my cart to the coral. They had to pay someone to go out and bring it in!

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

I personally pronounce it fahrenheit

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago

Boo shwa zee

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

I pronounce it bore-zhwah. Is that wrong?

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Feel like that's as correct as we can get, as Americans.

[-] olosta@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

French pronounce the "ou" as is "tour". But you do you.

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Tour as in tu- er or tore? I've heard it pronounced both ways here in the states

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Whoa what? I've never heard anyone pronounce tour as tu-er. At that point you might as well slap an umlaut on that bad boy

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Bore rhymes with tour.. no?

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago

Bore rhymes with tore. Tour is closer to sewer

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I've never heard anyone pronounce "tour" as rhymes with "sewer" in English. Perhaps in other languages?

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

Closer to sewer, or "doer" or "fewer". Compress it to one syllable. Think "ooh" not "ohh".

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[-] static09@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe you're pronouncing sewer in thinking of a person who sews instead of sewer as in waste drainage.

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[-] sparkle@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

In most American dialects and some British dialects, "bore" and "tour" rhyme (called the "pour-poor merger"). But in some dialects it may rhyme with "sewer"/"two-er" or have the same sound as in "blue" or even as in "were".

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A more aggressively American pronunciation would be bore-ge-oh-is.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

'Boojz wah', or if I'm feeling silly bourguignon. But I'd probably be more likely to use 'middle class' instead of the French.

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

Different ways, I usually say boo-jwah, bur-jwah is also one I've heard though.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

Borzshwah

[-] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 10 points 3 weeks ago

Bourxjeauxaseaux

[-] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

I and anyone I've heard say the word says it the same as the English pronunciation in this random video I found searching for how to pronounce it. For whatever that small sample size is worth.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3pMOHP3Uu54

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[-] MovingThrowaway@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

I've heard it with varying degrees of the R sound. There's a common shorthand "bougie" (BOO-zhee) that people often hear before learning the original term, so they'll maintain the pronunciation into BOO-zhwa.

Sometimes the R is slightly swallowed so it sounds more like BOH-zhwa, maybe very light throat vocalization. Or people skip over it and it's buh-ZHWA. Some commit fully for BOR-zhwa.

Universally seems to maintain (my non-native understanding of) the French "oi" and silent S.

I have yet to hear anyone pronounce it correctly: bor-gee-oice.

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[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 23 points 3 weeks ago

Me when the science teacher says the earth is round /s