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Topic: What grinds my gears: Americans who say "uber"

Anonymous 286735941ce2bc881a6aaccbaa60a499 started this discussion 4 months (2008-06-29 12:27:39 UTC) ago:

It's über, dammit! If you're gonna use a fancy foreign word, at least do it correctly!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Über

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Anonymous 5927eaeb4d9a540220106e650b1af4c9 replied with this 4 months (2008-06-29 12:31:19 UTC) ago, 4 minutes later (#29,414):

I knew someone once who pronounced it "urber."

Anonymous 415abcdd1dc1498504140fb959936f34 replied with this 4 months (2008-06-29 12:40:44 UTC) ago, 9 minutes later (#29,416):

Also it's "Wiener" and not "Weiner"!

Anonymous 1c3abcff40afcf5e4cf2fc3cd0a22b46 replied with this 4 months (2008-06-29 13:31:37 UTC) ago, 51 minutes later (#29,445):

also frenchmen who say "pique-nique", it's a fucking picnic, people should never adopt foreign words and change them!

Anonymous beef38584fed96302657a60809edd08e replied with this 4 months (2008-06-29 14:29:33 UTC) ago, 58 minutes later (#29,467):

I hate weeaboos that say "Neko" like "knee-ko" it's "Neh-ko" Lern2japanese, just because you can say 4 words, doesn't mean you deserve to move there.

At least i'm trying to learn the right way. Rosetta stone ftw.

Anonymous 0d1cc15098f6766c2367c29e8eedd9e7 replied with this 4 months (2008-06-29 15:52:54 UTC) ago, 1 hour later (#29,491):

Rosetta stone is shit, how can you learn from repeatedly hearing irrelevant words?
Most Japanese books don't actually tell you how to read the script, so you often have to buy separate books for it. But at least, you don't learn like a retarded child from them. Since when did children learn English from people saying cat to them a lot of times with a picture of a cat? What studies show that people can learn to think in another language with Rosetta Stone?

Anonymous 995107c5add8d8f9eb8049466f64702c replied with this 4 months (2008-06-29 18:07:47 UTC) ago, 2 hours later (#29,520):

@29,491

Um, well, isn't that exactly how a child learns to talk? If he hears the word cat associated with an actual cat several times, he learns that "cat" refers to that animal.