Fesshole 🧻
I'm working with a very charming non native English speaker, so acknowledging that this Fess is a bit unkind. But he uses the word "focus" a lot. And when he does, it comes out as "fock yous". Which has me giggling like a schoolboy every time he says it. Sorry.
Mar 27 at 12:20pmWeb
Show threadJohn Maxwell2d ago

@fesshole How to do so is so context dependent that maybe you can't.

But if you can communicate that to him somehow constructively, I bet he'd appreciate it. I would want to know about it if I were accidentally cussing, dammit.

Show threadGJ Groothedde 🇪🇺2d ago
@fesshole You speak English because it's the only thing you speak. They speak English because it's the only thing you speak. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Show threadJo Dusepo  جوهانا دوسپو2d ago
@fesshole This is a problem with English's inherent y-sound put into u. For instance: unicorn, universe, uniform, university, user, and even the loan-word ukulele (which doesn't in it's original Hawaiian pronunciation). For a non-native speaker, it makes sense it'd be difficult to know which instances of u do or don't have that inherent unwritten y-sound.
Show threadCK11h ago
@dusepo @fesshole Right, but the wrong things are sometimes getting taught. In this case it needs to be “say faux-kiss”
Show threadJo Dusepo  جوهانا دوسپو11h ago
@whophd @fesshole In my accent it's foh-kuss. 🤷‍♀️
Show threadBewilderbeast2d ago
@fesshole I had an accounting professor who's accent made the word "factory" sound like "f*cktory". I learned and giggled like the childish fool that I am, a lot in that class.