Zerlyna@lemmy.world to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoKhan!!!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up194arrow-down114
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minus-squareLumidaublinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down2·1 day agoI suspect this might depend on the variety of English you speak? (And non-natives can fuck right off löl)
minus-squarethen_three_more@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 day agoI think you need to speak the American dialect specifically. As I Brit I could not get this one at all until I came to the comments. I was thinking Kahn on the loo. Kahn on the big. Kahn on the toilet.
minus-squareOpenStars@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 hours agoAs an American I was doing similarly, just with different phrases (like “porcelain throne”:-).
minus-squareLumidaublinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoYeah, that doesn’t rhyme at all in my head. I can see how it would though, I just have to rewire my brain to hear it.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 hours agoHow do you pronounce those words to make them rhyme? Khon? Jahn?
minus-squareLumidaublinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 hours agoI don’t pronounce them like that at all but I’ve heard “john” be pronounced with a long “ah” sound, like “jawwwwn” or “jaaaaahn” to rhyme with “Khan”. I don’t know, I don’t even go here (non-native).
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 hours agoNon native too, trying to learn. English weirdos.
I suspect this might depend on the variety of English you speak? (And non-natives can fuck right off löl)
I think you need to speak the American dialect specifically.
As I Brit I could not get this one at all until I came to the comments. I was thinking Kahn on the loo. Kahn on the big. Kahn on the toilet.
As an American I was doing similarly, just with different phrases (like “porcelain throne”:-).
I was thinking Khan on the Khazi
Kahn on the crapper
Kahn on a John.
Yeah, that doesn’t rhyme at all in my head. I can see how it would though, I just have to rewire my brain to hear it.
How do you pronounce those words to make them rhyme? Khon? Jahn?
I don’t pronounce them like that at all but I’ve heard “john” be pronounced with a long “ah” sound, like “jawwwwn” or “jaaaaahn” to rhyme with “Khan”. I don’t know, I don’t even go here (non-native).
Non native too, trying to learn. English weirdos.
On a can