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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Got my vote

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Uripades? Umendades?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

How are they pronounced?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Molec-ulēs and partic-ulēs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah, the heroes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They were trying to show the hero-like pronunciation applied. Think of e.g. Hercules.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's "Herkules" in german, like you write it, so i don't know.

This petition has missing rules.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

The English pronunciation of Hercules is effectively the same as the German pronuncation.

Important for the joke is that the normal pronunciation for molecules differs, even though it also ends on -cules...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Honestly, go with the epic version.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Molleck-Yoo-Lees and Parr-Tick-Lees

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