#for the record half my family is Eastern European so like my pronunciation skills are a problem everywhere

[seeminglyseph]

9 times out of 10 I’m gonna fuck up and pronounce it “Massive Two Shits” instead of “Massachusetts” and I am very sorry.

My mouth doesn’t do enunciation too good and you require me to pronounce all of the letters very specifically.

#for the record half my family is Eastern European so like my pronunciation skills are a problem everywhere #though the ‘settled communities geeeations ago’ and like ‘the Ukrainians and Polish bonded with the local Indigenous peopl’ #means that those three getting together are responsible for what my English sounds like today #(for the record a lot of Eastern European settlers in Canada were running from Russia. so. very little has changed.) #there’s also the Germans who probably did not help make the already rural accent sound like ‘Good Respectable English’ #I said once ‘you might not place it. people from here do their best not to sound like it once they leave.’ #which feels like it says a lot about how I feel about language policing without context #sometimes words mean different things for different people ‘cause their slang comes from different root languages #gotch are fun because it’s such a common phrase I know but it’s based in Ukrainian and a bunch of Eastern Canadians were talking shit #like that it wasn’t a real thing until I pointed out it was pronounced more like ‘gitch’ and is probably from Weatern Canada more #‘cause more Ukrainian settlers in western Canadian history. #accents. are fuckin weird