• Synapse@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    It’s a normal O, no accent. It’s the name of a place, not really translatable. The argument is, prononciation of “posay” is nowhere near to “pussy” if you pronounce it the regular French way.

    It’s prononced more like “pause-hay”.

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      10 hours ago

      So, pronouncing pussy but in a funny exaggerated way? I’m imaging Turk from scrubs describing what he did over the weekend to JD.

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        10 hours ago

        It’s a “O” sound followed by a “Z” sound. So, if you have a really, really weird way of pronouncing “pussy”, I guess.

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          To be fair, it’s about how I’d imagine inspector Clouseau pronouncing ‘pussy’, so it tracks