Grail@multiverse.soulism.net to Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoI think amp-hours are confusing and I wish they just gave us battery life figures in joulesmessage-squaremessage-square38linkfedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down15
arrow-up165arrow-down1message-squareI think amp-hours are confusing and I wish they just gave us battery life figures in joulesGrail@multiverse.soulism.net to Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square38linkfedilink
minus-squareZwuzelmaus@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·5 days agoGreat. Very unpopular. Take my upvote, and now let me try it: Joule is a French name, and French is eek, and Americans never know how to pronounce it anyway. So it must be avoided!
minus-squareAkasazh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoWait till you find out where the name Ampère hails from
minus-squareZwuzelmaus@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoAs a European, I know it already 😉
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days ago Americans never know how to pronounce it anyway Do you have an example of an American mispronouncing joule or is that just a gut feeling
minus-squareZwuzelmaus@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoIt’s the other way round: all French words are your examples. Each time when I have heard a French word spoken by an American, they did it in a very unexpected way, as if it were not French at all.
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoJoule jool jewel Juul what’s the problem?
Great. Very unpopular.
Take my upvote, and now let me try it:
Joule is a French name, and French is eek, and Americans never know how to pronounce it anyway. So it must be avoided!
Wait till you find out where the name Ampère hails from
As a European, I know it already 😉
Do you have an example of an American mispronouncing joule or is that just a gut feeling
It’s the other way round: all French words are your examples. Each time when I have heard a French word spoken by an American, they did it in a very unexpected way, as if it were not French at all.
Joule jool jewel Juul what’s the problem?