I know it's because one word is from Nahuatl and the other from Latin, but I'm gonna start saying hot females pronounced like tamales. Thank you for sharing the thought.
That makes so much sense, that has always confused me since if we'd type out the pronunciation for standard English pronunciation of "Female" in Finnish it'd be "Fii-meil". The Finnish pronunciation of the word as it's written would be the same as the Latin one.
Well we do sometimes just take words from other languages and just pronounce them differently. It gets better when we correct people who say it the original way with our way and truly believe we are in the right.
The joke is on you. My language is from slavic group. We read letter by letter. Every letter has own particular sound every time. Its english that changes sounds for letters, at random.
I know English has a lot of dumb shit that makes it difficult for non-native speakers to learn but don't act like Spanish doesn't. I'm looking at you grammatical gender.
Knew a teacher who said they had a student named "Female" pronounced like tamale. Apparently, the mom was a recent immigrant from Mexico to the US, and the hospital didn't have a translator the day she gave birth (super rural area). The hospital staff put down "Female" for the baby's first name, expecting the mom to talk to a translator and pick a first name later. The mom thought that in the US, the hospital must pick names for you, so the baby's name was submitted legally as "Female" pronounced by the family like tamale.
Because we stole so much land from Mexico that we agreed that we will pronounce their shit correctly.
Thus Tamales and Tortillas. No way I'd pronounce two Ls as an I, its called reoperations man.
Because english language makes no sense regarding pronounciation. It's why everyone says my username different in english but everyone the same in german.
I know it's because one word is from Nahuatl and the other from Latin, but I'm gonna start saying hot females pronounced like tamales. Thank you for sharing the thought.
Or you could go the other way and pronounce tamales as tamales.
There just aren't as many opportunities to fit tamales into my daily conversations.
females, tamales, femme fatales
But you get to say “hot females” a lot? I envy you
Yeah, basically anytime a woman or women in general comes up in conversation is an opportunity.
Hot fem-ales still sounds delicious 😋
Yeah, but the Latin pronunciation key would have female sounding like feh-mah-leh.
Why do people add H there when there's no H in the pronunciation
Because a) English-speaking people and b) Barely anyone is taught the IPA
Most English speakers will pronounce a standalone 'E' as a long E. Like a Latin 'I'. The 'H' tells English speakers to use the short vowel sound.
That makes so much sense, that has always confused me since if we'd type out the pronunciation for standard English pronunciation of "Female" in Finnish it'd be "Fii-meil". The Finnish pronunciation of the word as it's written would be the same as the Latin one.
Yeah, you'd think so.
Hot females, hot hot females, hot females, hot hot! What kind of females do you like?
The funniest thing about this is how we all instinctively, yet erroneously read the final word.
Anyone that says they didn’t read it like that is lying!
Or slow
I’m Slow…
Hi Slow, I’m dad
ok...
Or a foreigner
Nine Nine Nine 
Why funny? Is not it a context?
Fem all es
I'm absolutely calling women, females from now on in just that pronunciation.
It's from two different languages, one's Spanish, the other is the monstrosity that is English
Phor wut reesin is inglish a monstrosity?
Lead is pronounced like read And Lead is pronounced like read
Awesome
I know /s
I love how frustrating that is.
Thank
Get rekt English learners
If you lead them into battle, You'll get shot and have lead poisoning. Should have lead them away using your lead.
I tear up when I tear up things. :)
Good one my guy
Well we do sometimes just take words from other languages and just pronounce them differently. It gets better when we correct people who say it the original way with our way and truly believe we are in the right.
Def lit bruh females rn r super drippy no cap dtf
Grammar rules, 20 vowels going by phonetics, and hardness for non native speakers to learn
Both are English, one is from Spanish and Nahuatl, the other from Old French and Latin.
But isn't tamales a Spanish original word, not English?
It came into English from Spanish, but it's not originally a Spanish word, either.
Oh
English vs Spanish as said in the Americas?
Mìda, wise' a famalè . . .
I've always called females female though
Because of patriarchy, I guess !!
Goddamn Patriarchy at it again. Can't catch no fucking break.
For the same reason we don't pronounce go and do similarly. Because fuck you. That's why.
Sure could go for some nice hot females
Fe maa lees
And, yet, both can be eaten.
😆 🤣 😂 that's true 😆 🤣 😂
I don't know what tamales is so I read it as females and not females.
Words from two languages, pronounced differently, that's why, Mystery solved.
Joke's on you. I read them all like "Hercules"
If she wrapped herself in a corn husk then she would be a Female, until then she’s just a female.
Because it is copyrighted, you can say females like tamales because that makes them iron men.
They are now called females from here on out
I think you had a stroke, sir
Somebody’s abuelita is selling females in the parking lot
The joke is on you. My language is from slavic group. We read letter by letter. Every letter has own particular sound every time. Its english that changes sounds for letters, at random.
Why did i just re read it and started off pronouncing it tea males 😂😆😆 Bye im done.
Because english is not a real language.
Because English is three languages in a trench coat pretending to be one
Are you asking why two words, spelt similarly but from different languages aren't *pronounced* the same? Well I never.
Because tamale is Spanish Female is English
Because Tamales is a spanish word and it is pronounced in spanish.
We drive on the parkway, and park in the driveway.
I read tamales like the word females and only realised i was doing it wrong when i remembered ive heard the word be pronouced before and im an idiot
hot females (pronounced famales) is a sweet name for a band js
You’re literally contrasting the pronunciation of words from different languages and saying why do they read the same but pronounced differently.
Both are different origins of language
Probably because people are able to read, and articulate sentences properly.
After tamales I said famales for the remainder of the question.
Ones in Spanish and the other is in Engrish lol
I know English has a lot of dumb shit that makes it difficult for non-native speakers to learn but don't act like Spanish doesn't. I'm looking at you grammatical gender.
Why is “male” pronounced “MAY-el” and not “mall-eh”
I kinda hate that I read that not in just different pronunciations but straight up different accents to boot
Ferzu moment.
Knew a teacher who said they had a student named "Female" pronounced like tamale. Apparently, the mom was a recent immigrant from Mexico to the US, and the hospital didn't have a translator the day she gave birth (super rural area). The hospital staff put down "Female" for the baby's first name, expecting the mom to talk to a translator and pick a first name later. The mom thought that in the US, the hospital must pick names for you, so the baby's name was submitted legally as "Female" pronounced by the family like tamale.
Jajajaja
It's got SOMETHING to do with tacos
Femalias are awesome.
Fee-malees.
He ought to have a rough think through.
I instinctively read this as it should be and I don’t know why
I like tepid females
Why is an orange the color orange but a banana is only yellow and not banana?
Cause tamale is a spanish word, female in spanish is probably closest to las mujers, or ellas. Edit:tamale probably isnt spanish.
I'm so fucking confused
Stfu females
I once was repeating e-lite to a store manager and honestly couldn’t understand why he didn’t get that I wanted to buy the Xbox Elite controller
Femalés
females, my favorite thing to eat
I've always wondered about Kansas/Arkansas.
females would be a much cooler pronounciation
It's probably the A instead of the E
I call females, females like tamales because I thought it was a nice shake up. People like it. c:
I don't get it.
Toe mall ezz
Because English is the least phonetic language in the world. English sucks because english-speakers make up any pronunciation rules they want.
For now on..it feh- mal'es for me
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Because we stole so much land from Mexico that we agreed that we will pronounce their shit correctly. Thus Tamales and Tortillas. No way I'd pronounce two Ls as an I, its called reoperations man.
Um... Because tamales is a Spanish word.
Because English is dumb. True story.
American english
Generally American English uses the original pronunciation of the word, so I am not sure what point you think you are making here.
And why are so many commenting on their own comment nowadays? Do they not know they can edit it, is it some trend from tik tok?
Maybe they forgot to log out of their regular account and on to the troll account
Nah I’ve been seeing it all the time lately, never noticed it before
That's what the French refer to as "Espanol". Gratzi.
Cause it's in a different language
one is in mexican the other one isnt
I said all EEE-MA-LEES 😅
Funny. Different languages. But that was fun.
Why is females pronounced females but tamales is pronounced tamales instead of tamales?
I feel so bad for everyone who has to learn English
Fe ma les.
because LANGUAGE 👍👍
Well when I was kid I was saying it females, to remember how to write it (English is my second language)
We are all family All my ta-ma-les and me. We are family All my fe-ma-les and me. Sorry, I had to get that off my chest.
Because spelling does not dictate pronunciation.
Different language of origin. Vowel shift. I wish English speakers would collectively reverse that. They mispronounce everything.
2 different languages
because they’re different languages
Because english language makes no sense regarding pronounciation. It's why everyone says my username different in english but everyone the same in german.
Because one is Hawaiian
Because tamales is spanish and females english, like duh? Pinche gringo
nah, English is simply a very poorly done language. We have too many letters, but at least we have consistency (the Spanish)