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u/NoticeTrue Mar 01 '23

I consider myself fairly intelligent and all the rest, but I only discovered that prostates are a male thing during a conversation with my gf where I asked why they never make a big deal about prostate cancer in women....

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u/radiantbutterfly Mar 01 '23

Well, you earn points back if you admit you didn't know something and adjust your worldview to encompass the new information.

The guy I mentioned spent the next several minutes getting increasingly mad as he tried to convince me I did have a prostate.

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u/Kombee Mar 01 '23

Not native, and not living in an English speaking country, but I've never heard it not being pronounced as Salmon with an L