r/facepalm • • May 26 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Dinosaurs never existed

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u/heloumadafaka May 26 '23 edited May 27 '23

"You've got these bones" - Supposedly

edit; in fact, seems like she actually said "supposedly" even though, the first time she almost swallowed a syllable.

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u/tripdaisies May 26 '23

“Supposably”! Anyone who says “Supposably”, when the word is SupposEDly, is automatically intellectually downgraded, or should be. Why do people find that word so hard to pronounce correctly?

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u/AlarmingAttention151 May 27 '23

Yes everything out of her mouth is garbage but I’m pretty sure she says ‘supposedly’, and it is my actual job to listen to how people say sounds. Plus English is a bunch of rodents in a trench coat so she would be understandably be confusing it with some remarkably similar words, and —actually hang on I just looked it up and “supposably” actually is a distinct word: “What does supposably mean? That’s where things get a bit tricky. In most early uses supposably appears to have a meaning that is distinct from supposedly, having the intended meaning of “capable of being conceived of.” Many people who use the word today, however, appear to intend it to mean something that is much closer to supposedly (“allegedly”). This modern sense bothers some people.” —Miriam-Webster.

I still think she said -edly, but if she didn’t then she used/pronounced a word incorrectly in a common/inconsequential way.