Why do we pronounce communism

completedit

like commodity and not community

Smee_Again

I don’t know about you but I pronounce it like communism, those other words don’t even rhyme.

theteal

eh, what?

Jimmy Bottlehead

It's confounding nature and inability to conform certainly constitutes a confusing conundrum in communicative colloquialism.

completedit

As in, why don't we pronounce it like COMMUNE-ISM.

LuasSimon

It could be a reason to hold yet another protest ??

completedit

Personally I believe it was a ploy by Regan and other anti-soviets and marxists, to take the community out of the name. Everyone loves community but nobody loves communism.

banie01

completedit wrote: »

As in, why don't we pronounce it like COMMUNE-ISM.

That is how it's pronounced though?

Allinall

completedit wrote: »

Personally I believe it was a ploy by Regan and other anti-soviets and marxists, to take the community out of the name. Everyone loves community but nobody loves communism.

I've spent the last few minutes trying to pronounce your user name.

It's possible I will now be sacked from my job.

Thanks a lot.

completedit

There's a subtle difference. The way we are used to hearing the Comm pronounced like CAWM. At least I am. And then I thought, maybe it's actually a deliberate way of detaching it from the idea of community. Wonder would Noam Chomsky agree with me.

Just my afternoon musings.

Mitch Connor

completedit wrote: »

There's a subtle difference. The way we are used to hearing the Comm pronounced like CAWM. At least I am. And then I thought, maybe it's actually a deliberate way of detaching it from community. Wonder would Noam Chomsky agree with me.

Just my afternoon musings.

i've never heard it that way. Only hear it pronounced 'COM'

but now I am trying to work out if it is com-une-ism or comu-nism I hear/say....

McGinniesta

Gicknah.

breezy1985

completedit wrote: »

There's a subtle difference. The way we are used to hearing the Comm pronounced like CAWM. At least I am. And then I thought, maybe it's actually a deliberate way of detaching it from the idea of community. Wonder would Noam Chomsky agree with me.

Just my afternoon musings.

Are you from the US by any chance because that communism with a W sounds a bit like the way some people there say it but never heard "we" as in the the Irish say it that way.
Unless it's something from up around Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's way that I don't know about

MOH

completedit wrote: »

There's a subtle difference. The way we are used to hearing the Comm pronounced like CAWM. At least I am. And then I thought, maybe it's actually a deliberate way of detaching it from the idea of community. Wonder would Noam Chomsky agree with me.

Just my afternoon musings.

No

o1s1n

I think what the OP is trying to say is whether you put the stress on the M or the U.

COMMM-UNISM

versus

COM-UUUUUN-ISM

I'd say not using the second one isn't down to some kind of capitalist pig conspiracy and is more because it's not as easy to say.

Nexytus

Workers must seize the means of producing the fifteen vowel sounds in the
English language.

breezy1985

Nexytus wrote: »

Workers must seize the means of producing the fifteen vowel sounds in the
English language.

It would be very communist of us in fairness if we couldn't even get past the argument on how to pronounce communism

ShatterAlan

completedit wrote: »

As in, why don't we pronounce it like COMMUNE-ISM.

ehh, we do.


I don't know anybody who pronounces it any other way.


Do you mean like COMMON-ISM?


Maybe a few retards like George W Bush with his nukular crap do but they're exceptions.

dxhound2005

/ˈkɒmjənɪzəm/ British.
/ˈkɑːmjənɪzəm/ American.

ShatterAlan

o1s1n wrote: »

I think what the OP is trying to say is whether you put the stress on the M or the U.

COMMM-UNISM

versus

COM-UUUUUN-ISM

I'd say not using the second one isn't down to some kind of capitalist pig conspiracy and is more because it's not as easy to say.

Would that be akin to some tit trying to re-pronounce aluminium as ah-LOOO-min-um?

Cee-Jay-Cee

Com - U - nism

I have never heard anyone pronounce it Commun - ism (as in communion) but then again its not a word that's used very often in general conversation.

JohnnyFlash

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Com - U - nism

I have never heard anyone pronounce it Commun - ism (as in communion) but then again its not a word that's used very often in general conversation.

It will be when the workers revolt, comrade.

banie01

completedit wrote: »

The way we are used to hearing the Comm pronounced like CAWM.

Are you surrounded by Bostonians? Or perhaps watching a slew of '80's movies with Russki bad guys?

completedit

banie01 wrote: »

Are you surrounded by Bostonians? Or perhaps watching a slew of '80's movies with Russki bad guys?

Watching the Americans on Netflix.

breezy1985

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

It will be when the workers revolt, comrade.

Cant spell communism without U comrade

iamstop

Just give the proles some cheap vodka and call it a day.

https://youtu.be/vK7l55ZOVIc

I think it's supposed to be pronounced "socialism" these days.

sligojoek

I denounce it because I don't agree with it.

Eduard Khil

Bolshevism pure Bolshevism.

Damn those vodka sauced dancing bears.

Eduard Khil

In Soviet Russia I'd be getting stabbed with an ice-pick in Mexico right about now.

banie01

completedit wrote: »

Watching the Americans on Netflix.

There ya go then

Eduard Khil

Wow that Italian family at the next table sure is quiet.