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[–] 222 points 1 year ago (28 children)

I am outraged by that bone-petite. Which bone is petite? Why does their bacon have bones?!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I wouldn’t assume someone who writes bone petite would know that the second “t” is near-silent, so I went with the phonetic emoji alphabet version. 😅

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    frenchy here : the second "t" isn't silent at all, you're confusing it with "petit", the masculine version, where the second "t" is indeed silent.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I understand; I said “near-silent” because I don’t know of a better way to describe it (diminished? unemphisised? 🤷🏻‍♂️)

    Mind you, my experience with French is mostly limited to Duolingo and Google Translate - and could very well be wrong.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That sounds more like bon appétit than bone-petite

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Ummm.... Well.... Yes.....

    r/boneappletea has been a thing for almost two decades at this point, and that subreddit was dedicated to people misspelling words and phrases with spellings that indicated that the person had only heard, but never seen the word.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I always thought that's like a joke, now i saw so many americans say bon apple tea that i'm so sure anymore.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    "Bone apple tea" is often used as a meme to reference malapropisms like this, so that's probably how you've seen it used... However, it originates from someone actually making that mistake and someone making a subreddit about it.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Also, on top of being raging racists,isn't this kinda ... Pedo? ... Bone ... Petite ... I mean, really ...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Hmmmmmm curious as to why this was your first thought........

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