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[–] 63 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Just say ruling class or owner class. It's easier for you to spell and easier for the average reader to understand (and accept, if they've been subjected to anti-communist propaganda).

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago

    Yep. The main reason to use bourgeoisie would be to seem smart or in discussion about materials that use it or you're French. Outside that, common native language translations are always more effective.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    'Filthy parasites' also works.

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    Except vampires at least drink the blood they steal

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago

    It's pretty bougie to know how to spell bourgeoisie, ngl.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    ::: alt text because i dont know how to add that in a comment


    (grimace sits in a deck chair on a boat in the frankly nightmarish klasky csupo ronald mcdonald adventures cartoon in which the mcdonaldland residents become kinky pirates, that itself aired in a tv show that viciously ripped off its entire concept and format from Peewee's Playhouse during the time in which Paul Reubens himself was being ostracized from public life for being a gay man. they even got mark mothersbaugh, who did the music both for Rugrats and the playhouse itself, to write the score. (satire becomes reality, spud boy?) anyway i edited the screenshot so grimace is confidently saying "burgwer Z" while captain ronald mcjack fucking sparrow and his talking dog who looks and sounds like The Gromble from aaahh real monsters look on in horror.) :::

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    B-our-geo-is-ie.... I spell it out as if it's a phrase. A nonsensical, incomprehensible phrase but it works 🤷🏾‍♂️

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Haves and not haves

    Workers vs owners

    Trust fund babies

    Billionaires

    Wealth hoarders

    Today’s language actually has lots of options

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    The burgeroise

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Bureau of Bourgeoisie Boulangeries

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    The borgys...

    Don't at me, you know I'm right. We need to defrenchify to reenrichify the Inglish languadj... goddang it.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    In France, we litteraly learn to spell it in first grade. We still have the bourgeoisie though...

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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    Is this where 'bougie' came from?

    Because most people can't spell the OG version?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago*

    I just go for the term of my forefathers "rich profligate sonsovbitches" I may talk like a hick but I am learned, though I also refuse to speak French if I can help it, whole damned language feels like Latin with a concussion and several problems.

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    This is why “bougie” exists.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    "bougie" (pronounced the same) can also refer to a slender blue plastic rod ever so slightly crooked at the end, used to aid in placement of an endotracheal tube. you use the crooked tip to feel the ribbing of the trachea, then insert the ET tube around the bougie. not ideal to use without also using a laryngoscope but one of several methods of confirmation, since ventilation into the wrong organ can have disastrous consequences

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    boorish, was he?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    I have automated my spelling of bourgeoisie, as the immortal science of Marxism says we must. And totally not because I'm lazy.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Bougwahnanana

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    me speaking : colleague
    me writing: co-worker

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Cake aficionados.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    The cheat code for this is being a native french speaker. Can't pronounce "squirrel" though, si it's not a perfect solution

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  • [+] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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    Its easy: Burgös, literally translated " cage pike-perch"

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    "Hey, Uwe, how the shwarzschwanz to you spell 'boodgy'?!"

    -- Karl Marx, probably

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Easy!Lord Farquaad

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I before E, except at the start of bourgeoisie, but after O, not like IOU, such as when capitalists promise you earnings from their profit too.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Singular "porvari", plural "porvarit", social class "porvaristo". Finnish is easy!

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