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Posted: 10/3/2014 1:34:11 AM EDT
Car-bean or car-bine?
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bean. derived from the french word "carabine" (pronounced cara bean)
A carbine (/'k?rbi?n/ or /'k?rba?n/), from French carabine, is a long arm but with a shorter barrel than a rifle or musket. |
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I started out as -bine, but after being corrected enough times while playing Halo 2, I switched to -bean.
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If you're european, it's bean, americans should say bine.
it's like people who insist that it's a chateau, not a mansion. or a schloss, not a castle. or a loch, not a lake... fuck all that shit, MURICA! |
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bean. derived from the french word "carabine" (pronounced cara bean) A carbine (/'k?rbi?n/ or /'k?rba?n/), from French carabine, is a long arm but with a shorter barrel than a rifle or musket. View Quote -bean it is derived from the French words for "dropped only once" and "never been fired" |
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Despite its etymology, I pronounce it car-bine so as to rhyme the second syllable with "fine."
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Car-bine is sophisticated and elegant, car-bean is unsophisticated and white trash.
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People who say "carbine" probably also pronounce other things wrong like "worshington" instead of washington and "ore-gon" and "nevahda" etc
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Jesus
I love how people change pronunciations of simp,e words. I can't imagine their motivation. Carbine as in bean |
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Well it's been a while since this came up. Used to be a regular though.
I trust Jimmy Stewart on this one. |
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You pronounce the I and the E is silent. How do you people not know this?
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For those that say car-bean.
Do you also pronounce turbine as tur-bean? |
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Does it really matter? It seems like every word that I learned growing up from friends, family, teachers, professors, media, etc are all now suddenly being pronounced different. Its like someone heard it pronounced different on the BBC so everyone must do it that way. Its fraking frustrating.
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