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compostgoblin @piefed.blahaj.zone

3d ago

I'm bad at spelling

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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).
- "Corpos".
  Or, to use William Gibson's more current vernacular:
  "Klepts".
  EDIT:
- 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.
- 'Filthy parasites' also works.
  
  Careful there, might attract more extremist xenophobes there, same vocabulary and all...
  Which is why I prefer rich assholes, billionaire idiots or people who rather prefer to destroy earth then share it.
  
  "Corpo Scum."
  
  vampires
- We gotta bring back the term "robber barons."
- Or "capitalist owners" more precisely.
- I hate “ruling class”. It feels defeatist. Like yeah, they are the rulers what can ya do about it?
  
  They are the current rulers. Rulers can be overthrown. And I think that framing it that way gives people an accurate idea of what will be required.

- Borgussy

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

::: 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.) :::
- You can embed alt text in an image by putting it inside the square brackets, like this:
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  👍thanks screenshotting
- Americans pronouncing crossaint (kho-sant) : kwa-son!
  Americans pronouncing bourgeoisie (bor djwa zee) : burgerzee

B-our-geo-is-ie.... I spell it out as if it's a phrase. A nonsensical, incomprehensible phrase but it works 🤷🏾‍♂️
- This is how I learned to remember to spell "together" as a small child. To-get-her. Shit works lol
  
  Together? I hardly know her.

Haves and not haves
Workers vs owners
Trust fund babies
Billionaires
Wealth hoarders
Today’s language actually has lots of options
- dragons
  fuckheads
  shitheels
  oligarchs
  problems
  
  Guillotine lubricant

It's french, you're encouraged to not know how to spell it.

burger-z

The burgeroise

Bureau of Bourgeoisie Boulangeries

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

In France, we litteraly learn to spell it in first grade. We still have the bourgeoisie though...
- French spelling needs to go on a diet and shed some superfluous letters. We have a city pronounced the same as Bordeaux here in Norway: https://maps.app.goo.gl/vt11qRzt3wvzbhar6
  
  The R in Bordeaux is not silent. Is there also one pronounced in that Norwegian name?

Technoghouls
- Gabalghouls
  
  Woke up this mooornin

I just go for the term of my forefathers "rich profligate sonsovremoved" 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.

Burrgoyzee

Bougwahnanana

boorish, was he?

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

*Usanian pseudo-leftists
FTFY

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

This is why “bougie” exists.
- "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

me speaking : colleague
me writing: co-worker

I still try to use it, but most of the time because I'm mind translating burguesia/borghesia into English. Then I see some red line below the word, and immediately regret it, as my French is simply too rusty to even remember how to pronounce it.
- Mon Français est merde.
  
  Mon français était bon... il y a 20? 15? ans. Aujourd'hui, me souviens pas merde.
  Trying to use French to guess how to spell it and I end with "bourgoisie". Because then PT/IT start interfering and the word has /g/ in both, not /dʒ/ or /ʒ/. At least they force me to remember the "r", since I don't use it in English (non-rhotic accent).

Cake aficionados.

Is this where 'bougie' came from?
Because most people can't spell the OG version?

Boojoys

"Hey, Uwe, how the shwarzschwanz to you spell 'boodgy'?!"
-- Karl Marx, probably

Borgwazee

Its easy: Burgös, literally translated " cage pike-perch"

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

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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