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Me gustan los memes españoles.
Also just so you guys know meme is pronounced may-may in spanish. Makes me laugh every time I hear one of my friends say it in spanish.
- I've never thought about that, but that's hilarious.
- Also just so you guys know meme is pronounced may-may in spanish.
  It's more like meh-meh, our vowels don't have additional sounds.
  For more accurate pronunciation you can think of Spanish vowels as if they had an 'h' at the end.
  Ah
  Eh
  Ih
  Oh
  Uh
  
  Adding the H to some of these letters wouldn't give the right sound for native english speakers. I would transcribe these vowels using american english like so:
  A = ah : rhymes with ma
  E = ay : rhymes with hey
  I = ee : rhymes with tree
  O = oh : rhymes with blow
  U = oo : rhymes with shoe
  
  It looks like there might be a slight misunderstanding, "e" is pronounced as the e in "metal", "test", "wrench".
  We do not use a different sound for it, and it does not rhyme with hey at all :D
  Adding the H to some of these letters wouldn't give the right sound for native english speakers
  I think the only one that could be tricky would be the "uh" since it could be confused with the interjection "uhhh", but as you mentioned, it is indeed pronounced as "oo".
  
  Perhaps it's just dialectal differences. I live in colombia and what I hear daily is an e sound that rhymes with hey, hay, or may.
  
  First time I hear about that! Haven't talked with my Colombian friends in a while, but regions are indeed getting stronger differences every day although it is mostly with the marked s, c, g, h, j, r sounds, rarely with the vowels.
  Anecdotally, I've never met a spanish speaker from any country (Colombia included) that pronounces the "e" as "ey" though, so it's interesting to think how that can happen. For context, tv and people in general use that pronunciation to mock (in a satirical way) English speakers trying to speak Spanish.
- Also just so you guys know meme is pronounced may-may in spanish
  Why do y'all anglophones enjoy making language more complicated than it needs to be? Does it bring you joy to provoke suffering to the world?
  
  Nah, it just distracts from the self-loathing.
- Nooooooooo!
  It's okay... I can take it... How do they pronounce gif?
  
  They pronounce it like: "gif"
- I heard a dude pronounce meme 'mee mee' once like 10 years ago, and that created a core memory for me for some reason.

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