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Let's meet those headlines (mander.xyz)
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[–] Ostrichgrif 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Molec-ulēs and partic-ulēs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah, the heroes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They were trying to show the hero-like pronunciation applied. Think of e.g. Hercules.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's "Herkules" in german, like you write it, so i don't know.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The English pronunciation of Hercules is effectively the same as the German pronuncation.

Important for the joke is that the normal pronunciation for molecules differs, even though it also ends on -cules...