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So they misspelled it? I mean, correct, it's not an English word..so if you are going to write it in English, why wouldn't you write it like it's pronounced or write it how it's not pronounced?
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So you are saying it wasn't written to correspond with how it's pronounced?Because it's not an english word
Just stop
You live in a state with more indigenous location names than most. You play this game up there too?
You live in a state with more indigenous location names than most. You play this game up there too?
Well, to be fair, lots of them are un-pronounceable in English. Most of them are spelled like they are pronounced, but it's hard for us whities to make the sounds.Just stop
You live in a state with more indigenous location names than most. You play this game up there too?
I just don't get where if you are going to take something from a different language and want it pronounced the same, to not spell it like you'd want it pronounced. That just doesn't make sense to me.
You eat juh lap in noh peppers very often?
I do pronounce them "jal-lepp-ah-no". But I don't consider that the same thing, since that language is written using generally the same characters as ours.
Also..........
YOU HAVE TO BE A FUCKING MORON TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND NOT KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE THE NAME OF THE SECOND OLDEST BUT EQUALLY FAMOUS NATIONAL FUCKING PARK.
YOU HAVE TO BE A FUCKING MORON TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND NOT KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE THE NAME OF THE SECOND OLDEST BUT EQUALLY FAMOUS NATIONAL FUCKING PARK.
He would have gotten this right on his cognative test
But not this
But not this
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A real tough guy.
Real macho!
And he'll be handling things. He'll be handling them very strongly.
Looks like the new head of the DHS.
A real tough guy.
Real macho!
And he'll be handling things. He'll be handling them very strongly.
Well, not excusing the president, if he's adding shit that's not even there, etc., but if someone pronounces it like it's spelled, that should be just fine. If someone learns English, they are just supposed to "know" all this shit that doesn't follow the rules. Just guess...I guess...
To tout being the most environmental president and then to mispronounce Yosemite in that same time frame, it's pretty outstanding.
English is only marginally phonetic.
FTFY
Because it it not an english word. It comes from the Miwok tribe
Ahwahneechee and the Mariposa Wars[edit]
Paiute ceremony (1872)
Dr. Lafayette Bunnell gave Yosemite Valley its name.
Yosemite Valley has been inhabited for nearly 3,000 years, although humans may have first visited the area as long as 8,000 to 10,000 years ago.[13] The indigenous natives called themselves the Ahwahnechee, meaning "dwellers in Ahwahnee".[14] They are related to the Northern Paiute and Mono tribes. Many tribes visited the area to trade, including nearby Central Sierra Miwoks, who lived along the drainage area of the Tuolumne and Stanislaus Rivers.[15] A major trading route went over Mono Pass and through Bloody Canyon to Mono Lake, just to the east of the Yosemite area. Vegetation and game in the region were similar to that present today; acorns were a staple to their diet, as well as other seeds and plants, salmon and deer.[16]
The California Gold Rush in the mid-19th century dramatically increased travel by European-Americans in the area, causing competition for resources between the regional Paiute and Miwok and the miners and hangers on. In 1851 as part of the Mariposa Wars intended to suppress Native American resistance, United States Army Major Jim Savage led the Mariposa Battalion into the west end of Yosemite Valley. He was pursuing forces of around 200 Ahwahneechee led by Chief Tenaya.[17]
Accounts from this battalion were the first well-documented reports of ethnic Europeans entering Yosemite Valley. Attached to Savage's unit was Dr. Lafayette Bunnell, the company physician, who later wrote about his awestruck impressions of the valley in The Discovery of the Yosemite. Bunnell is credited with naming Yosemite Valley, based on his interviews with Chief Tenaya. Bunnell wrote that Chief Tenaya was the founder of the Ah-wah-nee colony.[18] The Miwok, a neighboring tribe, and most white settlers considered the Ahwahneechee to be especially violent because of their frequent territorial disputes. The Miwok term for the Pai-Ute band was yohhe'meti, meaning "they are killers".[19][20] Correspondence and articles written by members of the battalion helped to popularize the natural wonders of the Yosemite Valley and the surrounding area. Chief Tenaya and his Ahwahneechee were eventually captured and their village burned; they were removed to a reservation near Fresno, California. The chief and some others were later allowed to return to Yosemite Valley. In the spring of 1852 they attacked a group of eight gold miners, and then moved east to flee law enforcement.[21] Near Mono Lake, they took refuge with the nearby Mono tribe of Paiute. They stole horses from their hosts and moved away, but the Mono Paiutes tracked down and killed many of the Ahwahneechee, including Chief Tenaya. The Mono Paiute took the survivors as captives back to Mono Lake and absorbed them into the Mono Lake Paiute tribe.
After these wars, a number of Native Americans continued to live within the boundaries of Yosemite. A number of Indians supported the growing tourism industry by working as laborers or maids. Later, Indians became part of the tourism industry itself by selling baskets or performing for tourists.[22] A reconstructed "Indian Village of Ahwahnee" has been erected behind the Yosemite Museum, located next to the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center.
Yeah, I get all of that, but I'm pretty sure they weren't writing stuff in using English letters and language before the white man, so someone, at some time, chose to "translate" the word in their language into an English word that doesn't phonetically match what was being pronounced (or whomever was pronouncing it was doing it wrong). That's my gripe.Because it it not an english word. It comes from the Miwok tribe
Ahwahneechee and the Mariposa Wars[edit]
Paiute ceremony (1872)
Dr. Lafayette Bunnell gave Yosemite Valley its name.
Yosemite Valley has been inhabited for nearly 3,000 years, although humans may have first visited the area as long as 8,000 to 10,000 years ago.[13] The indigenous natives called themselves the Ahwahnechee, meaning "dwellers in Ahwahnee".[14] They are related to the Northern Paiute and Mono tribes. Many tribes visited the area to trade, including nearby Central Sierra Miwoks, who lived along the drainage area of the Tuolumne and Stanislaus Rivers.[15] A major trading route went over Mono Pass and through Bloody Canyon to Mono Lake, just to the east of the Yosemite area. Vegetation and game in the region were similar to that present today; acorns were a staple to their diet, as well as other seeds and plants, salmon and deer.[16]
The California Gold Rush in the mid-19th century dramatically increased travel by European-Americans in the area, causing competition for resources between the regional Paiute and Miwok and the miners and hangers on. In 1851 as part of the Mariposa Wars intended to suppress Native American resistance, United States Army Major Jim Savage led the Mariposa Battalion into the west end of Yosemite Valley. He was pursuing forces of around 200 Ahwahneechee led by Chief Tenaya.[17]
Accounts from this battalion were the first well-documented reports of ethnic Europeans entering Yosemite Valley. Attached to Savage's unit was Dr. Lafayette Bunnell, the company physician, who later wrote about his awestruck impressions of the valley in The Discovery of the Yosemite. Bunnell is credited with naming Yosemite Valley, based on his interviews with Chief Tenaya. Bunnell wrote that Chief Tenaya was the founder of the Ah-wah-nee colony.[18] The Miwok, a neighboring tribe, and most white settlers considered the Ahwahneechee to be especially violent because of their frequent territorial disputes. The Miwok term for the Pai-Ute band was yohhe'meti, meaning "they are killers".[19][20] Correspondence and articles written by members of the battalion helped to popularize the natural wonders of the Yosemite Valley and the surrounding area. Chief Tenaya and his Ahwahneechee were eventually captured and their village burned; they were removed to a reservation near Fresno, California. The chief and some others were later allowed to return to Yosemite Valley. In the spring of 1852 they attacked a group of eight gold miners, and then moved east to flee law enforcement.[21] Near Mono Lake, they took refuge with the nearby Mono tribe of Paiute. They stole horses from their hosts and moved away, but the Mono Paiutes tracked down and killed many of the Ahwahneechee, including Chief Tenaya. The Mono Paiute took the survivors as captives back to Mono Lake and absorbed them into the Mono Lake Paiute tribe.
After these wars, a number of Native Americans continued to live within the boundaries of Yosemite. A number of Indians supported the growing tourism industry by working as laborers or maids. Later, Indians became part of the tourism industry itself by selling baskets or performing for tourists.[22] A reconstructed "Indian Village of Ahwahnee" has been erected behind the Yosemite Museum, located next to the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center.
I remember going to several Miwok sites in grade-school, generally in between Highway 50 and 120.
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Apparently there is no lower limit to the pointless shit that armchair experts will argue about on internet forums. 
Phonetic transcription - Wikipedia
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Apparently there is no lower limit to the pointless shit that armchair experts will argue about on internet forums.
I bet you miss Syadasti
"Nobody" could've predicted that destroying the postal service to own the libtards is having disproportionately larger impact on rural Americans who rely on the post office for their medicine, etc...
Ahhh... they were going to die anyways, amirite??
