>ESLs don't know how to pronounce forecastle

For e-castle

>>212444292
it's actually pronounced the same as "Opel" (the car brand) in the UK

>>212444218 (OP)
>Americans don't know what a foreskin is
LMAO

>>212444218 (OP)
Or coxswain, or gunwale

>>212444218 (OP)
https://voca.ro/1n0XJDmZNs3d
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>>212444360
Cocks wan
Gun whale

>>212444358
kek was going to make a similar joke

>>212444358
Kek utterly demolished that freak

it's fock-sill

>>212444358
hoisted by my own petard!

>>212444360
I've read like 7 joseph conrad novels ofc I can

>>212444392
No, it's cocksun and gunnel.

>>212444360
>gunwale
Does it mean American? (gun whale)

>>212444218 (OP)
Four- cash-l

>>212444462
Nah it means 'to shoot fat people'

>>212444458
>gunnel
i read moby dick wrong
there's gunwhale on every second page

I hate people who use the new spellings of focsle bosun gunnel etc

>>212444218 (OP)
I pronounced it like "for castel" like a retard

>>212444809
Same but I couldn't care less and I will continue.
The only retarded thing it's the language .

>>212444218 (OP)
>spelled 'fore castle'
>pronounced 'fowksel'
I am EFL and I am sick of this shit with the English language. It needs standardising NOW

maybe sailors were retarded and couldnt spell

>>212444358
Demolished

>>212444218 (OP)
>>ESLs don't know how to pronounce forecastle

>>212444358
rude take it back

>>212444809
>>212444910
That's right, butcher their language and never give a fuck. Look at how most english monolinguals use AAVE nowadays, they're completely buckbroken.

>>212444218 (OP)
>hey look my language is retarded and we have completely arbitrary pronunciation “rules”

fo'c·'sle

>>212447453
You want rules to follow because you are a German. But the Anglophone is fundamentally a rugged individualist who takes rules as suggestions rather than immutable laws. You must understand this if you want to speak our language.