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NoMeLx22x
04/01/24 12:20:34 PM
#51:


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I'm having a tough time with this as well.

Especially the ones saying "it's not even close"

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Rika_Furude
04/01/24 12:20:58 PM
#52:


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we're people able to properly pronounce words
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SiO4
04/01/24 12:21:57 PM
#53:


TendoDRM posted...


Yes, Boston.

Hawk, sock, rock, lock, walk, squawk, talk, mock. All rhyme.


This.

Also, I will never forget when my friends Mom who is from Waurchester unironically said, "That was Ahht was Ahht."

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Rika_Furude
04/01/24 12:22:40 PM
#54:


question: how do you pronounce "raw fish"
gordon ramsay isnt famous for saying "its fucking roh/ruh!"
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BroodRyu
04/01/24 12:23:22 PM
#55:


Villain_S_Fiend posted...
Sock rhymes with lock.
Hawk rhymes with the first syllable of awkward.
Those all rhyme for me.
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Dorfmann_
04/01/24 12:25:41 PM
#56:


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There's a W in hawk. They're completely different pronunciations.

You're either saying "hock" or "rawk", both of which are wildly incorrect.
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Dungeater
04/01/24 12:27:01 PM
#57:


the people for whom they sound entirely different, thus far:

new york accents
UK accents
australian accents

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TheOtherMike
04/01/24 12:27:01 PM
#58:


It obviously depends on accent, but a quick google of "sock hawk rhyme" shows pretty much every resource saying they do.

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Dungeater
04/01/24 12:28:46 PM
#59:


like, do u guys pronounce coleslaw with a short O at the end? why doesnt w change the pronunciation for u?

like if a little kid was like awwwwwwww man! that'd be the same as ahhhhhhhh man! to you?

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Blue_Thunder
04/01/24 12:30:12 PM
#60:


TheOtherMike posted...
It obviously depends on accent, but a quick google of "sock hawk rhyme" shows pretty much every resource saying they do.

As someone mentioned earlier, the bar for musical rhymes is lower so I'm pretty sure that plays into this.

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HashtagSEP
04/01/24 12:35:50 PM
#61:


Dungeater posted...
yea sorry, ive had this convo a thousand times here and ive heard this argument as many times. its not gonna gel with me, ive tried. your version just seems so stupid to my brain

I'm not gonna say "rock" and "hawk" are exactly the same, but Nintendo clearly thought they were close enough to name the character that way on purpose and literally use "rawk" as a visual stand-in for "rock" in like every sentence he speaks.

So we can agree to disagree. I just certainly don't agree that they're NOTHING alike.

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tankboy
04/01/24 12:42:12 PM
#62:


Ooh, we're talking about the cot-caught merger!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger

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Dungeater
04/01/24 12:46:40 PM
#63:


tankboy posted...
Ooh, we're talking about the cot-caught merger!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger
yo i had no idea this article existed

i am FEASTING rn thank u bro

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TendoDRM
04/01/24 12:48:20 PM
#64:


tankboy posted...
Ooh, we're talking about the cot-caught merger!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger

Yeah, I was wondering how long it would take for someone to point this out.

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FurryPhilosifer
04/01/24 12:49:26 PM
#65:


Do people really say hork.

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Glob
04/01/24 12:57:51 PM
#66:


FurryPhilosifer posted...
Do people really say hork.

Yeah, because the aw gets pronounced like it does in dawn, squawk, pawn, etc.
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Dungeater
04/01/24 1:00:58 PM
#67:


FurryPhilosifer posted...
Do people really say hork.
what do u mean?

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Rika_Furude
04/01/24 1:01:32 PM
#68:


FurryPhilosifer posted...
Do people really say hork.
ive never heard of anyone saying "hock" IRL its pretty much just an american thing right, particularly thick american accents
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Dungeater
04/01/24 1:05:39 PM
#69:


Rika_Furude posted...
ive never heard of anyone saying "hock" IRL its pretty much just an american thing right, particularly thick american accents
the pacific northwest accent in north america is veeeery neutral sounding, and they rhyme these words for some reason

i have an absurdly thick accent and the words are completely different to me tho

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Funkydog
04/01/24 1:20:43 PM
#70:


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I genuinely cant tell if people who say they DO are trolling tbh

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ironman2009
04/01/24 1:27:11 PM
#71:


Funkydog posted...
I genuinely cant tell if people who say they DO are trolling tbh


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Dungeater
04/01/24 1:28:04 PM
#72:


no one is trolling, this is just how regional accents are

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Serious_Cat
04/01/24 1:31:07 PM
#73:


Close enough.

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04/01/24 2:01:30 PM
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Bass_X0
04/01/24 2:27:15 PM
#74:


Sock rhymes with Pock

Hawk rhymes with Pork

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ironman2009
04/01/24 2:27:54 PM
#75:


Bass_X0 posted...
Sock rhymes with Pock

Hawk rhymes with Pork
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/525a7bf8.jpg

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2Pacavelli
04/01/24 2:32:01 PM
#76:


Hell nah
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Scintillant
04/01/24 2:37:40 PM
#77:


this is an april fools day joke from the CE discord

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bsp77
04/01/24 2:39:17 PM
#78:


So some of you think rawk is pronounced the same as rock? Lol

"Rawk" is meant to be a joke word that is pronounced differently. Those of you pronouncing it the same are missing the point.

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Dungeater
04/01/24 2:41:27 PM
#79:


bsp77 posted...
So some of you think rawk is pronounced the same as rock? Lol

"Rawk" is meant to be a joke word that is pronounced differently. Those of you pronouncing it the same are missing the point.
tbf....nintendo america is based in the PNW

so they may have accidentally lucked into the name despite their own mispronunciation/misunderstanding of the schema

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HashtagSEP
04/01/24 2:42:55 PM
#80:


bsp77 posted...
So some of you think rawk is pronounced the same as rock? Lol

"Rawk" is meant to be a joke word that is pronounced differently. Those of you pronouncing it the same are missing the point.

So you're saying they intentionally made Rawk Hawk's name not rhyme, and have "rawk" be a visual stand-in for "rock" whenever he speaks, intending people to read it and... Not think it's "rock?"

You don't have to agree with Nintendo's intentions, but they clearly intended it to be rock.

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HashtagSEP
04/01/24 2:48:41 PM
#82:


Oh, wait. I misunderstood the argument. You're saying Rawk Hawk does rhyme, but Hawk is said differently than Rock/Hock, and so the point is he's saying "rock" differently/like "hawk."

I could see that argument. That said, given that NoA is based in an area where rock sounds like hawk, I think the idea that rawk = rock seems more likely.

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2Pacavelli
04/01/24 2:49:19 PM
#83:


S - ock
H - aww - k

They both sounds different when I pronounce them
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Trumble
04/01/24 2:56:09 PM
#84:


No. Close, but not quite.

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bsp77
04/01/24 3:03:07 PM
#85:


HashtagSEP posted...
Oh, wait. I misunderstood the argument. You're saying Rawk Hawk does rhyme, but Hawk is said differently than Rock/Hock, and so the point is he's saying "rock" differently/like "hawk."

I could see that argument. That said, given that NoA is based in an area where rock sounds like hawk, I think the idea that rawk = rock seems more likely.
I am saying that when people say, "let's rawk", it is meant to be a joke pronunciation of "let's rock". I don't care what Nintendo was doing.

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Dungeater
04/01/24 3:10:08 PM
#86:


bsp77 posted...
I am saying that when people say, "let's rawk", it is meant to be a joke pronunciation of "let's rock". I don't care what Nintendo was doing.
similarly, hot/hawt

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Bass_X0
04/01/24 3:12:11 PM
#87:


https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5e03c775.jpg

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HashtagSEP
04/01/24 3:17:12 PM
#88:


bsp77 posted...
I am saying that when people say, "let's rawk", it is meant to be a joke pronunciation of "let's rock". I don't care what Nintendo was doing.

I honestly don't think I've literally ever heard somebody say "let's rawk" with some kind of different pronunciation, to be fair. I brought up Rawk Hawk because it was a visual example of something directly relating "rock" to "hawk" as if they rhyme.

I've only ever seen "rawk" written out, typically in some poser "cool" way, like when people replace S with Z yet still say s, like the Hardy Boyz. They still pronounce it "boys," but it's written/spelled Boyz.

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HashtagSEP
04/01/24 3:22:41 PM
#89:


Actually, I have no idea why I'm still talking about Rawk Hawk when somebody already brought up Sawk from Pokemon, which is "sock."

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Phoro
04/01/24 3:42:06 PM
#90:


Speaking of Nintendo, I always found it funny how people out East pronounce Mario as "Mary-o" lol


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Choco
04/01/24 3:58:42 PM
#91:


Mearcstapa posted...
@Choco
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FL81
04/01/24 4:10:59 PM
#92:


Yes.

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Trumble
04/01/24 4:17:12 PM
#93:


HashtagSEP posted...
They still pronounce it "boys," but it's written/spelled Boyz.
...these are pronounced the same, at least for me. The only time I pronounce a plural s like s rather than z is if it's after an unvoiced consonant.

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HashtagSEP
04/01/24 4:35:57 PM
#94:


Trumble posted...
...these are pronounced the same, at least for me. The only time I pronounce a plural s like s rather than z is if it's after an unvoiced consonant.

In practice, yeah. I moreso meant there is no like, weird pronunciation to differentiate "Boyz" from "boys," since I was replying to the idea of pronouncing "rawk" (when specifically used as a spelling for "rock") any differently than just... "rock." Does that make sense? Like, I've seen people spell it "rawk," but I've never heard anybody do any like, weird pronunciation, just "rock," or however long you wanna draw it out.

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furb
04/01/24 4:36:31 PM
#95:


yep

I say hawk like hock

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LonelyStoner
04/01/24 4:37:19 PM
#96:


Yes.

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ArchonKnight
04/01/24 4:41:46 PM
#97:


Yes.

Google "pronounce sock" and then "pronounce hawk"

The pronunciation sounds like "saak" and "haak"

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pjnelson
04/01/24 4:42:51 PM
#98:


No.

"Hawk" isn't pronounced quite like "hock."

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RetsuZaiZen
04/01/24 4:48:12 PM
#99:


No

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