====== Pasta Wank ======

{{ :pasta_cartoon.jpg?250|happy little pieces of cartoon pasta}}**February 4, 2015:** [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/122934.html?thread=631766070#cmt63176|Nonnies wank]] about how Brits, Americans, and Italians pronounce the word "pasta."

**September 14, 2015:** [[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/158836.html?thread=852036212#cmt85203|The same wank reappears]]. It's longer and more heated this time.

//"[[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/158836.html?thread=852066932#cmt852066932|In AmE]], pasta rhymes with hosta."//

//"[[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/158836.html?thread=852067444#cmt852067444|Um, no]]. It doesn't."//

//"[[http://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/158836.html?thread=852078708#cmt852078708|Uh, I'm British]] and I say pasta to rhyme with HAH-sta. So IDK what Americans are doing."//

This goes on for hundreds of comments. Most commenters don't use IPA and just refer to the pronunciations of other English words or use English pseudo-phonetic spelling, leaving everyone more confused than when they started.

(For the record, [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pasta|according to Wiktionary]], in the US, New Zealand, and for some Canadian speakers, "pasta" is /ˈpɑːstə/. In the UK and for other Canadian speakers, it's /ˈpæstə/. The Italian pronunciation is neither: it's /ˈpasta/.)

This led up to [[Tagliatelle-Wank|Tagliatelle Wank]] soon after.



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