I’m no mind-reader, but my gut feeling is, they aren’t about misinforming people, so much as making people laugh at the possibility that someone somewhere is taking them seriously. (Is that what you meant by “meta”? I didn’t quite follow.) Most of their pronunciations are too off to believe. Consider:

I should mention that there is a “Pronunciation Book” on YouTube that tries to do actual helpful pronunciations, and these “Pronunciation Manual” entries look exactly the same. Caveat emptor!

I am extremely confident that not even Germans pronounce it that way. It’s possible that Pronunciation Manual is not 100% accurate, possibly very near the 0% end in fact. Here’s them on “quinoa” (“keen-wah”):

Just to be clear, Pronunciation Manual is not exactly to be trusted. Take a listen to how they pronounce “Pronunciation Manual”.

I use Youtube’s Pronunciation Manual to get my pronunciations in order.

Grinding Nemo is the one that did it for me.

I thought someone here might enjoy this:

I don’t understand these reviews at all. For my money, this was one of the best episodes of “Community” — probably not the funniest (Harmon made me laugh harder than anyone else, no contest), but this one worked best for me. It had a central theme (one man’s hero is eyadayada) that it explored from multiple…

Saw this episode when it first aired, and instantly hated it. Years later, I decided to give it another try, and hated it even more. Hated it enough that I had to find some place on the Internet where people stopped talking about this episode years ago, just to record my opinion for future generations.

He shot his parents. Nikolas Cruz shot random strangers. You’re at much greater risk from the Nikolas Cruzes than from the James Eric Davis Jrs.

Gotta love how, in a film that involves hypnosis and brain-swapping surgery, the most unrealistic element is Chris actually getting away.

I didn’t want to call attention to it, but yeah. Anyway, sharp eyes!

“and he made some political moves that today would illicit a lot of ire.”

Get a bidet you can attach to your own commode, and you won’t have to leave your own place to take an Olympic-grade dump. You can pretend you’re flying the space shuttle while you poop. Friends will swing by your place just to power-wash their heinies.

I can be mean online too; my behavior here is probably me at my most polite anywhere. But, I suspect you don’t understand that most overweight people are probably doing the best they can, or at least the best they know how to do.

Excellent work!

I won’t try to overdiagnose this particular situation, but I do notice that lots of people who don’t have weight problems look down on those of us who do. If they are thin and we are not, it must be because we are lazy slobs who do nothing but eat Crisco out of the can. It couldn’t possibly be because the human mind…

“food addiction”