I agree, I also think pronouncing it the French way within the context of an English sentence sounds as ridiculous as people who insist on saying ‘Paree’. Was never going to catch on.
There are many things that speak to the level of intelligence of the average Parler user but the pronunciation of the website is not one of them. After all many websites are not pronounced intuitively like you’d think and you’d get weird looks if you talked about grinn-der or imm-grrr. For someone who didn’t look on their website to see how the founders wanted it pronounced, even if you knew that “Parler” was meant to be pronounced Parlay if it were a real word, there’s no guarantee that the website wants you to pronounced it Parley and not Parlor.
ETA: or basically what Eyebrows said.
Now I want to pronounce it Parlor but with a French R to be extra meta f-ed up.
pahr leruh
Folks, if we’re going to introduce the youngun’s to the glory that is Lady Marmalade and the Truly Amazing Shit all us gray-hairs did back in the 1970s when we were young and full of hormones, you gotta cite the original version of the song by the Labelles:
I dig’s me some Patti Labelle, but the one upthread is far from the original.
Nice that they’re shutting it down. But the people they sold it to are not nice people doing it for a nice reason. They’re Reactionary Rightists to the core hoping to somehow monetize those Reactionary Rightists eyeballs to the max.
Revamp (v) to become more a vampire.
My favorite quote “The team at Parler has built an exceptional audience”
I finally got around to looking up the definition of exceptional. One is “deviating from the norm”. If you substitute that into the statement it does make sense.
So, Parler is now apparently pronounced DOA?
But they did obtain a nice roster of self-identified easily grifted far right trolls. So the new owner has that going for them.
Another qoute from the article
“Starboard also claims that artificial intelligence technology can help boost Parler’s reach.”
What happens if you combine natural stupidity with artificial intelligence?
I think they annihilate and create two photons.
I thought they created a subhuman particle called the moran.
Could be a movie script for “Idiocracy II”
I just read a disturbing article in Foreign Affairs about the potential for AI-fueled disinformation. Imagine a troll farm, but with a million computer-trolls “typing” at computer speed for nearly free instead of what we have now: a thousand Bulgarian or Pakistani human trolls typing at human speed and working for $5/day.
Sounds like maybe Starboard wants to fire up the AI troll farm and aim it directly at a carefully self-curated collection of willing true believers of anything / everything hateful. Who’ll then each amplify the message, while “laundering” it through real humans which will increase its penetrating power to everyone else. And while the True Believers pay Starboard for the privilege of “receiving the unvarnished truth” AKA being those amplifiers of AI-powered pure fake propaganda. Schweet!
We’ll see how that works out… I’m guessing not good.
True Believers can be persuaded to pay for almost anything, as long as it’s hate-filled and/or reinforces their pre-existing worldview. But I repeat myself.
The synod for the first Parler schism: