Just looking at it doesn't even really do it justice, because like, obviously it's big, but your brain thinks it's much closer and smaller than it actually is until you start using binoculars or something to spot the climbers on it.
How your nails the parking lots are always crowded there in the summer. Plus there's a lot of illegal campers around here in neighborhoods Etc and they've been cracking down on it the last year.
In the fall and winter it's still pretty dead and you can have the place to yourselves. Spring and summer, not so much. I go at least 2-3 times a year.
Dude, these days they regularly close the access to the valley if it’s too many tourists (=cars). Those outside can drive around in circles and congest the one road.
So I was going to say, every time, *every damn time* I see that word, my brain has to mispronounce it internally, just for funsies. It's like an in-joke, only I don't know the context.
I lived and worked in Yosemite for 5 years in the early 2000's and those of us that lived there referred to ourselves as Yosemites, pronounced like vegemite.
it's just not really an english word, like many place names in north america it's a variation on an indigenous word (for 'grizzly bear'); our spelling of such words is nonsense though, yeah, yosemitty was right there the whole time.
Lived in NYC for a few years. When I first moved there, asked someone where Houston street was. People jumped all over me. It’s not pronounced like the city, it’s pronounced House-ton
Endocrom
nuclearmomm
Took my breath away first time I was there in 1980. Still get breathless every time we go. Just a supremely peaceful place.😎
SithElephant
11wasaracehorse22was121111race1dayn22112
I have trouble with the correct pronunciation and have the urge to read it as Yo-sem-ite. I’ll get my coat.
dheathd65
Remember when Trump pronounced this "Yo-sem-ite"
Jaqdakloun
Excellent shot
Derfboy
Sam
snrsquishy101
Yup, that's a rock
CrimeThinker
Just looking at it doesn't even really do it justice, because like, obviously it's big, but your brain thinks it's much closer and smaller than it actually is until you start using binoculars or something to spot the climbers on it.
Drix1942
And to think that it's just a tiny speck of dust on a tiny speck of dust floating in the humongulongudousness of...
thegreatmika
Rock solid content
slaytrain
Oh captain my captain
KILLERCHROMATIC
That’s not real is it?
SwissScars
Where's Sam?
IlTerribile
fridaynightfajitas
Beautiful
NewFrontiers365
Stop the car!
ErniesWidow
ScorpionSage
It looks unreal, like it’s anime
ramblercomet5772
Junktrunkjunkie
ramblercomet5772
Nicely done.
Sinasohn
My happy place.
YonderPeachTree
wow I havent been there since i was a kid and I just got yeeted in the face with good blurry memories of being up there... somewhere
Bugguts1957
Very nice thanks
whataluckygoldfish
Holy shit that’s magnificent!!
hartm08260
What’s a yo-se-mite?
lelindepage
hightechpirate
Is that half dome or El Cap?
annadewitt77
With a nose like that, it's El Cap for sure!
TheBigMcC
I get that reference +1…. Definitely the prow or ‘The Nose’ of El Cap.
jesuisgur
El Cap. No road below ½ Dome. Climbed both...
thatwoodguy
I live 3/4 mike from the Stahamus chief
imjustheretocrush
I would love to climb the chief! Some day I'll make it to Squamish!
thatwoodguy
How your nails the parking lots are always crowded there in the summer. Plus there's a lot of illegal campers around here in neighborhoods Etc and they've been cracking down on it the last year.
RagnartheCat
does anyone else pronounce it yo-sem-ite?
gsmdo
Trump?
ilasid
Yo-zee-mite
bladderinfection
Visiting in the 80’s & early 90’s it was like we had the place to ourselves. I doubt it will be like that again.
duhqueenmoki
In the fall and winter it's still pretty dead and you can have the place to yourselves. Spring and summer, not so much. I go at least 2-3 times a year.
HFlashman
Dude, these days they regularly close the access to the valley if it’s too many tourists (=cars). Those outside can drive around in circles and congest the one road.
lrateyourrig
Hike it an hour before sunset. You'll be all by yourself. My cousin and i did Glacier Point to LYV overnight. We were the first ones up HD.
downvoteifyouhatekittens
But what about sleep?
genericanamoly
Fuck sleep do crack.
genericanamoly
Shit */s
Sneemaster
You ever pronounce Yosemite like the way you pronounce Vegemite just to annoy people?
Volimar
I do it every time I read it.
GlowstickJedi
You mean sound like an anti-Yosemite.
GrandPubabofMoldistan
Permission to call this the true land of Judasism. I shall create a religion of the Mormons of Judaism
gumshoe99
I read it that way in my head and it pisses me off.
ExistentialDreadlocks
You mean Veeg-mi-tee?
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
Yose mite, but then again, Yose might not.
thereitis101
Like Trump did
jacblake
WorstWurst
Now I do.
Frederf
Hey now you get to call it one-eight-hundred tequila too.
JagManNZ
Didn’t Trump do that once?
Yupurineutah
ablamboo2
I always pronounced Mojave like Rogain just to elicit reactions from people.
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
When young Americans ... gaze upon Yo Semite’s — Yo Semite’s towering sequoias, their love of country grows stronger --Yammering Yam
travishawkins2199
I was doing it in my head as I read your comment.
azarza
TIL i have been annoying people every time i talk about Yosemite
WorkerLurker
All the time. Used to live 2 hours from yo sim aight
doppelfisch
So I was going to say, every time, *every damn time* I see that word, my brain has to mispronounce it internally, just for funsies. It's like an in-joke, only I don't know the context.
ThePostWasExactlyThat
Absafruitly
Whoevertore
I did yesterday!
8bitmurphy
I find it satisfying to intentionally pronounce the k in knife, when around others. It's the little things.
MonkeyFunkingFunker
I knew how to pronounce it from Bugs Bunny cartoons. However, I did not put that pronunciation to the actual spelling for many years.
blumbrothersgin4ever
Now I do.
Narsuaq
Tbh, I always thought it was pronounced Yose-Mite as opposed to Yo-Si-Dosey-Sippit-ity-Fiff-Niffity-Yo-Sammity-Sam
StenYngve
That's how I greet my local rabbi
Nykidemus
this guy gets it
ScorpionSage
YES
NuclearGradeIrony
I'd go Yo's-might.
NothingNothingNothingTraLaLa
I lived and worked in Yosemite for 5 years in the early 2000's and those of us that lived there referred to ourselves as Yosemites, pronounced like vegemite.
BISHPLEEASE
yo-see-might
jaggcomputing5
Mostly.
IfIfitsItits
So how do you pronounce it? Like a mexican mite, named José?
Garadur
I think it's Yossemmitty
ReverseSyzygy
Yoh-seh-mih-tee
SecondSince
I Yosemite, or i Yosemite not. What's it to you?
Nykidemus
I pronounce it "Yo semite!" Like I'm greeting a group of rabbis in a casual fashion.
ZiomalZParafii
Ah, famous consistency of English pronunciation. As a non native I would read that as "yo-se-mite" as in "might". TIL that would be wrong.
acuteavocado7
wait so yo-se-mi-tee is correct? i was told that was a meme
Sneemaster
yep, that's how you pronounce it. Yo Se Mi Tee.
OlaphOfTheNorth
it's just not really an english word, like many place names in north america it's a variation on an indigenous word (for 'grizzly bear'); our spelling of such words is nonsense though, yeah, yosemitty was right there the whole time.
ZiomalZParafii
That's a fair point, didn't think that those are just borrowed words, like pâté ;-)
Chronomechanist
No, but I am going to start pronouncing Vegemite and Marmite like you pronounce Yosemite
blissblush
Want some Veg-em-itee on your toast?
igglebotato
no
SecondSince
That is the correct answer!
naught101
Veg-i-mi-tee
spict
n-ought-un-oh-un
deadpoolislovedeadpoolislife
Stuey1221
I used to pronounce it yo-se-mite. I am from UK so also pronounced Arkansas as Ar-Kansas. Had to ask where arkensaw was
Bigcurly2000
Me too!
Myowngrampa
I usually just pretend Arkansas doesn't exist
ExistentialDreadlocks
I ask for the way to Kansaw City, Kansaw just to annoy people.
thereitis101
Lived in NYC for a few years. When I first moved there, asked someone where Houston street was. People jumped all over me. It’s not pronounced like the city, it’s pronounced House-ton
GabbyJayYay
If you wanna piss off people from massachussettses-- say their cities/towns the way it's spelled
bayesiancuttlefish
Gloucester
azarza
'are you a massachussevite, or massachussevitian?'
TeamSpicyTacos
Excuse me we are proudly known as massholes thank you.
Stuey1221
Gonna need an example
TeamSpicyTacos
Worcester Peabody
Myowngrampa
Sauce
DocAqua
Wait until you hear about Ory-gun.
Stuey1221
I think that may be an accent thing as opposed to just not saying the word as it’s spelt.
DocAqua
That's a colloquialism, yeah, but it's also how native Oregonians (like me) pronounce it.
Theory89
Huh. My brothers wife is from Portland and she says Or-a-gun. Maybe Or-u-gun.