A list of comparisons on what is/isn't scrungy
Posted Jul 21, 2019, 3:50 PM UTC
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Good guide. The sub is getting popular and I don't want people to just spam unrelated cat pics.
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Okay so, correct me if I’m wrong: scrunge = the looks of an oncoming sneeze?
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Basically
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bruh that “good scrunge” cat has its eyes wide open, don’t gatekeep these are all good scrungers
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Not really, especially the left eye.
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this subreddit is godly
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I am losing it over that second left one. An absolute beaut.
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But how is scrunge pronounced? I say scrunJ but my brother says scrunG~
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Oh god this isn't the gif/gif thing again is it?
I pronounce it scrunj. Scrunjy. How would scrun-Ghee even work. English is dumb.
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Hmm.
There are -ngy words that use the "j" (aka soft g) sound, such as orangy, spongy, grungy, and even scroungy. This is the sound I use at the end of "scrungy".
There are -ngy words that use the "ng" sound, such as tangy, clingy, and stringy. However, they don't use a proper hard "g" either. They use the "ng" (ŋ) you find in words like "singer". I suppose this is most likely how "scrungy" would be pronounced if it wasn't pronounced with a "j".
This is not the same "ng-g" (ŋg; with a hard g) you'd find in words like "finger". (As a side note, if "singer" and "finger" sound exactly the same to anyone, you may be a speaker of a dialect such as Indian English, in which what should be the "ng" sound in the middle of a word such as singer sometimes becomes "ng-g" instead like in finger.)
There aren't really any -ngy words that I know of that actually use the hard "g" sound. The only one I can think of would be the informal word "hungy" (same word/meaning as hungry, just with the r removed). If you're the sort of person who has ever been hungry and said "I'm so hungy", then you can use that to imagine how "scrungy" would be pronounced with a hard "g".
(There may be other more formal words that use this pronunciation, but I can't come up with any. I believe the rapper Chingy also uses this pronunciation for his name.)
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What is a scrunge?
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This is a reference to Faceache, the comic character right?
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me to all the right side cats: better luck next time kiddos
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blessed_sticky
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I needed this
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This is a reupload due to the photo being incorrect in the previous post.
I felt the definition of scrunge needed further clarification, as I don't think I did a good enough job on the previous version of the sidebar. I also plan on starting to moderate more, so if you see something that you don't think is scrungy, please report it so that I can take a better look into it. Thanks,[ u/JustBepisNoConke](https://www.reddit.com/u/JustBepisNoConke/)
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Thank you gor clarification. Wasn't sure what was appropriate to post here.
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yo thanks for the photo having a dark grey background instead of a blinding white one.
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Can I ask, is a shut eyed yawn a scrunge?
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Another rule could be no artificial scrunges. (Which basically means gently pulling your cat's neck skin back to make them scrunge)
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Thank you!! I've been a huge fan of this sub ever since I found it. I noticed that after its popularity exploded, it started to get very diluted with content that's basically just r/teefies. Now, I love r/teefies and couldn't live without it, and obviously all cat pictures are wonderful, so don't get me wrong. But cat subreddits are specialized for a reason. Sometimes I'm in the mood for specific kinds of cat pics. I'd be sad if I went to r/blep and I had to scroll and scroll to see blep, or if I went to r/airplaneears and most of the ears weren't in flight formation, or if I went to r/catswhoyell and most of the cats were silently napping, and so on. I feel sad when I visit r/scrungycats and see so many lovable yet un-scrungy cat pics erroneously labeled scrungy. I would gladly upvote and cherish them in the proper subreddits.
I think part of the problem is everybody loves scrunge and everybody wants their cat to be scrungy and receive some r/scrungycats love. But folks, it's ok if you take a photo and it comes out un-scrungy. It doesn't mean your cat is scrungeless! It just means you didn't capture your cat's scrunge in that one photo. It's ok. Snapping a photo of your cat at just the right time is hard. I know this. Cats are mercurial creatures. You're not a failure and neither is your cat, and neither even is the photo. There's a subreddit for every kind of cat photo, even r/blurrypicturesofcats, where people will love your cat and your photography. If you have your heart set on scrunge, just don't give up. Every cat gets scrungy once in a while. It's only a matter of time before you have the good fortune to capture it in a photograph. <3
Couldn’t have said that better if I wanted to!
This is something I really needed to hear at this juncture in my life. God Bless!