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WTF: I've been saying / doing it wrong all my life - age
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Khalifa Jayy
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Hahaha that is genius. I'm gonna try that on some texts and fb chats today.
PjotrStroganov
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I wonder how they pronounce words ending with meter. Kilometer, tachometer etc.
Betta Lines
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Isn't Will's version of executable acceptable?
Jim E. Rossler
Banned
The guy from the Hawaiian punch drinks doesn't have crazy red antler hair, its a red straw hat
Misleading image.
Wasn't until I saw a cgi version of him recently that I realized.
Misleading image.
Wasn't until I saw a cgi version of him recently that I realized.
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
The guy from the Hawaiian punch drinks doesn't have crazy red antler hair, its a red straw hat
Oh WHAT THE FUCK?!
PjotrStroganov
Member
Executive. Executable.
SystemShock2
Member
I got milk on my shirt because of this
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
I remember as a kid playing GoldenEye on the N64 pronouncing Rendezvous as "Rendesvuss" hahaha. Good times. Once I realized how bad I was mispronouncing that word I became a vocabulary geek.
CornBurrito
Member
Language never stops changing. Including pronunciation.
So don't say you are pronouncing it wrong. Just say you are pronouncing it "more advanced."
Do you think English was delivered to humans via some divine entity and remained static?
No. Language has and always will change. There isn't just "plain English" with all variants being incorrect derivatives. At least not from a linguistic standpoint.
So don't say you are pronouncing it wrong. Just say you are pronouncing it "more advanced."
Do you think English was delivered to humans via some divine entity and remained static?
No. Language has and always will change. There isn't just "plain English" with all variants being incorrect derivatives. At least not from a linguistic standpoint.
NinjaBoiX
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Kitsunebaby
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eye-urn
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Alx
Member
like a lion. In Zion.
I had this happen to me a lot because growing up, I had a midwestern accent in a community of people largely with deep south accents. When I would hear words spoken that I'd previously only read, if it sounded different than my pronunciation I would automatically deem the local pronunciation wrong. There were a lot of cases where this was appropriate ("warsh" for "wash", "orl" for "oil", etc.), but it tripped me up a few times.
Probably the most major example for me is the word "subtle", which I always pronounced "sub-tull". When people around me would say "suttle", it just sounded incredibly redneck to me and I refused to pronounce it that way. Fast-forward to college and everyone around me regardless of accent tells me that I pronounce the word wrong, which was pretty embarrassing. I'm still in a state of disbelief that "suttle" is correct because "subtle" and "subtlety" still sound so much better to me with the B pronounced and come off the tongue more pleasantly
Probably the most major example for me is the word "subtle", which I always pronounced "sub-tull". When people around me would say "suttle", it just sounded incredibly redneck to me and I refused to pronounce it that way. Fast-forward to college and everyone around me regardless of accent tells me that I pronounce the word wrong, which was pretty embarrassing. I'm still in a state of disbelief that "suttle" is correct because "subtle" and "subtlety" still sound so much better to me with the B pronounced and come off the tongue more pleasantly
JeTmAn81
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I used to have arguments about this with my friends back in the day. I was firmly in the "Eye Dee" camp. I still can't believe I was wrong
. Who's this Freud guy think he is?For some reason I always pronounce horizontal wrong. I always say it horizon- (as in where the land meets the sky) al. This is despite knowing the way I say it is wrong. I go into the sentence thinking "Don't get it wrong, don't get it wrong, don't get it wrong" then forget which ways right and end up saying it incorrectly at least once.
bengraven
Member
Also, I don't give a fuck, but it's RY-YU. I know it's wrong, I'm aware, but it's too much of a habit to change. Game came out when I was 8 for god's sake.
I say the right name for everyone else now, but mostly because my original pronunciations were horrible.
Guile - friend called him "Gweel" and I called "gy-lee" for the longest time.
Dhalsim - we called him "dal-ism"
Sagat - "saggot" of course
Blanka - "blank-uh"
I say the right name for everyone else now, but mostly because my original pronunciations were horrible.
Guile - friend called him "Gweel" and I called "gy-lee" for the longest time.
Dhalsim - we called him "dal-ism"
Sagat - "saggot" of course
Blanka - "blank-uh"
Invisible_Insane
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Hie-PER-bow-lee
it's greek.
You mean "Ree-you?" I thought "Rye-you" was wrong.
Relatedly: is it A-kum-a or a-KUM-a? I usually say the second, but I hear people say the first. I think I'll switch to "Gouki."
squidhands
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First encountered it on the internet long ago as well and thought the same. It's hi-PER-bo-lee btw.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
I had a philosophy teacher than pronounced it like that.
I know that GIF is pronounced 'jif', but there's no way I'm going to change after all these years.
No, it's pronounced like "gift" without the "t". It stands for "Graphic Interchange Format" so you pronounce the "g" like in "graphic". People who say "jif" piss me off.
The one I got wrong for a long time was Epiphone guitars from Gibson. It is pronounced like it's spelled "Epi-phone" but when I saw the name in high school I wrongly thought that was how you spelled "Epiphany" so I was pronouncing it like that for years.
There is one that I've heard a number of times recently so amazingly it seems like a common thing but I've been hearing people add an "h" to the end of the word "height", so they pronounce it as "width and heighth". Weird.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I guess they piss you off because they are right and you are wrong?
Indrid Cold1
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Nucular instead of Nuclear is one that has always pissed me off
This thread makes my laughter muscles work!
Uh oh, Korey, you've offended the resident sheila. Leave the premises if you want your head to remain on your shoulders.
I'd like to thank this thread for pointing out the made-up word Ghoti to me. It's funny, because while I agree with the point it's making about English orthography, the word itself is nonsense linguistically and would never, ever be able to be pronounced that way following the rules we do have.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Apparently both pronunciations are considered correct although the creator pronounces it "jif" so he's stupid. I'll never pronounce it that way because it makes no sense considering the acronym. Does he also say "jraphics"? Iiiiii don't think so.
Gif it is!
that's sooo xili
Bravo sir.
A lot of Americans on here use "then" in place of "than," that shit drives me insane.
Rentahamster
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The person who coins the word has the final say in its pronunciation, as far as I'm concerned. I don't believe the hard 'g' form of the word is "correct" per se, but if folks are more comfortable saying it that way, then I understand.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
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I know that feel OP. A few words that I've pronounced incorrectly for years are: segue, awry and homeopathy.
And the jif vs. gif argument reminds me of gigawatt vs jiggawatt debate.
And the jif vs. gif argument reminds me of gigawatt vs jiggawatt debate.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
Why do some British people say three like free and throat like froat?
lunchtoast
Member
In my mind, I always say "paradigim" for paradigm.
edit: was 'some' originally in there?
The best part is that if anyone believes it they won't be able to confirm it since gullible is an idiomatic derivation (from gulls, cause they 'swallow' everything) and so it's not listed in dictionaries.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Nah, I don't feel inventing the format gives him the right to say how you pronounce the acronym, especially since his pronunciation is completely illogical.
(On a side note, since I keep getting my spelling corrected by my browser, how come "pronounce" has an "o" after the first "n" yet "pronunciation" doesn't? English is really stupid sometimes.)
bengraven
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REE-you is correct. RY-YOU is wrong. I still say RY-YOU though and won't stop any time soon. Probably because my real first name is Ryan.
Also, it's "ESS-N-E-S" not "SNESS".
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
It's pronounced AH-koo-mah
When did people start pronouncing it with a hard 'g'? I had never heard that until recently. It's always been 'jif'.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I think it does. This is the argument that the people who mispronounce "meme" use, and I don't agree with it, either.
"Correct" pronunciation is oftentimes more of a subjective determination than a strictly logical. That's why
Chavs and scallys.
Buddha Beam
Banned
We respect the word's French origins enough to not mispronounce it like you Brits
When I was little I thought hyperbole was pronounced "hyper-bowl".
Hell, I didn't say hyperbole right until I was like 21.
Hyperbowl sounds cooler though
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