I'd ring that
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I mean, even if you're too lazy to pull out a dictionary, you can search online how to pronounce words.
Problem is, you sometimes don't know you need correction.
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You call French inconsistent, I call you ignorant of its rules. They are many, they are complex, they don't make sense (but, surprisingly, languages don't ever make sense, they just are), but are for the most part consistent. Especially compared to English.
In French, "eau" is pronounced like "o". It's dumb. But it's always true. Meanwhile, the "i" in "alive" and "live" are pronounced differently for no good reason.
Learning French and finding that irregular verbs are rare blew me away.
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I pronounced Tagalog tag-uh-log for years until I met my Filipino wife. Tuh-gah-log.
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IF you're thinking that's a legal thing, it is not. In my experience it's the opposite. Companies obscure their phone number because taking calls costs more than dealing with a chat or email.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I know, and phone calls are more annoying for neurodivergent people like me, although I get the reverse is true for old people. I had a job that featured looking up data and for any given active company with employees in Czechia, there is over 90% chance you get an address you can visit (they are legally required to list one but there are obfuscation services), about 70% for some kind of maintained web presence outside the legal registry, and some 50% for a working phone number. The latter two are roughly reversed for one-person establishments.
What happened is that I heard a Czechoslovak emmigrant to the US rambling while visiting his homeland that "phone books are useless in Czechoslo- uh - Czechia because companies aren't required by the Constitution [sic] to keep their data updated there".
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I've looked it up a bunch of times and I still don't know if potable is "POTE-ah-bull" or "POT-ah-bull"
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The dictionary is now online and often includes an audio recording of the word or phrase of interest. Online is not always better than physical, but this is one of the cases where it is likely better. If you're suggesting a less convenient method of doing something, it makes sense to request a reason. In this case I have to agree with the kids.
Knowing the international phonetic alphabet is still sometimes useful, when you have a word without an audio pronunciation or trying to transcribe a particular pronunciation
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I am American and I said "Gowda".
That right?
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I've looked it up a bunch of times and I still don't know if potable is "POTE-ah-bull" or "POT-ah-bull"
what about pote-ah-bull
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cal lie o pee? Think I got that one.
Haver never heard hegemony spoken aloud.
Jesus, I've been saying vih tag lio.
hedge-uh-moe-knee?
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Then can we force SciFi audiobook narrators to use it?
Ray Porter, I love you to fucking death, but you kill me sometimes....
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I pronounced Tagalog tag-uh-log for years until I met my Filipino wife. Tuh-gah-log.
Yeah, that's my favorite girl scout cookie!
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This hotline is funded by Hermione Granger.
I love that she realized it and saved everyone in book four. It was hard to undo three books of incorrect pronunciation.
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Or you can look up how to pronounce it. The IPA and often audio pronunciations aren't that hard to find, unless you speak a more obscure language
I just wouldn't think to look up a word I assumed I was pronouncing correctly. I'm pretty good at this reading thing, and so I apply the standards, but words like epitome and ethereal are just here to fuck with us.
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what about pote-ah-bull
That is what I was going for with my first option, I am just bad at phonics
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It's not hyperbole. Lithe communication is the epitome of communication.
The hyperbole is even bigger than the Superbowl.
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cal lie o pee? Think I got that one.
Haver never heard hegemony spoken aloud.
Jesus, I've been saying vih tag lio.
Yeah youve got the first one.
It's hedge em en ee. It's a weird one.
I just had to re-look up the pronunciation for vitiligo and I've been so far off too. My pronunciation has been vit ill ih go. But it's vit ih LIE go ?
Words are dumb, hahahaha
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hedge-uh-moe-knee?
That's what I thought too, but nope
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The "c" in Pacific Ocean is pronounced 3 different ways.
Great - now I have another fun fact to annoy my colleagues with.
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I speak spanish and one of the first cultural shocks I had was when I as a kid saw an episode of some sitcom (can't remember) and there where talks of a "spelling bee" a contest to see who could spell correctly, that was so alien to at the time because in spanish there are just a few words that are tricky, because they have some silent H or a P at the beginning but then I started to learn english and it all made sense.
We have bees, and we also have really long, ancient words that no one uses or remembers like pulchritudinous, which means physical beauty or Myrmecophilous which is fond of ants.
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Apparently "nihilism" is meant to be pronounced like "nee-hilism", but if you say it like that, nobody knows what the fuck you're trying to say.
What’s even the point of nihilism then
