I'd ring that
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Just the fact that we can have a whole contest around the idea, and that there's still room for words contestants haven't seen before, illustrates just how insane English is.
English isn't really a language. It's at least three languages in a trench coat.
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For what it's worth, her name is pronounced differently in different languages. Whereas it's "her-my-nee" in English, it's "Hermine" (long i + schwa-sound for the e at the end) in German and "Гермиона" (Germiona) in Russian
It's "Her-my-uh-nee" in English.
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I dunno. People correcting me on this stuff like an asshole just give away what fucking assholes they are. Its one of many mechanisms that helps me cut past the bullshit and realize who is absolute fucking scum by the way they treat others.
Edit: Interesting how so much privilege is in here assuming no assholes exist and things don't happen. Try being disabled in any way in high school or certain workplaces. I have experienced it numerous times, and I've witnessed it done to others.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I appreciate being told the correct pronunciation of something, as long as it isn't done in a dickish way.
Also, *gives, *It's
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"Gow-deh! Gow-deh!"
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I can't imagine "ethereal" being pronounced any other way than the correct one. "Etha-real?"
Pretty much, yeah. Eth-er-eal.
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Guess he is a clumsy Clouseau-esque waiter!
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I know Yosemite, from Yosemite Sam cartoons
That was actually the context of when she said it - she read the bugs bunny comic books (which I didn't know existed) and said that character's name.
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Yep, same thing
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I loved The Expanse, and Jefferson Mays is amazing
But "jimbals" drove me crazy
For Ray Porter, his inability to pronounce "Archimedes" was bad enough they made him go back and re-record a book.
Oh god yes the jimbles on Mays, I had forgotten about that, every time he would say that my brain would go "the what?" It would suck me right out of immersion every damn time.
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The pronunciation guide of a dictionary is pretty fuckin esoteric at this point.
I was educated in the 80s and they still didn't teach us how to pronounce words using the dictionary.
I rejected those lessons after they dropped this on my desk:
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Maybe you can do with GPT voice. No?
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English isn't really a language. It's at least three languages in a trench coat.
it's wild to think that we embed miniature copies of Greek and Latin into English, for doing science and medicine. not just words, I mean a functional grammar fully stocked with roots and morphemes. we just make words like "holographic," "isotope" and "synesthesia" (Greek), "accelerometer", "prefabricated" and "refrigerator" (Latin), or hybrids ("television", "microscope.")
English is such a wonderful mutt of a language.
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For me, this was Ganymede.
Someone didn't watch The Expanse.
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That's what happens when you mash several languages together. A lot of English terms have a Latin-derived and Germanic-derived word meaning the same thing.
French spelling is a total shitshow too. what's their excuse? Spanish and Italian turned out normal.
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It had the quality of being awr. It was awry.
If that's not a real word I don't know what is
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How can it be read incorrectly? "Can-della-bra?"
Candell-abra is how I was pronouncing it. Yes, I know it's the wrong way
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Tbf a call line wouldn't help you in that case either, which is the premise of this. You wouldn't call about words you assume you know
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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"
it's /ˈpoːdəbl/ in American English anyway.
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Calliope
Hegemony
Vitiligo
These are a few of my recent ones.
/ˌkʌːlˈaɪɔpi/
/hɛdʒˈɛːmʌni/
/vɪtɪlˈaɪɡoʊ/? I think?
I kinda suck at IPA.
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PTSD flashback to my ESL little self always mispronouncing choir after they told me to join to practice my English.
Another funny story! An ex of mine was an exchange student in Germany (from Canada) when she was a high schooler, and she attended a children's choir concert where they sang "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", and in the line "you say tomato, I say tomato", they pronounced "tomato" the same way each time.
