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[-] Geobloke@aussie.zone 34 points 2 days ago

Please don't, I've read so many words that I've never said aloud and am 100% saying them wrong

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

I made the mistake of pronouncing the "s" in "debris" once, and a pedantic acquaintance pretended to not know the word over and over as I repeated it, until I finally realized the mistake. If he'd simply corrected me, I would have laughed at myself and appreciated him. But he had to be a smug prick about it, and now I permanently resent him.

Sorry for the mini trauma dump. Just agreeing with your sentiment.

[-] tpyoman@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Yikes fuck that person for doing that.

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I had a coworker who would frequently say "Not to be pendantic..." and I honestly could not tell if he was just fucking with me.

[-] Geobloke@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago

They sound like the life of the party

[-] niartenyaw@midwest.social 21 points 2 days ago

Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

[-] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I learned English reading so many books that I just pronounced how it's spelled in my head. Combine that with general non-social tendencies I didn't really heard or had to say a lot of those words.

I had to spell out words to people because of that. Then I came to US, and now I can't even spell the words because the alphabets are pronounced differently lol.

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I immigrated to the US at like 8 years old, I speak on a native level, in contrast, my older brother stuggles like a lot, I noticed an accent. I asked my classmated if I have an accent, and they don't seem to notice any foreign accents.

Even then, there are still weird words that feels very weird to me. Like wtf is colonel = kernel , lmfao

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Colonel is like that because English and French have a messy history and we refuse to change either the spelling or pronunciation to fix it. French took the word "colonello" from Italian and adapted it as "coronel", English took that version and pronounced it poorly. Scholars tried to re-align to the Italian origin by spelling it "colonel" but nobody changed the way they said it and it's been that way for over 400 years.

In British English they pronounce "lieutenant" as "lefftenant" for a harder to trace, and presumably stupider, reason. When an English word doesn't make sense it's probably because it came from at least one other language and was adapted just enough to fit the phonemes.

[-] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

You do have an accent. It's the same accent as everyone around you. There is no speech without accent.

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