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>forgot to check the authors name pronunciation before saying it out loud in a discussion

>> No.11829742

>>11829741
>foo-cawk

>> No.11829748

>>11829741
>hollaback

>> No.11829755

>>11829741
>pinecone

>> No.11829768
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11829768

>baw-drillard

>> No.11829769

>go-eff

>> No.11829773
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11829773

Anton de Sand Exuberry

>> No.11829775

>Go-ehth-ayy

>> No.11829778

>play-doh

>> No.11829780

>>11829741
>came-us

>> No.11829781

Pee-urse
Seer-ul

>> No.11829783

>shaka-spuh-are-ayy

>> No.11829787

>prowst

>> No.11829791

>ballsack

>> No.11829792

>>11829741
>flow-bear

>> No.11829800

>nee-chai

>> No.11829802

>kang

>> No.11829805

>>11829791
kek, that's pretty close

>> No.11829809

Mark of a self-educated man. Means you read more than you listen or speak. Good sign OP. Correct pronunciation is for unifags.

>> No.11829813

>Hob-behs
>Loke
>Burk-lee
>Pur-see Bish Shel-lee
>thuh-ROW

>> No.11829824

>>11829813
>loki

>> No.11829825

>just kidding really

>> No.11829833
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11829833

>>11829824
I was talking about this man, not the Norse god.

>> No.11829853

DAN QUE-xi-tote?

>> No.11829858

Anglos were a mistake.

>> No.11829869

So what
That just shows, in a humble way, that you're an automath instead of an automaton.

>> No.11829878
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11829878

>classic
Roland Bar-Tess

>> No.11829911

>e b o l a
evola

>> No.11829914

>jore-is carl hise-manz

>> No.11829933
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11829933

>vladdymeer na-bok-ov

>> No.11829963

>>11829741
>cam-uss
This happened to me

>> No.11829978

>>11829741
>pronounced kanye as cane for years

>> No.11829984

>>11829741
Came-us

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11829989

slavojuh zi-zek

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>>11829741
>joise
This one hurt the most

>> No.11830012

>>11829741
>Shaak-eh-speh-are-ee
this happened to me

>> No.11830223

>Yu-gi-oh Machinima

>> No.11830233

>kneetshit

>> No.11830238

Fred-rick Neetch-ee

>> No.11830240

>>11829775
Every few weeks I relearn how to pronounce his name and then forget it again

>> No.11830244

>>11829741
>goord-jee-eff
>mog-am

>> No.11830248

Why do americans care so much about proper pronunciation yet they never do it correctly.

>> No.11830291

>Viktor Hue-go

>> No.11830310

>>11829989
Slav-oj Zih-zick

>> No.11830314

>>11830248
Because they're hacks.

>> No.11830317

kar-ol Oh-vey Kah-nouse-gah-ard

>> No.11830321
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11830321

>>11829741
>refers to García Márquez as simply marQUEZ

>> No.11830324

>Steff-an Kinj
Happened to me.

>> No.11830331

Ghee-orgy Or-vell

>> No.11830341

Foe-Dor Dostoevsky

>> No.11830367

>>11830223
kek

>> No.11830420

>>11830341
>Fjo-dor Do-sto-jew-ski

>> No.11830536
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11830536

>purposefully pronouncing things wrong to give the professor an epic troll

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11830584

>Dav-ee-deed Foust-air Whall-akay

>> No.11830603

>>11829741
>knee-cheese

>> No.11830627

>>11830584
>dee-eff-doubleu

>> No.11830690

>>11829741

There's this spergy libertarian radio talk show host that I listen to regularly on the local conservative AM station. He regularly mispronounces college-freshman-tier words, causing me to literally cringe. Words like "consequently", "schadenfreude", stuff like that. There's two or three that he consistently gets wrong and I'm struggling to remember what they are.

Basically he's smart enough to have encountered the words in print several times and understand their meanings, but he clearly never had occasion to use and test-drive the words in conversation, growing up - as in the setting of a university education.

>> No.11831101

>>11829773
It happened to me on my exam. I decided not to fuck it up and mention someone else

>> No.11831107

>supposably
>hyperbowl

>> No.11831115

>>11829741
>Hyde-NIgger

>> No.11831394

>>11831107
>supposably
One of my personal favorites. Don't forget
>turrent
>helment
>I seen it [instead of "I have seen it", or "I saw it"]

>> No.11832331

Just pronounce it using your stupid anglo intuition. People who try to pronounce the name in its original language are turboplebs.

>> No.11832343

>>11829780
Al-bear Cay-moo

>> No.11832430

>>11830690
When I was in college, I took a history class for general education credit that involved a series of lectures on the Cold War in Sub-Saharan Africa. The guest lecturer was a white academic and ardent Maoist from South Africa mispronounced just about everything.
>Abel Muzorewa's name pronounced "Abel Morru-zee-va"
>Jonas Savimbi's name pronounced "Say-vim-bye"
>Julius Nyerere's name pronounced "Nye-ree-ree"
>"Kigali" pronounced "Kigg-uh-lee"
>"Zaire" pronounced like "chair"
>"Chimoio" pronounced "Kim-o-iya"
>"Mozambique/Mocambique" pronounced "Moh-Kahm-Beek"
>"Maputo" pronounced "Muh-pyu-toh"
I'm so glad I've finally finished my degree in having others attempt to brainwash me.

>> No.11832483

>Sun tuh-zoo
>Shee nay-an
>Arookee Moorahkahmee
>Loo-oh Goo-wan-zong

>> No.11832664

>>11829825
underrated

>> No.11832730

>>11832430
The only ones from this list I would have any idea how to pronounce would be Moh-zam-beek and Zye-ear. Are the rest pronounced like French names? That would make sense for sub-saharan Africa, right?

>> No.11832841

>>11832730
>Moo-zoray-wa
>sah-vimm-bee
>naya-rare-ay
>kee-gahl-lee
>chim-oy-oh (chim as in chimp and oy as in boy)
>mah-poo-toh
I'm unfamiliar with French. I speak English, German, Dutch, and Afrikaans. Pronouncing the names of people and places in Sub-Saharan Africa can be a pain in the ass because some are rooted in French, Dutch, English, German, or Portuguese and others are rooted in Arabic or various African languages. A large portion are blends of various origins. That said, a supposed expert on the region who is from the region should know how to pronounce the names. An expert on Japanese history wouldn't say "Kuh-yoo-shoo" or "Mee-jee"

>> No.11832972

>>11830240
gör-te

>> No.11833094

>>11832972
Fucking krauts still can't use latin characters properly

>> No.11833207
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11833207

>anglocise every foreign name ruthlessly even when I know better and laugh at anyone who corrects me

>> No.11833278

>>11832430
>Mo-Kahm-Beek
???
Nope.
Mo-ssam-beekee

t. Portuguese speaker

>> No.11833285

>>11833207
This is the only answer.

>> No.11833302

>>11833278
I know how to pronounce it. The supposed expert called it Mo-kahm-beek.

>> No.11833355

I once pronounced Borges "Bore-jez" in front of a room full of people. Every time I remember I want to kill myself.

>> No.11833374

>>11829775
I too did this - in German class. The irony is that I was the only one (besides the teacher you hair splitting faggots) familiar with his work before the subject was raised in class.

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>>11833355
How is it meant to be pronounced...

>> No.11833436

>>11833433
Borgs

>> No.11833537
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>>11829741
Arris-tot-lee

>> No.11833563

>>11833537
Fellas is Aristotlean pronounced:
> Ari-stot-lean
or
> Arris-ta-lean

I've heard professors say both. I prefer the sound of the second even though the first makes more sense spelling wise.

>> No.11833578

>>11833563
ar RI sto TE lean

>> No.11833584

>>11833433
Bor-hess

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11833674

>>11831115

>> No.11833779

>>11833563
it's "Aristotelian"

>> No.11833782

>guess at the pronunciation
>some pseud corrects me
>google it later and I was right in the first place

>> No.11834030

>>11833207
>hollaback

>> No.11834657

>>11829741
>Pronouncing the "e" of "Hobbes" with a loud Italian Style

>> No.11835124

>>11830627
>dee-eff-wee

>> No.11835131

>>11833674
>les assassins des fauteuils rollents

>> No.11835165

>>11830310
Zhee-zheck

>> No.11835184

>be french
>pronounce every name correctly
>analytic 'philosophers' aren't worth mentioning anyway

>> No.11835224

>>11835165
that's the correct one.

>> No.11835235

plah-thong

>> No.11835328

>>11830314
It's a hack fraud life

>> No.11835490

>>11829780
>mfw when i had a french GF that would bully me endlessly because the way I pronounced Camus (with a moo at the end) "made me sound like a cow"

goddamn i hate frogs

>> No.11835566

>>11835490
it's pronounced kah-mee bte

>> No.11835734

>>11829787
came here to post this, one of the more embarrassing episodes of my life

>> No.11835750

>>11832430
>>"Zaire" pronounced like "chair"
Actually painful to imagine this

>> No.11835768

>>11829741
René Discard holds cartes-in-hand.

>> No.11835770

>>11829741
>be me
>be 18
>be insufferable hipster faggot
>with group of hipster friends
>ask them if they like bon iver
>pronounce "bon eye-ver"
>they can hardly contain themselves
>their natural american spirits are shaking in their mouths
>their eyes strain and twitch
>they collectively drop their pbr and begin convulsing
>their bodies melt and form into will oldham
>he scolds me

worst day ever man

>> No.11835789

>>11835770
I was most likely among them

>> No.11835801

>>11835490
>goddamn i hate frogs
But not her pusy

>> No.11836124

>>11835770
>bonny bear

>> No.11836171

not a philosopher but
>Van Go

fucking GO, seriously? at least in Britain we say "goff" which is closer but still wrong

>> No.11836407

>>11829741
>Mar-tin

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11836451

>say “cunt” when most people pussy out and say “cahnt”

>> No.11836503

alBEeeeRT caMUSsssss

>> No.11836534

>He discusses literature irl