/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15721179]

>always thought it was "denziens", not denizens
>"pentient" not penitent
>others mistakes forgotten

Tell us of your retardations /lit/

[Anonymous No.15721187]

>>15721179
Adaption instead of adaptation. Some say both are fine; many have called me a retard because of it.

[Anonymous No.15721192]

based off instead of based on

[Anonymous No.15721194]

>>15721179
when i was a kid i read something that had the word "ecclesiastical" in it. i had never heard it spoken so i guessed it was pronounced eccles-iastical, like eccles cake, and said it like that for years.

[Anonymous No.15721223]

Epitome is pronounced eh-pit-uh-mee but I always thought it eh-pah-tome (like the tome as in large book)

[Anonymous No.15721232]

>>15721179
I pronounce Google chrome as Google from once in class and everybody laughed at me.

[Anonymous No.15721238]

>>15721223
Oh god please no is it true?

[Anonymous No.15721264]

>>15721223
>eh-pah-tome
That's how I always pronounce it as well.

[Anonymous No.15721300]

>>15721179
>conviNction instead of conviction
As an excuse I can say I'm an ESL speaker

[Anonymous No.15721308]

>>15721232
I don't understand

[Anonymous No.15721316]

>>15721223
This was a rough one for myself

[Anonymous No.15721330]

>>15721223
>>15721316
>>15721238
kek, must be non native speakers

[Anonymous No.15721331]

>>15721330
It's a very easy mistake for a native speaker

[Anonymous No.15721345]

>>15721179
always thought it was egregrious
also Eschaton: thought it was esch as in escher, not eska ton

[Anonymous No.15721348]

>>15721331
I have never made a mistake while speaking or writing English to the best of my recollection

[Anonymous No.15721388]

pronounced puerile as "poo air ill" rather than "pure isle"

[Anonymous No.15721400]

>>15721331
it's one of those meme words lifted from Greek/Latin, that's why it's weird looking and sounding.

Word I mispronounced as a child was 'gauge', I said it like as 'godge' and my friend's mother laughed at me

[Anonymous No.15721415]

>>15721179
>thought “Britain” was “Britian” until 15
>used “hitheroto” in my APUSH exam junior year
>still struggle with the number of c’s and u’s in “vacuum” and the number of r’s in “occur” and its derivatives (“occurred” etc.)

[Anonymous No.15721428]

>>15721179
PBS made me think "brocktude" was a word until I was ~12. ("Brought to you by PBS")

[Anonymous No.15721437]

>>15721179
During a presentation in bio freshman year of high school I referred to menstruation as “PMS” (I didn’t know they were different) and the whole class laughed
>also apparently it isn’t spelled “menustration” as I learned about 30 seconds ago.

[Anonymous No.15721475]

>>15721179
I can't memorize "stealth", I always google "MGS" and copy-paste stealth.

[Anonymous No.15721489]

>>15721475
just think of "health"

[Anonymous No.15721532]

>>15721179
I don't understand why is it "his taking" "his making" rather than "him taking" or
"him making". I'm an ESL btw.

[Anonymous No.15721599]

>>15721532
Didn't know how to pronounce "z" (ESL, obviously). It happened at a job interview where I had to read a long text in English over the phone. It was going fine until the very last line that read something like "we have everything, from A to Z".

I stopped for like 5 seconds at the Z. My brain was racing trying to recall how you say that. I used "zed". It was for a call center that worked with American companies.
I got the job but I learned like a full month later that Americans pronounce it differently.

[Anonymous No.15721732]

"Tabernacle"
I thought it was "ta-bernacle" until I heard someone say it like "taber-nacle".

[Anonymous No.15721767]

>>15721599
so you actually did know how to pronounce it
not your fault that americans fucked that up too

[Anonymous No.15721894]

When I was learning English I used to struggle with the rhythm of many Anglicised words that are Greek in origin, 'isosceles' for example. The way the stress falls on those vowels still hits my ears wrong sometimes.

[Anonymous No.15721938]

>>15721179
>always thought it was YEETS, not YATES
>still am unsure if it is "for all intents and purposes" or "for all intensive purposes" but i believe it's the former

[Anonymous No.15721944]

>>15721179
I have mistakenly used the word “exhumed” instead of “exuded” in a lot of my short stories. The difference between these words is actually kind of hilarious.

[Anonymous No.15721996]

>>15721938
>Yeets

[Anonymous No.15722409]

>>15721223
Ah fuck

[Anonymous No.15722427]

>>15721179
My sister thought “requiem” was pronounced “re-KEEM.” Boy howdy did I get some hearty laughs out of that shit.

[Anonymous No.15722443]

I only learned a few weeks ago that the word "restaurateur" doesn't have an 'n' in it

[Anonymous No.15722491]

always pronounced Camus as Cam-ee, not Cam-oo.
by always i mean up to yesterday.

[Anonymous No.15722494]

>>15722443
WHAT

[Anonymous No.15722504]

>proud-hon

[Anonymous No.15722512]

>>15721938
A good thing to remember is that Keats and Yeats don't rhyme.

[Anonymous No.15722523]

>>15721944
> the man walked into the room and exhumed confidence. The night was ruined by the abuse of the former family pet

[Anonymous No.15722537]

>>15721223
> eh-pit-uh-mee
what the fuck? apparently it's pronounced épitomÉ in french as well, I've been saying it wrong in two languages.

[Anonymous No.15722550]

>>15722537
It means something different in French and is used much less frequently

>Un épitomé (tiré du grec ancien ἐπιτέμνειν / epitemnein, « abréger ») est le condensé d'une chose, généralement une œuvre. Il se distingue d'un résumé par le fait que ce dernier est produit à partir de citations d'un travail plus grand, alors que l'épitomé est une œuvre à part entière faisant intervenir, au moins en partie, un travail inédit.

[Anonymous No.15722564]

>>15721179
For some reason i thought /lit/ was for discussing books

[Anonymous No.15722682]

I dropped out of school in grade 10 so my written word has a lot of bad habits. Sometimes I dont even realize for years after wars

[Anonymous No.15722711]

>>15721179
For the longest time I read "esoteric" as "estoric".

[Anonymous No.15722713]

>>15722491
I pronounce it ca-mus am I tard?

[Anonymous No.15722718]

>>15721179
"niggers" not gingers

[Anonymous No.15722726]

Why did Anglos ruin their language?

[Anonymous No.15722727]

I thought marital and martial were the same word.
I cannot spell the words restaurant or tongue without looking them up.
>>15721938
It's for all intents and purposes

[Anonymous No.15722735]

I always say and write cuckhold instead of a cuckold

[Anonymous No.15722766]

>assist with editing an academic textbook.
>Get a thanks in the preface
>Tell people about it, calling it the pre-face
>Like it's the thing that comes before the face

[Anonymous No.15722770]

>>15721475
>>15721489
Strenght or strength, height or heigth ?

[Anonymous No.15722806]

>>15721532

>I don't understand why is it "his taking" "his making" rather than "him taking" or "him making". I'm an ESL btw.

You mean, in a sentence like "Although she loved him dearly, she always got annoyed at his taking the last chocolate in the box without offering it to her"?

You can, grammatically, use either "his" or "him" there, and effectively they mean almost the same thing, but technically they're slightly different.

If you say "his taking", you're thinking of his action as being a thing, a noun. So you might say "she was annoyed by his loud voice, his yellow jacket, and his taking the last chocolate". All three things she's annoyed by are basically nouns, although the last one is a noun phrase. (When we turn a verb into a noun like this, the noun form is called a "gerund". It's more common in a simpler form, in a sentence like "The running of the tap broke my concentration." 'Run' (verb) -> 'Running' (noun) = Gerund.)

If, on the other hand, you say "him taking", you're basically saying, she got annoyed at HIM DOING THE THING. So she's annoyed at him and the act together rather than just the act itself.

[Anonymous No.15722823]

>>15722806
I don't think you actually can say 'him taking', although maybe this is one of those things that has become acceptable over time. You would have to say 'him for taking' or something wouldn't you?

[Anonymous No.15722831]

>>15722726
because we like it like that

[Anonymous No.15722841]

>>15721348
Because you are an amerimutt, you don't speak English

[Anonymous No.15722855]

>>15722504
fuck
Don't worry i'm retarded too anon

[Anonymous No.15722864]

>>15722831
Normans made you write retarded, break the conditioning

[Anonymous No.15722975]

>wrote "labyrinthe" instead of "labyrinthine"
Did this for years.

[Anonymous No.15723127]

>>15721223
Fuck

[Anonymous No.15723161]

Until a month ago I thought banal rhymed with anal.

[Anonymous No.15723174]

>>15721179
I said "intelligenista" for about a year once

[Anonymous No.15723177]

I pronounced the p in 'pseudo'

[Anonymous No.15723183]

I used to say quo as coo-oh like 2 syllables

[Anonymous No.15723185]

>>15721388
kek

[Anonymous No.15723191]

>>15721179
>learn the word denigrate for my SAT vocabulary
>talk to a nigger after school and tell him to stop “de-niger-rating” my intelligence with his stupidity
>looks angrily at me like I just stole a bucket of his fried chicken
>pulls out dictionary to show him it was a real word
>points out it was pronounced “deh-nuh-great,” a word I’ve known since I was a kid
>apologizes profusely
>gets beaten up

[Anonymous No.15723419]

>>15721732
Two barnacle?

[Anonymous No.15723441]

>>15721179
Heroic dyslexic pseud

[Anonymous No.15723463]

>>15721179
As an ESL I still can't spell acquaintance right half the time.

[Anonymous No.15723475]

>>15722766
Don’t worry, I too pronounce it like that.

[Anonymous No.15723933]

>>15721179
i frequently mispronounce esoteric words and author's names. i've implanted my completely mangled versions of certain words in my friends heads and i sound like a retard. easily once a week i get a word embarrassingly wrong.

[Anonymous No.15723959]

>>15723933
Learn the IPA and look up the name or word on wiktionary. I was once you.

[Anonymous No.15724016]

>>15723959
appreciate the information anon, i'll start doing that.

[Anonymous No.15724023]

>>15723463
a kuein-tens

[Anonymous No.15724224]

>>15722713
the S is silent, so yes.

[Anonymous No.15724243]

>>15722713
it should rhyme with camel toes

[Anonymous No.15724248]

>>15721179
Reminds me of the story of David Foster Wallace told about going to college and pronouncing “facade” incorrectly.

[Anonymous No.15724389]

i spent years of my life not realising that, for instance, we say 'lesser' as LES-SER because it has two S's.
so to say 'leser' (not actually a word, just an example) would be LEE-SER, because there's only one S; it'd be impossible to say it as LES-SER because you're creating another S in doing so.
i never actually realised the concrete rule being used here, i just thought the reason we pronounce these two words differently was a sort of arbitrary thing.

[Anonymous No.15724925]

I pronounced "one-liner" as "on-liner" for a long time.

[Anonymous No.15725122]

Used to say archive as "ar-chiv"

[Anonymous No.15725135]

>>15721179
Until I saw the first Harry Potter movie, in my household, we pronounced Hermione as Her-me-o-nee

[Anonymous No.15726156]

>>15722766
Nice humble brag. That actually is pretty cool though and pretty much redeems your retardation.

[Anonymous No.15726196]

>>15721179
Used to think prohibited meant allowed. That lead to some awkward situations.

[Anonymous No.15726216]

>thought it was pronounced plah-toe

[Anonymous No.15726256]

>>15721179
I used to think OP was pronounced owe-pee instead of f-a-g.

[Anonymous No.15726322]

Used to say Molecules like Hercules

[Anonymous No.15726808]

>>15725135
>Not Her-me-won

pathetic

[Anonymous No.15726869]

It almost always used to take me two tries to spell "necessary"

[Anonymous No.15726951]

>>15721223
I knew that the word pronounced "eh-pit-uh-mee" existed and what it meant but I didn't think that and epitome were the same word (though their meanings were the same). Similar to solder vs the pronunciation "sah-der". The word indictment also messed me up when I was younger. Also in elementary school I remember the teacher correcting me when I would write backround instead of background

Most other weird ones were when I was a kid so I don't know if they really count but:
>took me a while to learn to spell beautiful correctly (the Jim Carrey thing when he spells it out helped me with that)
>remember in elementary school the teacher would tell us to say "to get her" in order to remember how to spell together, and even though I don't have a problem with it I still sometimes say to get her in my mind when writing or typing the word out

>>15726869
If word check didn't exist I would never spell conscious correctly. Also I sometimes mess up alcohol because I want to put another h after the c. There's a lot more that I'm probably forgetting right now.

[Anonymous No.15726986]

>>15721179
Thought it was excretement instead of excrement for the longest time

[Anonymous No.15726999]

>>15721179
I thought it was excersize instead of exercise.

[Anonymous No.15727121]

>thought milquetoast was milktoast
>thought segue was segway
These are relatively recent revelations as well

[Anonymous No.15727158]

When I was a kid I thought approximately meant exactly, because in cartoons and shit the nerdy character would always be like "according to my calculations it is approximately 10 miles" which makes it sound like it means exactly

[Anonymous No.15727325]

>>15721437
>menustration

[Anonymous No.15727398]

To this day I have trouble spelling medieval without spell check and write stupid shit like:
>midevel
>mideval
>midieval
>midievel

[Anonymous No.15727884]

>>15721388
>disgusting pleb with no background in Latin
puer is pretty much the first word they teach you in Latin class

[Anonymous No.15727891]

>>15727398
Even worse it was unironically spelled mediæval as recently as the 20th century

[Anonymous No.15727900]

Harbringer

[Anonymous No.15728054]

>read my ass off as a kid to escape from the fact that I'm surrounded by trailer trash
>literally no one in my universe uses half the worlds I'm reading
>get out into the world, realize I'm mispronouncing a lot of those words
>consistently outperform everyone around me, still get quietly ridiculed for mispronouncing stuff

[Anonymous No.15728100]

>>15721767
desu, i agree with a lot of english phonology, but i think zed is retarded seeing as most other letters names dont have a secound prononcable consonant.

[Anonymous No.15728140]

>>15721179
not /lit/ related but I thought Jamaica was a country in Africa.

[Anonymous No.15728169]

>>15721179
>Sword pronounced Swuh-ord
>Cadaver pronounced Cah-do-var

[Anonymous No.15728191]

>>15727884
his pronunciation is closer to latin tough

[Anonymous No.15728345]

>>15728140
It's functionally correct

[Anonymous No.15728361]

>>15721428
that’s adorable

[Anonymous No.15728979]

To this day I have trouble spelling February

[Anonymous No.15729071]

>>15726322
best.

[Anonymous No.15729130]

>>15721192
wtf I still say "based off of"
>>15721179
As for your question, I never know when to use the word "although" or "albeit". Sometimes I use it where I would normally use "though" and I wonder if that's the correct usage. I think it's supposed to be the first word in the sentence.
Anyway, I'm not English, so it bothers me a bit less.

[Anonymous No.15729136]

>>15721223
This can't be real... I have the exact same thing. I guess this is what you get when your only english teacher in high school is irish and you only see new words reading them in books and in vidya, and then it sticks to you. And now I'm an adult and I don't know these pronounciations.

[Anonymous No.15729151]

>>15721400
Yes it is a meme word. I think in Greek or Latin in would be epitoma, pronounced "eh-peh-toh-mah" and usually when these words get converted into English you would get the pronounciation that is in this case wrong.

And yes, I pronounced gauge as gahh-jj. I said it in class as a kid and everyone laughed at me. None of them were native speakers dammit. And anyway, why have that stupid u in the letter if you're not gonna pronounce it anyway? Have you heard of a silent u?

[Anonymous No.15729186]

>>15726951
>conscious
just remember "conscience" is con+science. science is sort of hard to spell, but everyone takes the course in school so after the fourth grade everyone's got it, mostly. then put a "con" in front. then you can more easily derive conscious.

>>15726999
>exercise
I ALWAYS have to look this one up and it is supremely annoying.

I had never heard Camus pronounced (and had never read him at the time) but I'd seen his name in print and so my friend had a copy of The Stranger so I go "oh, Albert Cay-muss, how do you like him?"
not only that, but this was my smart friend who later went to Yale. he laughed and laughed.

[Anonymous No.15729201]

>>15722726
If they have, then it is up to us Dutch, Germans, Frisians, Belgians (not the Wallons they can gtfo) and yes, even our retarded adopted kid the South Africa to save the anglo language. I propose from henceforth only speak in Anglish language: We shall bring back the greatdom of the English tung. The deathstrife to all by the Frenchish in a tonguely way taken over Englishmen who spurn to brook the swotel Germanish tongue of Anglish.

[Anonymous No.15729213]

>>15726322
Easily the best one.
I bet you'd make an excellent chemistry teacher

[Anonymous No.15729294]

I spelled "business" as "buisness" until 8th grade.

[Anonymous No.15729386]

>>15721179
>be me
>Dawson College CEGEP fag, 16yo, now 23yo McGillionaire
>walk into advanced english class, mandatory
>start work first thing, and analyse a text
>Jewish teacher asks me at random to explain the word ''catharsis''
>I freeze and give a shitty explanation, say it means ''t-to be frozen by emotion-''
>teacher interrupts me halfway through, basically tells me to shut up, and goes ''Actually, no... in fact it means quite the opposite, it means to have a release of emotional weight, very disappointing, what's your name?''
>''A-anon''
>''I'll be sure to remember that, Anon''
>entire class laughs at me, literally like something out of a 4chan greentext story about spilling spaghetti, hot cheerleader type girls and business school bros turn around to smirk at me
>I came to this shitty institution for a STEM degree, because that's the only place where my pseudoautism shines - but now the heat is on
>vow to study my ass off to show this bitch
>end up getting a 93-95% in her class, and become one of her top students
>make sure she remembers my name
>start bringing vaguely antisemitic literature to class to flex on her, like Leonard Cohen's Flowers for Hitler, and when she asks me what I'm doing for personal reading outside the class, I nonchalantly go through that list, only for her to get a sour face, and say ''N-no, I haven't heard of it'' and walk back to her desk (at this point I'm sure she was trying to befriend me, but fuck being a teacher's pet at this point)
>went to every class early just to show her up
>see this cute green-eyed redheaded girl sitting outside the classes early, reading some YA novel (The Book Thief)
>go home and read sections of it and memorize quotes
>see her reading there and slide down next to her, and quote the book she's reading
>she blushes and stutters, super quite shy girl, her name is Celina, an Italian like me
>becomes my first real gf, first real kiss, first real date
>meet her family, her dog, learn that her dad abandoned her
>she eventually breaks up with me as a test to see if I'll fight for her
>I'm 16 so i'm too young to know the games women play, so I take it on the chin and assume it's something I did wrong and leave her alone
>eventually find out later she wanted me to fight for her, probably as some coping mechanism for her dad abandoning her family
>too late by then
>we reconnected recently after 7 years
>she moved away from her mom and sister to Toronto on a whim to live with her boyfriend
>they both do drugs together, have an open polyamorous relationship (his choice forced upon her), piercings, and tattoos, she dropped out of Concordia
>this guy also beats her and their dogs, and she's sent me a few photos of her busted lips
>the very same face I had my first kiss with in the Dawson peace garden under a blossoming tree that first summer, is now the face that some retarded stoner breaks with his fist
... At least me and the Jewish teacher became friends tho....

[Anonymous No.15729417]

>>15721187
Adaption is used for the concept and act. Adaptation is the result of adaption, such as a film or biological feature.

[Anonymous No.15729421]

>>15721348
>I have never made a mistake while speaking or writing English to the best of my recollection
Cringe pseud.

[Anonymous No.15729423]

Chaos
Kay_ahs not chose

[Anonymous No.15729427]

>>15729386
Actually, it was this same teacher who recommended my following two English teachers - Dr. Wordsworth and Engelberg. Classic literature, and romanticist era poetry.
I learned to speak a good bit of Anglo Saxon and Middle English from Dr. Wordsworth. I can sing the entire Deor poem in Anglo Saxon.
My poems for Engelberg's class were good enough that she wanted to publish them in the school paper. I said no, cause I never took my writing seriously - and was explicitly in school for STEM money.
I got like... a 95 and 97 in their classes as well. Some of my highest grades, and I was encouraged to switch to the humanities.

I never did, but now I'm getting really into literature again, and I'm writing a book of poems cyclical romanticist poems called Stonefruits, and a novel about a noble family being destroyed during the fall of Rome, and a novella about the Spanish conquistadors.

Those very same frat bros and dude bros used to pay me at least 50$ a pop to write their essays for them, and I'd always ace it.

But yeah.... long story short - my biggest embarrassing moment in class subsequently got me my first gf.... who subsequently broke my sad little uwu 16yo heart and is living in a fucked situation.......

This is sort of a case where you can't tell whether causality will make things work out in your favour or not.

[Anonymous No.15729432]

>>15721223
>>15722537
>>15729136
It's because you assume the -e affects the preceding vowel, which it does in many words. There's nothing wrong with this pronunciation because it's still systematic however the word was borrowed from Middle French so the 'correct' pronunciation is likely closer to that.

[Anonymous No.15729446]

>>15727884
>>15728191
lmao you can even tell from its spelling because latin spelling is fairly phonemic. which is probably why he pronounced it like that to begin with.

[Anonymous No.15729458]

>>15721938
nigga i know it's an idiom and can basically be anything (it's parts irrelevant) but look at it. what is an intensive purpose? a purpose of great importance? that's different to all purposes and intents related to something.

[Anonymous No.15729468]

>>15729386
I bet you'll never forget what catharsis means now, you retarded wop bitch

[Anonymous No.15729539]

>>15729201
Anglish of that kind is unwieldy. You overwrite much Anglishness of the now-tung with the dead past.

>>15722864
English spelling is much closer to the past than any other Germanish tung's. You all use k over c, a young change.

[Anonymous No.15729555]

Lmao, so much retards ITT
English is my second language yet I'm more fluent at it than 99% of other ESL's. Understanding the language is like hearing my own native language, my pronunciation is spot on and my speech is more or less perfect, no accent whatsoever. I rarely have a chance to speak the language, most of it has been learnt through writing, but that ain't stopping me.

[Anonymous No.15729571]

>>15729539
>change
What would I replace this with?
Shift, switch? Problem with switching words is that synonyms merely share the same semantic land, not exact meaning.

[Anonymous No.15730025]

>bruges in pronounced without the s
>pronounce it with the s
>no that's wrong anon
>was watching in bruges where they say it a bunch of times, so there wasn't an excuse for me to get it wrong
>double down, partly as a joke, and continue to pronounce the s on the end
>try to justify it by saying that it's not a plural, why does it have an s on the end if I'm not meant to pronounce it
>mum mentions knife and pterodactyl
>purposely pronounce them incorrectly
Now I say Bruges with an s.

[Anonymous No.15730131]

>thought Wilkie collins was a girl
>thought Evelyn Waugh was a girl

[Anonymous No.15730985]

For the love of God I can't spell "definitely" correctly without looking it up.

[Anonymous No.15732347]

>>15730985
Definitely

[Anonymous No.15732379]

>>15721179
Not me but my Swedish friend once said apostrophe to me and pronounced it
>"appoh-strofe"
>apple strofe? what did you just say
>appoh-strofe, you know the little dot before an s to saay it's plural?
>you mean apostrophe?
>silence for 10 seconds as he realises his whole life was a lie

[Anonymous No.15732387]

>>15730985
I always thought it was spelt definantly. And that's how I always pronounced it.

[Anonymous No.15732411]

>>15732379
I'm from Montreal, and thus bilingual, and that's pretty common because the French way of saying apostrophe is ap-poh-stroffe. I'd assume other European places say it that way

[Anonymous No.15732431]

I read the entire book and LATER discovered it was Tristram Shandy, and not Tristam Shandy.

This is bizarre, and while reading the book I kept wondering why the legend of Tristan and Isolde was never mentioned.

[Anonymous No.15732444]

>>15721179
Took me a long time to realize that "indict" was the same as the imaginary word "indight" or "indite"

[Anonymous No.15732609]

>>15721179
When I was in 6th grade, I read some of the Rescuers books. One of them features a character that lives in a model pagoda. I could not prevent myself from sub-vocalizing pagoda as "padoga".
The first time I said "omnipotent" out loud, I made the classic error of pronouncing it "omni-potent".
Since I have lived in Texas for 9 or so years now, I have started pronouncing "for" as "fer", and I want to fucking die every time I hear myself say it that way.

>>15721532
This person >>15722806 is partially correct. Their interpretation of why you should choose the possessive pronoun over the objective pronoun is correct. But, they are wrong in saying that using the objective pronoun in this case is ever correct. That is nothing more than an incredibly common grammar error being so common as to appear correct.
In a sentence like
>Although she loved him dearly, she was annoyed by his taking the last chocolate in the box
The "he" is neither the subject nor the object. It makes no sense to use an objective pronoun in this case to refer to "he", be "he" is not the recipient of anything in this case. What is actually annoying the woman is the action of the person in question, not the person himself, although there can be an implication that she finds him annoying.
If you wanted to specify that she was annoyed not just by his action but by him, you would want to say or write something like
>Although she loved him dearly, she thought he was annoying at times
and not simply smash in the objective pronoun because you're lazy/uneducated.

This one goes in the list of similar lazy/uneducated mistakes that are simply so common that everyone believes they are correct, like
>I will try and* do something
instead of the correct
>I will try to* do something
Or
>I could of* won
instead of the correct
>I could have* won

These common mistakes happen because English speakers, especially Americans, conflate the idea of being able to understand each other around their grammar mistakes with being able to properly speak the language correctly. This, combined with the anti-intellectual, anti-education culture Americans have is the primary reason why it's virtually impossible to find an American that speaks or writes English correctly.

>>15722823
Using something like
>She was annoyed at him for taking
is another way to correctly communicate the idea that she was annoyed with the person and not just the action.

[Anonymous No.15732649]

I always pronounce winged as wing-ed, because I used to perform a lot of Shakespeare. I get laughed at everytime.

[Anonymous No.15732663]

>>15732379
That's how we say it in swedish. Poor boy was playing by a different set of rules.

[Anonymous No.15732667]

>>15732649
>i get laughed at every time
Are you still in high school, or just surrounded by childish idiots?

[Anonymous No.15732677]

>>15732609
Jesus christ you're unlikable

[Anonymous No.15732689]

I fell for a meme scene in "The wire" where the character explained that you cannot evacuate people, only buildings are "evacuated".
and ever since then I would correct people using the word and they'd think they've learned something new from me.
but in reality the word can be used both ways

[Anonymous No.15732701]

>>15732689
except it's true, you don't evacuate people, you evacuate buildings.

[Anonymous No.15732706]

>>15732667
Surrounded by uncultured idiots who wouldn't know what to do with old English if they saw it.

[Anonymous No.15732731]

>>15721179
more often than not i spell "strength" incorrectly. Don't have any problems with words that end in "th"

[Anonymous No.15732741]

>>15732677
Spotted the anti-intellectual Too Cool for School™ kid.

>>15732706
Well, it's weird to pronounce it that way regardless of whether or not you used to act frequently. That doesn't change the fact only actual idiots and children ever mock someone for mispronouncing things or making grammar errors.

[Anonymous No.15732802]

>>15721179
I pronounced Debussy de buss eh for a while.

[Anonymous No.15732825]

>>15723177
Ironic

[Anonymous No.15732841]

>>15732701
Wrong

[Anonymous No.15732961]

Legitimate dyslexic
Sew not pronounced like Jew
Unsure if it is "mix-match" or "miss-match"
Pronounce Zoe like Joe. I called some girl the wrong name for a year before someone realized I wasn't doing it as a joke.
Almost got declined into university because I had mispelt my name but didn't see the error "Chirstopher".
Worked at a pizza place taking people's names. Fucked every single one of them up. Had to get a manager to fix my spelling of "Virginya"
Don Quicks-oaty
dyslexica

[Anonymous No.15732996]

>>15732961
>Don Quicks-oaty
The pronunciation of this does vary. The x in some languages in the area (maybe different dialects of Spanish, or Catalan) is pronounced "sh". And with the word quixotic which came from Don Quixote you do pronounced with x like normal.

[Anonymous No.15733081]

>>15729423
In Sonic I thought they were chows emeralds, like some weird japanese cat thing.

[Anonymous No.15733875]

>>15732961
Silly anon...... it's spelled Vargina, not Virginya

[Anonymous No.15734040]

>>15721179
Thought it was "attentative", not "attentive".

[Anonymous No.15734569]

When I was 18 I got a job in data entry. In my first week I made a mistake that wasted around half an hour of time for the guy training me. I spelled "stationary" instead of "stationery" in an Excel report.

They fired me the same day.

[Anonymous No.15734706]

>>15721179
sergeant major
pronounce:
sergeant ma-jaw

[Anonymous No.15734820]

>>15721331
Wrong.

[Anonymous No.15735520]

>>15721179
I still pronounce poem as 'pome' and muesli as 'moos-lee' even though I know they're wrong. Don't @ me

[Anonymous No.15735571]

>>15729386
don't sweat it anon, everyone's first relationship is retarded and ends awkwardly. i don't even want to think about mine.

[Anonymous No.15735618]

>>15735520
Poem is pronounced "pome" Nobody (in American English at least) pronounces it as two syllables.

[Anonymous No.15735731]

>>15734706
It's actually 'sarntmajor'
Say it like it's one word
Sergeant has one syllable

[Anonymous No.15736282]

>>15729386
>''start bringing vaguely antisemitic literature to class to flex on her, like Leonard Cohen's Flowers for Hitler''
This guy fucks

[Anonymous No.15736306]

I always thought "background" was "backround"

[Anonymous No.15736795]

>>15721223
This is weird.
Now that I actually hear it I realize I have actually heard it pronounced like this before, regularly too. But somehow my mind just never applied that to the written word or producing it.

[Anonymous No.15736819]

>>15721223
Epih-tome is the based and redpilled pronunciation.

[Anonymous No.15736839]

Every other fucking word because I've never heard them spoken before. My gf grills me on a weekly basis for saying a word incorrectly.

[Anonymous No.15736857]

>>15721179
I thought it was do androids dream of electric sleep, not of electric sheep, until 40 pages into the book

[Anonymous No.15736870]

Apparently ravenous is not pronounced ray-ven-ous

[Anonymous No.15736888]

>>15721179
When I was 18 I though "paradigm" was pronounced "para-dije-m".
To this day I still confuse "amiable" and "amicable" and think they both refer to being accommodating or friendly.
get confused between Inductive Reasoning, Induction Air Conditioning, and the Induction Electric Motor.
>>15721187
Me too.

[Anonymous No.15736925]

Back in the late 90s, when I still read newspapers, I kept reading about George "Dubya" Bush, and thought "why the fuck is his nickname "Doob-yah"

[Anonymous No.15736952]

>>15736888
but they do both refer to being accomodating and friendly

[Anonymous No.15737022]

>>15736888
Amicable and amiable do both refer to being friendly.

[Anonymous No.15737107]

>>15736952
>>15737022
Well this get's weird, I think I confused them both with "amenable".