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23404722 No.23404722 [Reply] [Original]

>reading a book
>don't know how to pronounce a character's name

>> No.23404816

Yah that’s how I felt reading A Rebours. Frogshit is hard to pronounce sometimes.

>> No.23404850

>subvocalizing every single word
LOL!

>> No.23404863

This, I dropped Moby Dick when queeequeek was introduced.

>> No.23404876

>book has character called guy (really)
>read all about guy's adventures
>movie adaptation comes out
>everyone calls the character Qi
da fuck, he wasn't even chinese

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>>23404816
>barely know any french
>got Des Essaintes name right first try just by stereotypically saying it
You gotta eat more beans, brother

>> No.23404891

>>23404722
focus on the relation of vowels and consonants
use them to make syllables

>>23404876
your fault for not recognizing it's a french name