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3852792 No.3852792 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw you mispronounce a word and somebody calls you out on it

Tell me her name, /lit/, the word you mangled.

>> No.3852797

"Puh-suede-o-nym" was the first way I ever pronounced pseudonym when I was like twelve years old my Dad and brother were laughing like banshees at that one. I don't really mispronounce things anymore and if I do, nobody calls me out on it.

The funniest mispronunciation I've ever heard, though, was a classmate who, while giving a speech, pronounced "fatigued" as "fat-ee-gywed"

>> No.3852800

epitome.

I pronounced it as "epi-tome"

>> No.3852804

"Mead" rhymes with "dead".

>> No.3852805

>tfw you go from being the person being corrected to the person who makes the corrections

we're all gonna make it brahs

>> No.3852811

Aesthetic.

I said "aye-ess-thetic"

>> No.3852816

i moved to america when i was 12, my english is pretty good but I called the pop-metal band metallica "metal-lick-a"

>> No.3852822

>tfw you talk to somebody who very clearly learned certain words on internet forums

"He's such a BEE-ta (beta) fag. I mean, not to sound like an EL-a-tist (elitist), but I must lam-BAST (lambaste) him."

>> No.3852832

>>3852804
is this true? my word.

"[pronunciation]" [correction]:
"sherbert" sherbet
"Tiajuana" Tijuana
"tenderhooks" tenterhooks
"triathalon" triathlon
"verbage" verbiage
"yoke" yolk
"zuology" zoology

>> No.3852835

>>3852832
oh, nevermind, to 804.
i thought you were likening its pronunciation to 'read' (past tense,) rather than 'read' (present tense.)

>> No.3852836

ex-ist-en-tea-ally
maximum blush

>> No.3852837

>>3852835
wait. what?
dead not read.
i'm tired.
i'm sorry 804, but i think mead is pronounced not "med" but "meed"

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3852905

One time I called the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, [Gib-luh-tar]. I was in intelligent company.

>the shame

>> No.3852923

>>3852792
My mother, Sarah
>faycade
not my fault I'd never seen it with a cedilla

>> No.3852929

When I was in fourth grade I pronounced RENDEZVOUS
Ren dezz voos

>> No.3852932

>>3852792
annihilate (voiced the h)
participle (stressed the second syllable)
>>3852822
I think that's the correct pronunciation of lambaste.

>> No.3852939

>>3852800
fiona?

>> No.3852941

Probably Neeheelist

>> No.3852947

I try not to use words that I don't know how to pronounce. When you learn a word, you should learn spelling, pronunciation, meaning and even perhaps the etymology.
I do, however, often get confused looks when I pronounce foreign loans according to their native phonology.

>> No.3852975

>>3852947
You there. Don't do that shit! When a language adopts a word, it usually adapts it using it's own sounds. Pronouncing things in a way people won't understand is just dumb. It's not just an "ignorant english speaker" thing, it happens across most languages where words are borrowed.
for an example from another language, take the italian word(s) "slow food". it's an italian word as is, (obviously not an english one, though "fast food" is) used in a sentence such as "mangiamo slow food stanotte". however because of the way italian phonology works, it's usually pronounced as "zlou fud" - if someone who speaks english learns italian and tries to say it, pronouncing it as in english, italian speakers get fucking confused and have no idea what they are on about.
same goes for english. especially french words. people who don't know much french don't get how retarded french sounds are, and probably don't realize "laissez faire" is pronounced "lu-say fair"

tl,dr: etymology != current word

>> No.3852977

>sometimes say answer (ahnsa) like an uneducated swine "airsnsa"
>sometimes say chance "chahns" like an uneducated swine
>not full exploding ts even when its in the most awkward word combinations (before th, b, m, w are most difficult)
>not emphasising the proper words
>being too emotional

oh the things to worry about

>> No.3852982

>>3852792
Parochial...
I said... pariochal.

>> No.3852987

>>3852941
I still say neeheelist. Being Australian, I just can't be expected to bother with pulling my way all the way up to those high i's, when dictionary.com expresses its full respect for my pronunciation as is.

>> No.3852992

My literary theory professor pronounces Nietzsche neechee. I can't believe she managed to get a PhD without anyone correcting her.

>> No.3852994

nee-hee-list

>> No.3853186

allegory, like gregory
my boss was very unimpressed

>> No.3853187

>>3852822
That is how you pronounce lambaste.

Laembaest

>> No.3853195

>espionage
ess-po-nee-aj
I was doing a quick comedic drama piece and I was wondering why they were laughing when the joke was in the next line.

>> No.3853197

>>3852792
I STILL pronunciate 'dough' as like it rhymes with 'enough',,or 'rough', or 'stough', because it SHOOD.

>> No.3853200

>>3852987
this is cute.

>> No.3853206

>>3852804
That's an archaic pronunciation. Kinda how everyone pronounces herb with the h sound instead of 'erb'

>> No.3853211

>>3852987
I've heard professors say nee-a-list in addition to the way you say it.

>> No.3853215

>>3852992
That's just the Americanized version. Sartre gets pronounced as 'Sart'. I'm in Canada so I hear it correctly maybe half of the time.

>> No.3853218

>>3852792
I'm sure there have been plenty of words that I've mispronounced but no one's called me out on it, with the exception of some made up words from fantasy series.

Oh, I properly pronounced Hermione herm-eye-oh-knee and got called out in school. Everyone else called her her-me-wun

>> No.3853219
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3853219

When I first heard someone mispronounce
Archetype as Arch-Type, I was thrown into doubt, I was proved right eventually, but at first I was so confused, "do I have it wrong, or does he?"

I remember once in science class, these two girls were giving a report on buoyancy and mispronouncing Archimedes, Arch-emedes, I corrected them as politely as I could, (slipping the right pronunciation into a question), but I hope I didn't embarrass them by correcting them.
I wouldn't have known the right pronunciation either except for "The Sword in the Stone" and my weird eidetic memory.

>> No.3853228

Kind of unrelated, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone mispronounce the "eu" sound in words like "Freud". The one time someone I know didn't know how to say it, they just called him "that dicks psychologist"

>> No.3853252

When I was a kid I pronounced etc "ettuck"

>> No.3853265

>tfw live in area full of stupid and illiterate people
>pronounce a word correctly and get mocked for it

>> No.3853274

>>3853265
>be that autist
>get mad

>> No.3853329

>guy from university i was friends with comes to visit after a long while
>keeps talking about how everything is based on "pressed positions"
>says he read it in a book
>think it's some strange pop-philosophy that he read about and mostly ignore it because the rest of what he derives from these "pressed positions" are kooky as fuck
>towards the end of his stay, realize he meant "presuppositions"
>be like what nigger, you are wrong about everything and should feel bad

if you don't know how to pronounce a word, you should say so, not pretend like you do

>> No.3853345

Remember when we studied vocabulary? When that was all there was to the assignments? Way back in grade school?
Why did we stop doing that again?

>> No.3853346

espionage.
I pronounced it "espon-yage" for many years, until I heard it spoken correctly on TV. Felt pretty dumb after that. The problem is too much reading and not enough talking, in my opinion

>> No.3853365

>>3853329
It isn't that simple. What I read just falls into my daily vocabulary and so it should. And 99 times out 100 the new words are pronounced correctly and my head and add a richness to my vocabulary. However, every once in a while, I'll mispronounce a word in my head and that will cause a flaw in my language. I'm not trying to show off. It just happens sometimes.

>> No.3853375

>>3852792
apparently, it is the norm to say
'too-lip' as opposed to my usual way of 'tuhlip'.

When I was 10, I'd say Broccoli, normally pronounced as 'brock-li', as 'bro-co-li'. My friend was nice at the time and said it would be a cool way to pronounce it.

>> No.3853392

Pronounced Dostoevsky as Dostovski, which is how you would say it in Danish.

In Danish, he's spelled Dostojevskij, which makes it easier to pronounce. I had only seen seen his name in the English version at the time.

>> No.3853393

aeyrie: eye-ree instead of eerie
also, catenary always fucks me up because it's pronounced like I usually pronounce words, with emphasis on the first syllable, however it seems like there's always an emphasis on the middle syllable, so I feel inclined to say cuh-TEN-aree even though it's CAT-unaree. Despite trying to remember it's like cat and canary, still.

Then there are those people who say kuhTEENahrie, which is just bad...

>> No.3853398

>>3853375
The o is so low key that you can get away with brock-li

>> No.3853407

Statistician always wins. Not really misprouncing, but it's impossible for me to say without stumbling,
Must be terrible if you have a lisp.

>> No.3853409

>>3852987
How do you pronounce Neil?
inb4 "Bruce".

>> No.3853412

>>3853407
Stadt ist Tischen

>> No.3853414

>>3853398
The norm is Brockli, no?

>> No.3853416

>>3853414
That's a little like saying liberry. Sounds infantile/cutesy.

>> No.3853420

>>3853365
except that anybody who isn't an idiot should be able to pronounce 'presuppositions' after their first reading; 'pre - sup - positions'; it's amazingly easy.

>> No.3853421

>>3853414
>>3853416
I think it's an American thing. Slashing them syllables.

>> No.3853423

>>3853412
clever

>> No.3853424

>>3853421
I think it's the glottal thing. When I say it, I put in a glottal stop for the second o, Americans tend not to use glottal stops at all.

>> No.3853431

>>3853423
You just have to pretend that Germans don't do the sh thing before ts, or that you're Dutch.

Shtop shtop shtop

>> No.3853435

Camus. All the letters.
Still do, just without shame

>> No.3853436

>>3853392
Originally, I would pronounce it as 'Dostövsky'. I don't think anybody noticed.

>> No.3853437

>>3853435
>without shame
Really? 'Cay-Muss', really?

>> No.3853439

>>3853424
Using adverbs correctly is real hard as well.

>> No.3853446

>>3853437
Cam Mus.
Shame's kind of hard to muster these days. Oh well.

>> No.3853448

>>3853446
>>3853437
But Cahhhm-MOOuhh is so much more fun to say.
Caymuss sounds like Cleetus.
Are you Australian?

>> No.3853453

>>3852800
oh god, me too

>> No.3853454

>>3853448
Not Australian. I do however like to tell people that Cahm Moo is obviously a lactating dromedary, which I think is far more fun than talking about Cam Mus

>> No.3853457

>>3853439
I see what you mean. He ate broccoli.

>> No.3853459

>>3852837
>804
What does this mean?

>> No.3853463

>>3853459
Some people can extrapolate from incomplete data,

>> No.3853464

@3853463
Some people somehow manage to fuck up the quoting system.

>> No.3853465

>>3853206
I pronounce it erb, I haven't noticed anyone pronouncing it herb actually.

>> No.3853466

>>3853454
Can camels moo? They do that weird snort/groan thing. Can-moo

>> No.3853472

>>3853465
Only tangentially related, but anyway:
I hate when people use an in a word with an aspirated H. an history, eugh.

>> No.3853473

>>3853463
Not me apparently.

>> No.3853478

>>3853473
It's the last three numbers of the post they're talking about/too

>> No.3853494

When i was younger i pronounced the word melee as me-lee rather than meh-lay

Got laughed at a lot for that when i said it out loud

>> No.3853499

>>3853494
I still mentally pronounce it as may-lay

>> No.3853511

>meme
même

>mores
[-s]mores

>> No.3853518

>>3853494
Nothing better than moving to a new school and trying to make friends by asking, "Hey have you guys played that new game super smash bros me-lee?"

>> No.3853520

>>3853478
Thanks

>> No.3853524

>>3853424
Out in the West of America, around the Rocky Mountains, we actually use glottal stops a lot, but not in the same places as Brits. For example, people tend to say "moun'-in" rather than "mount-in." However, we don't pronounce "bottle" with any glottal stops.

>> No.3853527

>>3852792
I always pronounced Portugal "Port-a-gull" until I was corrected

>> No.3853528
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3853528

>>3852792

linear

i pronounced it "lin-ee-er" instead of "li-neer"

>> No.3853529

>>3853518
God, the situation was similar to this. I was asking friends at school something about video games when i said mee-lee.

>> No.3853530

I say plenny instead of plenty, but I suppose that's more of a regional dialect thing than anything else.

>> No.3853537

>>3853528
Who the fuck says lineer?

>> No.3853538

>>3852800
I'm not a native English speaker and I pronounce it epi-tome

what's the correct pronunciation?

>> No.3853541

>>3853528
Is that some kind of American pronunciation.

>> No.3853542

>>3853538
It's not tome, it's more like toe-me.

>> No.3853543

>>3853538
e-pit-oh-me

For me, "Hyper-bowl"

>> No.3853544

>>3853538
With four syllables, as in "e-pi-to-me."

>> No.3853548

>>3853537

that's what i thought but was very rudely "corrected"

>> No.3853550

>hyperbole
>hyperbowl

I also can never say literally, my tongue just can't get around the last syllable.

>> No.3853551

>>3853537
>he hasn't realized that this is a troll thread in which people try to trick others into believing that they've been mispronouncing words

top lel

>> No.3853556

>>3853543
In the superbowl they play superbly.

>> No.3853559

>>3853548
Screw 'em, it's lin-e-er, the comparative of higher quality than a regular lin function.

>> No.3853563

linear

I pronounce it like it looks (lin-ear), but my friend said it was closer to lin-i-yer or something.

>> No.3853564

>>3853551
You need to lurk a little more buddy.

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3853570

>>3853551

>> No.3853578

>>3853542
>>3853543
>>3853544
Shit, i've been pronouncing epitome wrong all this time

>> No.3853581

>tfw you've never been to an English speaking country
>tfw you have nowhere to practice your spoken English except for the occasional international business meeting at work

I bet I mispronounce a lot of the less common words. People never correct me though, not even during the informal small talk, but that's probably because they don't wanna offend their foreign contractor. Oh well.

>> No.3853598

>>3853563
three syllables
Lin-e-er
or Lin-i-yer
are right

>> No.3853610

>>3853598
not really

how about funny local accents?

where I live we form the words 'did' and 'you' into the word 'joo', and pronounce 'h' like 'hay-ch' even though it's pretty much non existent in our dialectic

>> No.3853612

>>3853610
never meant to quote just meant to quickreply so i wouldn't have to scroll all the way back up

>> No.3853615

>>3853610
Never heard anyone say linearly like nearly.

>> No.3853618

>>3852792
>tfw no qt Misa gf

>> No.3853623

Cham-el-leon

>> No.3853628

Theologian

Theology-an

>> No.3853642

I pronounced Carl Jung's last name with the "J" when talking to my professor. Fuck me.

>> No.3853646

I was talking to my friend about hair styles and mispronounces faux hawk as "fox hawk."

>> No.3853647

>>3853642
I used to say Sigmund FROOD

Ludwig WITT - GENTS - STEEN

Goethe's FAWST

>> No.3853649

>>3853647
GoTHe

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3853652

>be me
>be 14
>at cousins house
>he's playing Zelda
>freking sweet
>He calls it Ocornia of time
>I correct him
>He corrects me
>mfw

>> No.3853653

>>3853649
James JUICE

>> No.3853656

>>3853424
>glottal stops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOT8zYyOs3I

>> No.3853657

Back in the day I once pronounced nihilism
>Ni-Hill-Ism
Man that's embarrassing stuff.

>> No.3853661

>>3853653
I lol'd

>> No.3853662

>>3853642 here, I also pronounced Camus as Cay-mus. And I still don't know how the hell to pronounce Sartre.

>> No.3853664

>>3853653
To rhyme with Dr Seuss :D

>> No.3853666

>>3852792
Foreign words, names:
forvo .com

English pronunciation
howsjay.com

>> No.3853667

Queue

>"It's kind if like having your stuff placed in a....how that's that word pronounced, quay-ay?"

>> No.3853671

>>3853653
Yeah, it's Jamba Juice. That's Gaelic spellings for you.

>> No.3853673

>>3853667
i used to pronounce it qway.

>> No.3853675

>>3853662 here again, except I forgot how I pronounced Meursault as Mer-salt.

>> No.3853678

>>3853667
You're joking, right? I do assume we all grew up with this word and were using it before we knew how to spell it, yes?

>> No.3853680

>>3853662
Sar-tra
but without putting extra stress on the TRA

>> No.3853684

>>3853678
we use line instead of queue over here in america, faggot.

>> No.3853688

>>3853678
I don't live in Europe, sorry

>> No.3853689

>>3853678
Not Americans,
Even though I knew Queue as a term, I thought it was spelled que, and I was puzzled the first time I saw Queue,

>> No.3853690

Still uncomfortable trying to say macabre

>> No.3853692

>>3853684
>>3853688
>>3853689
Fatties and their drive-thrus

>> No.3853696

>>3853690
Channel a /fit/izen doing gains: muh carb

>> No.3853697

>>3853692
drive-queues

>> No.3853703

"Insultei-lhe" instead of "Insultei-a". Some grill corrected me. I nearly lost it.

>> No.3853704

>>3853696
Made me chuckle.

>> No.3853705

>>3853692
He says, as if Eurofags who come to America don't plump.

>> No.3853715

I once pronounced duplicitous as doo-pli-sitious.

>> No.3853721

a friend of mine once said "para dig um" with paradigm. and true to /lit/ form, we're not friends anymore.

>> No.3853732
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3853732

You know what's even worse?

Words or phrases that sound disgusting to you and you refuse to say them, but there's no alternative

>pinky
>belly button
>university of no-turr daime

FUCK.

>> No.3853738

>>3853732
The problem is, if you say

>little finger
>navel
>notre dame

You sound like a pretentious tool.

>> No.3853755

My English teacher can't say Anecdote, she pronounces it Antidote. I've tried to help her fix it, but she doesn't care and now she has everyone in the class mispronouncing it.

>> No.3853757

Character

literally character instead of karacter

>> No.3853762

>>3853738
Only if your friends are dumb, and probably poor, too.

>> No.3853770

>>3853738
you can get away with little finger and navel, but you gotta say Notre Dame for Paris, and noter daym for the University.

>> No.3853785

Ambiguity
>Am-big-wi-tee

>> No.3853789

>>3853732
Noter Daim? the fuck is wrong with americans?

>> No.3853799

>>3853789
We get together in these big meetings and decide how to pronounce words. Haven't you heard?

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>>3853789
When Japanese, French and British change the pronunciation of words from other cultures, it's accepted as a convention of communication.
When Americans do it, it's because they're arrogant and uncouth.

In America it's called a Double standard, but Eurofags pronounce it Dou-blay stan-DARD

>> No.3853821

>>3853667
That's pronounced 'kwee-wee', man.

>> No.3853828

quay
Liechtenstein
words containing "gh"

>> No.3853829

daiquiri

thought it was die-key-ree

just die in my sleep already

>> No.3853830

I remember being 7 and pronouncing chaos as "chohss"
last one I remember was maybe a year, or year and half ago. mononoke, as in the movie. pronounced it moanoke, like roanoke.

>> No.3853837

>no quinoa

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3853838

>>3853830
Ditto,
From Sonic The Hedgehog,
The Chows Emeralds.
My Big Brother had to correct me.

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3853841

>>3853838
>The Chows Emeralds.
I guess that's a bit of a minefield now if you didn't grow up with the Saturday morning cartoons.

>> No.3853846

quixotic

>Don Key-hoe-tay
>quick-sot-tic
>no fucking way

I say key-hot-tic

>> No.3853866

What's the correct way of pronouncing Nietzsche?

I live in America, and I swear Americans are pronouncing it wrong when they say "Nitch-ay"

>> No.3853870

>>3853866
I have heard nee-chay but I'm afraid of saying it out loud.

>> No.3853875

>>3853866
Nee-chuh

>> No.3853880

>>3853866
Nee-cha or Nee-chee.

>> No.3853891

>>3853870
Yeah, I have as well. No offense to Americans, but I usually look for a secondary source on most of the stuff I hear them pronounce.

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3853901

>>3853866
Neets-shuh

Disregard
>>3853870
>>3853880
>>3853875

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3853904

>>3853866
http://youtu.be/Y7Ge3Wij2Cw
Watch a couple minutes of this, it's hilarious.

>> No.3853906

http://www.forvo.com/search/nietzsche/

neet-chuh

>> No.3853919

>>3853904
Huh.

>> No.3853927

I always pronounce "genuine" as "jehn-yoo-EYNE", when it should be "JEHN-yoo-in".

>> No.3853942

>tfw you will never speak like a proper Patrician with perfect pronunciation

>> No.3853945

>>3853435

Shit, me too. "cay-muss". It's a much better name. Luckily I hate CAHMOO so I don't talk about him much.

>> No.3853955

>>3853647

Shit I have a hard time with Goethe too. I pronounce his name "goe-AYTH" with a hard "th" and Faust just like you do.

>> No.3853961

Well, i never speak English in public, because i never have the opportunity to do so, but i thought melee was pronounced meeee-leee.

>> No.3853963

>>3852932
>I think that's the correct pronunciation of lambaste.

Common misconception. It's pronounced "lam-BASTE." Look it up.

>> No.3853975

>>3853963
You're learning it from the free dictionary aren't you?

>> No.3853984

>>3853975
The free dictionary?

>> No.3854000
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3854000

I do this all the time with my sister.

I swear she mispronounces shit just to fuck with me.

>turns Nemesis into Nemness

>> No.3854001

itt: americans

>> No.3854002

>>3853984
Bad IPA examples. I suggest buying a decent dictionary.

>> No.3854020

Foucault - Fau - colt
Rousseau - Rou - sau
Goethe - Goth
Diogenes - Day-oh - genes

>> No.3854027

>>3854002
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but what dictionary tells you to pronounce 'lambaste' differently than how I wrote it?

>> No.3854032

>>3854020
Fuko's Pendulum,

>tfw just realizing this.
damn the french

>> No.3854037

if you don't pronounce it "fucko's pendulum" every time you're doing it wrong

>> No.3854043

When I was very little and excited about learning to read I'd read whatever I could around my house. One day I sat reading the labels on the VHS's (stuff my mom had taped on TV). When I came to "Fried Green Tomatoes" I pronounced it "Tomma-toes" and my mom started giggling like crazy.

I never mispronounce tomatoes normally, but any time I see that movie's title or actual green tomatoes, I remember that day.

>> No.3854057

>>3852800
I used to think "epitome" was pronounced "epi-tome," like you said, and that "epi-toe-mee" was a separate word that I didn't know how to spell.

>> No.3854073

>>3854027
Most have both læmˈbeJst and læmˈbæst.
>what dictionary tells you to pronounce 'lambaste' differently than how I wrote it?
Any.

>> No.3854074

>>3853904
What the fuck am I watching?

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Seriously, damn the french, their whole phonic schema is too god damn baroque

Individually some of the words have style but when you start running them together it just loses the effect. Especially when it's spoken.

French should only be spoken from the mouths of world weary mature women, They're the only ones who can make it work.

>> No.3854079

>>3853732
Exactly...for some reason the words "diaper" and any word that that has a repeated consonant sound like "boob" or "bubble" makes me cringe like crazy. I can't stand them and I thought everyone was like that until I realized hearing them didn't have the same effect on other people.

>> No.3854082

>>3854074
I'd like to think that this is the kind of program /lit would make if it had 2 years of design experience and a lot of home movies.

...and was, ya know... high

>> No.3854085

>>3854073
>J
Should be that little I thing. Basically, both as in maced and in mast.

>> No.3854086

Do names count too?
Because I managed to mispronounce Kieslowski, Tarkovsky and Zizek all in the same sentence.

>> No.3854091

>>3854082
>I'd like to think that this is the kind of program /lit would make if it had 2 years of design experience and a lot of home movies.
I really hope you don't take them seriously.

>> No.3854093

>>3854073
>Any.

Me Oxford doesn't.

>> No.3854094

>>3854082
It's so fucking entertaining

>> No.3854101

>>3853904
Holy shit...this is hilarious. what the fuck am I watching?

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>>3854093
You mean this? Explanation coming up.

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>>3854027
The OED gives only /læmˈbeJst/, which is your pronunciation

When I was very young, a teacher had our class copying answers to a math paper and I asked "why don't we just X-ero-x them?"
also I recently pronounced aporia as apo-ría
embarrassing

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>>3854102

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>>3854104
OED is not to be read blindly

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>>3854091
I don't, but I had to watch them all,
It's just so damn intriguing.
You get done watching the one on Plato and you see Descartes in the sidebar, and you're like "I have to see what they do with Descartes" and then you get through Descartes and you see Karl Marx on the side and you're like "The fuck if I'm going to miss what they make from Marx"

So passes a night on the internet.

>> No.3854109

>>3853904
>Darn tootin! Is bumming me out mans.
Brilliant

>> No.3854120

>>3854107
I'd rather recommend stuff like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByOKZmQ72m4&list=PL263E4E84440C71AB

The KNL stuff is at best uninformative, often flagrantly wrong.

>> No.3854137

>>3854120
Is it :(
But I wanted to get informed...

>> No.3854143

>>3854120
>Marx was wrong
Wow, what a nuanced and open-minded bit of opinion coming from the BBC.
Not much better than the Ruskie show

>> No.3854145

in logic class in college, native English speakers are reading examples:

initiative: ini-tee-ah-TEEV
computational: just fumbles and doesn't really say anything
municipal: muhn-IHK-ih-pahl
arboretum: ahr-BOR-tum

'murica

>> No.3854149

>>3854137
Maybe we need to get back to having podcast/video/papers/books threads.

If you want something to really take up your time and inform you, listen to in our time from radio4. That'll give you a pretty good basis for any given subject.

>> No.3854150

>>3854120
Wow, what a twat

>> No.3854160

>>3854143
>I have the attention span of a gnat
Wow. Try paying attention for like 5 minutes and maybe being aware of Socratic irony.

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>>3854120
The point isn't to be informed. it's to be entertained by the What the Fuck am I Watching?-NESS

>> No.3854164

>>3854160
Watched it, it's bias as fuck

>> No.3854169

>>3854164
Go on.

>> No.3854196

i know someone who mispronounces munich as moonich rather than munik. i correct him all the goddamn time and he still does it.

>> No.3854200

>>3854196
>i know someone who mispronounces munich as moonich rather than munik.
You mean Mun-khen

>> No.3854214

>>3854200
we ain't in germany, nigga.

>> No.3854218

>>3854214
>we
Where do you think you are?