/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4590509]

Humility general

Stupid things you've said in class edition

One time back in college, I thought the word "quixotic" meant "complex" and was pronounced "kwicksotic". So, when I raised my hand in a Shakespeare class and said that the language of the text could sometimes be quixotic, I was met with plenty of pic related.

[Anonymous No.4590512]

It sounds more like "exotic" than "complex"

[Anonymous No.4590516]

It is pronounced kwicksotic...

[Anonymous No.4590524]

>>4590516

Wow, so it is. But Quixote is pronounced kee-ho-tay, correct?

Still eating humble pie over here.

[Anonymous No.4590526]

>>4590524
I have a Spanish edition, and it's spelled "Quijote" on the cover

[Anonymous No.4590531]

>>4590524
That's the proper Spanish pronunciation of the name.

I guess since quixotic is an adjective and not a proper noun, the English language had its way with the word.

[Anonymous No.4590532]

>>4590524
That is correct. I wouldn't use Spanish phonology to try and pronounce English words. That being said, English impossible.

[Anonymous No.4590533]

I once said "what is worth life?". everyone looked at me with synchronized suicide watches.

[Anonymous No.4590539]

>>4590533

"What is worth life?" As in, what is worth giving one's life for? Or devoting one's life to? Or was it just a complete syntactical fumble?

[Anonymous No.4590542]

On a discussion question in philosophy I used inequity instead of inequality. Also did it in my notes, I thought they were the same word for some reason.

[Anonymous No.4590574]

>>4590539
yeah first one, or how do you not waste time? what could possibly fulfill life so that i can get into heaven, even though I don't believe in heaven. And what would heaven be anyway? Its just hard for me to have ambition having forsaken competition. Whenever I am backed into a situation where everyone around me seems to be seeking achievement, only to have that achievement degraded and devalued, I think "what about after that?". Any net gain in any of these struggles?
But then I listen to some music and its all right. Gotta go to school and get a job though. Have to get a mate and bring her to my mother. Have to adapt to her, appreciate all those happy moments. I'm glad about the good times, but I wish I never had to remember them. I wish I didn't remember anything fuck, especially this shit, whatever it is

[Anonymous No.4590600]

>>4590509
Well, you would have been right.

The teacher probably looked up the word later that day and decided that you made a insightful comment about shakespeare's writing

[Anonymous No.4590605]

>>4590509
In English it is pronounced kwicksotic, and your comment wasn't incorrect.

[Anonymous No.4590608]

>>4590605
fuck i always thought it was kee-hot-ick
glad i've never had an opportunity to verbalize it

[Anonymous No.4590651]

In high school I had a running joke with some friends about Socrates being pronounced "so crates," to the extent that eventually we just incorporated the pronunciation into our speech without any reference to the original joke, which I now can't even remember. It's like how someone once called McDonald's Bob Marley's House (don't remember that joke either) and eventually we were saying, sans irony, let's hit up Bob Marley's.

My high school friends and I had no girls to talk to, and we made up for it with a lot of adolescent intellectual posturing. Thus so crates was mentioned fairly often, which had the effect of making me hear "so crates" in my head whenever I would read "Socrates."

This lasted all through university. More than once, even a few times in upper year classes, I found myself saying "so crates." Or else catching myself halfway through and saying "so craty's."

Also once in a tutorial I had horrible diarrhea and I tried to hold it in, and I let out a bit of a silent fart, and realized that it smelt like death and that probably everyone in the room now believed someone had shit their pants. It was at exactly the smell's apex that I realized I couldn't hold it in, and ended up rushing out of the room as fast as possible. Afterwards I met up with my friend from that tutorial who couldn't stop laughing, assuming, given the smell and my hurry out of the room, that I had actually shit my pants. Then it dawned on me that at least a few other folks in the tutorial must also have believed I had shit my pants.

[Anonymous No.4590657]

>>4590651
Did you two watch Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure in like middle school or something?
Because my friend and I had the same joke going.

[Anonymous No.4590670]

>>4590651
Dude, that story was "so crate"zy.

[Anonymous No.4590680]

>>4590657
probably did watch Bill and Ted. Why, do they say so crates in that movie?

[Anonymous No.4590701]

>reading about 1571 Tatar sack of Moscow for Ottoman class
>reading about Pugachev rebellion for another class the same week
>try to make a point about how it was amazing that a steppe army could get still so threatening right in Russian territory in the 18th century
>say Pugachev burned Moscow

[Anonymous No.4590873]

Once, I asked my friend out loud "Why doesn't the earth sink?" much louder than I should have.
>the professor's face when
I bet she thought I was mentally disabled.

[Anonymous No.4590878]

>>4590680
yes

[Anonymous No.4590884]

>>4590516

What the actual fuck? I didn't even know what the word actually meant until this thread, and I always assumed it was pronounced 'key-O-tic'.

...Why the FUCK is it pronounced kwiksotic?

[Anonymous No.4590886]

A few years ago in AP psychology I was talking with my teacher about the movie Altered States, and we were talking about the parts where he physically regresses into an ape-like creature after being in an isolation chamber. My mind was thinking about the drug scenes, though, and I asked him "if that really happened". I wanted to know how the brain reacts to those kinds of drugs, but he thought I was asking if people actually physically regress. He liked at me like I was the biggest idiot on earth, and I felt so embarrassed I didn't even correct him.

[Anonymous No.4590887]

>>4590651
>Also once in a tutorial I had horrible diarrhea and I tried to hold it in, and I let out a bit of a silent fart, and realized that it smelt like death and that probably everyone in the room now believed someone had shit their pants. It was at exactly the smell's apex that I realized I couldn't hold it in, and ended up rushing out of the room as fast as possible. Afterwards I met up with my friend from that tutorial who couldn't stop laughing, assuming, given the smell and my hurry out of the room, that I had actually shit my pants. Then it dawned on me that at least a few other folks in the tutorial must also have believed I had shit my pants.
Pic related

>>4590657
Different anon, but I pronounced it 'so crates' because of Bill and Ted too.
A-as a joke, of course. I knew who Socrates was, I never mispronounced his name in class unknowingly, I'm not still unstoppably tempted to pronounce it that way in my head whenever I read it because it was the first time I'd heard it aloud and is imprinted on my brain, aheheh... heh...
(In all fairness, I saw the movie when I was like 10).


>>4590680
I haven't seen it in a long time, but I think they mispronounce almost everything possible. Like, they call Freud "Frood".
Man, I gotta watch that movie again.

[Anonymous No.4590906]

>>4590884
If you delete System32, a pop up message will appear explaining why quixotic is really pronounced quick sottick. Thank me later.

[Anonymous No.4590913]

This is why I don't use the word "quixotic". Pronouncing it as kwiksotic is fucking retarded when kee-(h)otic sounds much better and corresponds to Quijote's actual name anyway.

>whatcha reading anon
>Don Kwiksotty

Nope, trashed.

[Anonymous No.4590917]

First year IR, thought myself quite the Realist. Some of the bullshit I used to come out with makes me cringe now as I'm nearing the final stage of my Masters in IR.
Down with Positivism.

[Anonymous No.4590945]

>>4590917

What are you now? Structural realism seems quite sensible to me.

[Anonymous No.4590949]

It IS pronounced "kwicksotic".

[Anonymous No.4590951]

>>4590913
This.

I'm going to continue pronouncing it key-hoe-tic and no one can stop me.

[Anonymous No.4590954]

>>4590949
Yes very good anon, welcome to six hours ago

[Anonymous No.4590957]

>>4590954
You're welcome.