[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 119 KB, 720x480, Burroughs.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
6930908 No.6930908 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw I reaslied today that the book is titled 'the crying of lot 49' and not 'the crying lot of 49'
>I read the book two years ago
>have suggested it to many friends and discussed it frequently with literature students at my uni

anyone else done retarded shit like this?

>> No.6930911

How could you have done that? The title is the last lines of the book.

>> No.6930925

I pronounced Marcel Proust as Marcel Proost.

>> No.6930951

>>6930925

I pronounced with the ou sound from house

>> No.6930998

>>6930925
thatsh ow u pronounce it dude..

>> No.6931017
File: 26 KB, 731x565, 1432626472074.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
6931017

>>6930908
>the crying of lot 49

What the fuck? I thought it was the other one too.

>> No.6931018

are you retarded OP?

I pronounced Salinger with a hard 'G' for years, until someone at a bookstore corrected me

>> No.6931023

I read a satire bio of Kafka without getting the joke and genuinely thought he was russian for quite a while.

>> No.6931057

>thought for years that "Far from the Madding Crowd" was actually titled "Far from the Maddening Crowd"
>zero interest in reading it anymore

>> No.6931348

>aunt tells me she's reading 'the road'
>think she means 'on the road'
>talk to her for like ten minutes about the beats
>she's too polite to correct me
>only realise later that day, when I see 'the road' in her bedroom, that i was thoroughly mistaken

>> No.6931355

>>6930908
I thouhgt V. was W.

>> No.6931358

>>6931355
if you thought vagina was weiner you are mentally ill

>> No.6931360

>>6931358
I thought your mum was a fleshlight.

>> No.6931367

>>6930925
I pronounced it like english Prowst, despite being fully aware that he was a frenchie.

>> No.6931438

Pronounced the Wallace in DFW like wall-us instead of way-llac. I guess that's why the QT was looking at me so skeptically all night.

>> No.6931441

>>6931057
Holy shit you have blown my mind and out goes my interest too.

>> No.6931462

mortimer gives the example of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire being read as The History of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

>> No.6931518

>>6930908
I recommended booka by Victoria Woolf to a few friends , or I would if I had had friends.

>> No.6931540

>>6930908
Thought Stoner was written by Burroughs and was one of his two early period novels with either sometimes Junkie, sometimes Queer.

>> No.6931541

>>6930908
I thought it was Kamuss. Not Camooooooooooooooooo.

Now my mom will never forgive me :/

>> No.6931619

>>6930908
Did you also realize you spell realize wrong?

>> No.6931629

>>6931619

>being cuck'd by american english

>> No.6931639

When I was in 7th grade I said How to Kill a Mockingbird and all my friends laughed at me. Also, hearing people mispronounce Camus and Kierkegaard gives me the giggles.

>> No.6931734

>>6931348
That would make me genuinly angry. Id rather them correct me for a second than waste 10 mins

>> No.6931749

>>6931629
>reaslied

>> No.6931796

>>6931639
>Camoose
>Kierkeegert
Evrytim.

>> No.6931801

>>6931438
What
Post a vocaroo please.

>> No.6931802
File: 102 KB, 540x725, kras.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
6931802

w2c /lit/ bf

>> No.6931812

For a time, I pronounced Dostoyevsky as Dostoyovesky.

>> No.6931818

How do you pronounce “Rimbaud”?

>> No.6931823

>>6931818
Rambo

Fucking french people damn their language.

>> No.6931824
File: 16 KB, 400x449, 1432316074053.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
6931824

>keep pronouncing Finnegans Wake as Finnegan's Wake to qt /lit/ girl at school
>she laughs every time you say it but doesn't correct you
>tfw she doesn't want to be reading buddies with you beacause of this

>> No.6931830

>>6931818
rimjob

>> No.6931832

>>6931824
what

>> No.6931852

>>6931832
Anon trying to jest because they assume "Finnegans" and "Finnegan's" are pronounced the same. Of course they wouldn't have a clue.

>> No.6931853

>>6930908
Holy shit, I also thought it was the Crying lot of 49.
Did I just get Berenstein'd?

>> No.6931866

>>6931749

Holy kek, i had a genuine chuckle here m8

>> No.6931881

When I was 15 and first getting into literature I asked the bookseller for Don Quick-Sote

>> No.6931882

I thought it was 'Henry' Ibsen for over a year

>> No.6931890

>>6931882
I thought it was Ibn Sun as a kid.

>> No.6931907

>>6931890
I thought it was ISBN as a baby

>> No.6931910

Not related to literature but for a long time I thought that Jeff Mangum's name was actually Jeff Magnum.

>> No.6931927

>>6931907
My mother told me she went into early labour at the beginning of a play of his, because she thought it was "isborn".

>> No.6931930

>>6931910

OP here, same. Like for maybe three or four years, luckily nobody I knew IRL knew neutral milk hotel so I never had to pronounce his name out loud, I guess I just misspelled it on /mu/ all the time. Maybe I'm dyslexic.

>> No.6933222

>>6931541
>Now my mom will never forgive me :/

Know that feel anon. The only times I'm ever comfortable enough to not care about how to pronounce names are when I'm with family, mfw when that's where I get rekt the hardest.

Mom wouldn't stop laughing for minutes after I slipped out a "Cam-uss" in her presence.

bitch

>> No.6933253

>>6930908
>Kerouac
>Kurowyouac

>> No.6933322

>>6931853
No seriously guys. How could you think that? The only way you could think that is if you didn't finish the book. There's no way the crying lot of 49 makes sense in the book. What is that? There's a lot 49, and they call the auctioneers criers.

>> No.6933452

>>6930908
WHAT THE FUCK

IT ISNT THE CRYING LOT OF 49?

WHAT THE FUCK DUDE

At least I'm glad I'm not the only one...

>> No.6933520

How to pronounce Nietzsche

>> No.6933528
File: 807 KB, 960x540, 60.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
6933528

A cashier once mentioned that she loved Brideshead Revisited when I was buying a copy. I said, as a joke, that it was a shame they didn't have any of the prequels. She thought I was serious. I've been going out of my way to visit the other bookstores in the city or using Amazon for five years.

>> No.6933543

I thought it was called that too, till I read it and realised it meant auction lot, flipped back to the cover and felt like a doofus.

>> No.6933560

>>6933528
i once bought a plunger cup to use as a trumpet mute. the cashier asked me if i needed a handle as well. i said that i like to unclog the toilet while holding the cup with my hand and the cashier thought i was serious.

>> No.6933735

>>6933520
Neet-shuh

>> No.6933739

>>6933735
Bless you.

>> No.6934589

>>6933528
thats a funny joke, anon

>> No.6934654

Reading Blood Meridian for the first time I thought "naked to the waist" meant no pants. So for like half the book I was visualizing dudes around campfires with their johnsons out

>> No.6934689

I always thought E M Forster was E M Forester until someone finally corrected me

hurts to remember

>> No.6934764

how is blood meridian

>> No.6934785

>studying Jakobson with my linguistics professor during his office hours
>can't stop saying JOK-OB-SON
>teacher is annoyed and sternly corrects me every time, makes me feel so ashamed

later

>watching Yale lecture on structuralism
>professor says "JOK-OB-SON...oops, I meant YOK-OB-SON"
>want to throw it in my old professor's face

>> No.6934811

>>6930908
From where did he get a fucking SPAS 12

>> No.6934947

>>6934811
>hey I know that gun from my cawadoody

>> No.6934951

>>6931881
Should've watched Wishbone.

>> No.6934965

>>6931018
>Salinger
THAT ISNT HOW ITS PRONOUNCED ??

>> No.6934991

>>6931541
>>6933222
You should retaliate by drinking coffee at her funeral

>> No.6934999

>>6934811
NAMBLA has a number of death squads operating in South America.

>> No.6935008

>>6934947
>not watching hickock45
plen

>> No.6936768

I used to mix up the titles of Shakespeare's comedies with Marilyn Monroe-movies.

>> No.6936777

>>6931818
>>6931823
I can't believe I never noticed this before.

>> No.6936865

>>6934654
This one is my favorite so far.

>>6934965
Salin-jer