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8326109 No.8326109 [Reply] [Original]

>reading some literature with words I don't know how to pronounce
>trying to discuss it in real life

>> No.8326142

Nee... Chee?

>> No.8326189

Basically any other language

>> No.8326202
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>>8326109
>I thought pseudo was pronounced puhsweato

>> No.8326206

>>8326109


That's why you keep a dictionary nearby.

> though "infrared" rhymed with "scared" until I was almost in college

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>>8326202
Oh thank god I'm not the only one
In my defense, I was twelve.

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>erudite
>posthumous
>bourgeois

>> No.8326302

>>8326290
bore-swah

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>>8326206
Still haven't bothered to learn IPA.

>> No.8326476

>>8326208
finnish women have this effect on me, like no matter WHAT i need to get in that girl. and jesus christ, they're just so naturally twisted it's fucking addicting. finnish people are obsessed with death and sex.

idk if it's natural predator instinct because I'm a slav but GOD DAMN THANK YOU JESUS

>> No.8326572

>>8326109

You're only scared because you're a poser fucking psuedo-intellectual. I'll tell you what you do:

>I really like the part where he writes
>etc. etc.
>except this word, how do I pronounce it? What does it mean?

And then you learn

>> No.8326582

The first time I read Pynchon I some how got pyclon

>> No.8326605

>>8326202
Psee-udoh

>> No.8326610

>>8326582
I read Pynchon as Pinch-own

>> No.8326744

>>8326582
>Thomas Pinch - on

How wrong am I?