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What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on? (programming.dev)

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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

An entire fandom has been pronouncing "Evangelion" wrong for the past quarter-century.

It's supposed to be pronounced with a hard G, like hair gel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

εὐαγγέλιον

/eu̯.aŋ.ɡé.li.on/

Roughly pronounced ayoo-ahn-gay-lee-on

Or if that's not a compelling argument

新世紀エヴァンゲリオン

/ɕiɲseiki ebangeɾioɴ/

Roughly pronounced Ay-bahn-gay-lee-on

And that's really what matters: how the guy who named it pronounces the name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

So Ee-van-guh-lion, yes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm not really into it, but it seems I've been saying it right the whole time, nice lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Dota players will pronounce "Abaddon" (a hero's name) like "ah-buh-don" and it's really bizarre. In their defense though, many aren't native English speakers

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A hard g? Like in giraffe?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a sensitive topic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I fell for it and was momentarily outraged. Goke's on me.