Some names would also throw me for a loop. When I first heard how they said "Hermione", I was quite flabbergasted.
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I did this, and grew up in a ESL English only house,I pronounce so many words wrong with a perfect American accent.
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Bunch of y'all didn't watch TV with the captions on or movies with subtitles.
laughs in a language that makes sense phonetically
English speakers laugh at you too.
Don't kill me, it's a joke.
Laffs.
Langwij.
Maeks
Senz.
Fonetikly.
Ai jenyuinely wish inglish woz laik thiz
Hooked on fanəks wurked four me.
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Laughing phonetically
I'm pathetic at both pronunciation and spelling. I just know when I hear it lol.
Auto complete isn't helping either with the situation.
That's how i was until i took a French class. Before that, I was trying to fit everything into a single set of rules with a multitude of exceptions. But really there are multiple sets of rules. Learning another set of rules for a language that had such a huge impact on what English is today really helped (although, there are still plenty of exceptions to keep in mind lol)
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Unless, of course, they read books that exist just to tell you how to pronounce words. I remember seeing a gigantic book on display at a Borders years ago that was nothing but odd (and often very large medical term) words and how to pronounce them.
Truth...hah! I still have words I have to look up on the sly on the internet and click one of those definition services that will pronounce the word for you so I don't sound completely wrong.
I pronounced epitome epi-tome for the longest time. Now as I read, I pop onto Google when I encounter something I'm unfamiliar with. And I'm 36, my job has me fairly familiar with the English language, but I swear some writers discover a word and they're like "can't wait to use this two or three times in the next couple chapters."
It's that and character/place names, but character names are dangerous lookups, spoiled a plot in WoT looking up how to pronounce Moraine. And the worst part is her name's pretty obvious, but I fucking looked it up anyway. I thought Hermione was obvious as a kid, but that's probably because I transposed the I and O, now that I think about it.
I was teasing my significant other about her epi-tome but then she caught me with indictment so we're back on equal footing.
Wait that's how in-died-ment is spelled?
Im bad at pronouncing words and i know a lot of them
I also dont and never did enjoy reading books
What kind of games do you play?