Spanish would never pull this BS on you.
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Reading through Lovecraft's (especially his earlier) work be like, "Hey Google! Define cacodaemoniacal.."
You're gonna need to know what gambrelled roofs and gables are too. Dude loved his gambrells and gables.
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This is why I love spanish as my second language. You don't have to guess what the word sounds like. Spelling and pronunciation always match.
Trebucket
The one that I mispronounced for awhile was hyperbole. I thought it was pronounced like "hyper bowl."
Sounds like you never played Space Quest IV.
Wait... it's not??
I gotta check now: Oh god dammit. I never made the connection.
Facade. Got laughed for saying fac-aid. How am I supposed to know a c make an s sound.
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But "hyperbolic" is exactly like you expect.
Epitome and Penchant for me. Mocked mercilessly for those two.
Oh yeah, epitome for me too. It was the epi-tome.
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What? Shit
Hi per Bol e (e as in how it sounds in see)
Man, this is ridiculous. It resembles Akkadian more and more with each passing day.
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Segue for me. I pronounced it seg-goo and my mom busted out laughing.
I was at the store with my partner and I was like
“What’s… kwee-know-ah?”
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I tend to read it as Sergey without the "r".
Huh… don’t think I’ve ever seen segue written down. I’d be writing Segway if I had to.
Sounds like something you ride or a place that makes so so sandwiches.
Now that I think about it... it makes sense now! A segway is a segue between two places!
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As someone who has learned the English language primarily by reading thousands of books, I wholeheartedly agree. On the other hand, English pronounciation sucks big time.
When the English tongue we speak.
Why is break not rhymed with freak?
Will you tell me why it's true
We say sew but likewise few?
And the maker of the verse,
Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?
Beard is not the same as heard
Cord is different from word.
Cow is cow but low is low
Shoe is never rhymed with foe.
Think of hose, dose,and lose
And think of goose and yet with choose
Think of comb, tomb and bomb,
Doll and roll or home and some.
Since pay is rhymed with say
Why not paid with said I pray?
Think of blood, food and good.
Mould is not pronounced like could.
Wherefore done, but gone and lone -
Is there any reason known?
To sum up all, it seems to me
Sound and letters don't agree.
This makes my head hurt and I love it.
The amount of lines I had to go back over was mind boggling
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The english language badly needs an orthography reform
I always vaguely wondered where in-FRAIR'd light fit into the spectrum because I only heard people talking about infra-red and ultraviolet...
I grew up reading Warner Bros comic books my grandma had and thought Yosemite Sam was pronounced "Yosemight". Eventually figured it out. Later my backpacking buddy and I were looking at a map of California when he told me we should check out "Yosemight" if we ever get around to visiting Yosemite
I said "miss happen" one time in front of my girlfriend. "What?"
"You know, like badly shaped, deformed."
"Misshapen?! BAH HAH HA HAA!"