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Knowing a word without knowing how to pronounce it?
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| SuperFarStucker |
Ever have this happen to you?
It happens to me all the time. For the longest time I knew the meaning of facetious in word and paper but it never clicked to me that the two words were actually the same one in my mind until we were reading this paper in class and teh teacher read it aloud as "fah-see-shus" (which subsequently isn't really how it's spelled) and it clicked for me, boy did I feel stupid.
The phonetic pronunciation keys for me might as well be a foreign language as I really don't understand them, they use all kinds of symbols that are unrecognizable to me.
Basically, what I'm wondering is a good book to learn phonetic code or whatever it's called. :) It drives me crazy to be able to learn a word but lack the ability to pronounce it because I don't understand "phonetic code."
I.E. egregious
known the meaning of that word forever, still haven't the damndest (is that a word?) idea of how to pronounce it. It doesn't roll off the tongue too easily with the default/generic phonetic assumptions so I'm guessing it's an oddjob :)
I think I get way too worked up about stupid |
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| Photo_bot_2k1 |
| i knew a whole lot of people who didnt know how to say epitome |
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| UWM |
Yarmulke
I bet a lot of people know what that is but have no idea how to spell it :) |
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| SuperFarStucker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Photo_bot_2k1
i knew a whole lot of people who didnt know how to say epitome |
That's another one that ed with me for the longest time. A-PIT-O-ME and epitome... never really made the connection till one day it just struck me.
I remember getting into a tangle with some mates of mine over the pronunciation of "synaesthesia"
they were saying "synth-a-seizeya" and I promptly correct them saying it's actually syn es teezyuh (well that doesn't properly phonetically represent either way but it's most important to note that they were actually saying "synth" at the beginning of the word). I still maintain I was correct and they still maintained they were. Finally, it struck me that Infusion - Legacy (JXL) had the word synaesthesia in it pronounced just like I was saying in it (I'm not kidding about this either) and that was my all-knowing proof. Shut them up proper har-har :p
Damn, I'm a nerd. |
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| Orbax |
| pah-suede-oh. PAH SWAY DOE.......THAT WAS MY 19 YEAR OLD EX-FRIEND TRYING TO PRONOUNCE PSEUDO. OAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh |
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| SuperFarStucker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Turbonium
http://www.m-w.com is your friend : definitions AND pronunciation. w00t. |
SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| SuperFarStucker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orbax
pah-suede-oh. PAH SWAY DOE.......THAT WAS MY 19 YEAR OLD EX-FRIEND TRYING TO PRONOUNCE PSEUDO. OAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh |
that made me laugh aloud. It always just made sense to me that you ignored the p just like you ignore the k in know. Wow.. damn funny :) |
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| Orbax |
| quote: | Originally posted by SuperFarStucker
that made me laugh aloud. It always just made sense to me that you ignored the p just like you ignore the k in know. Wow.. damn funny :) |
This is after 3 years of biology mind you |
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| lipstick |
autechre,, i still dont know how to say that one,, and neither does anyoen else who listens to them.... i think it might be
oh- tech- ruh but i think thats totally wrong!.. one of life's many one-ders |
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| Noisician |
| quote: | Originally posted by lipstick
autechre,, i still dont know how to say that one,, and neither does anyoen else who listens to them. |
that is absolutely not true. sean booth explained how to pronounce it in a number of interviews. it's the same as pronouncing 'theatre' for example. u say it as though it were written as 'theater' (which is american way of simplified spelling). so 'autechre' is pronounced the same as 'autecher' (awe-teh-ker). |
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| EvilTree |
| Until recently I had trouble pronouncing specific for some reason. :) |
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