Writer's Block: Peevish

[sagesaria]

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I'll list three.

1. People who mispronounce words despite hearing it correctly, or don't even try to pronounce it. Especially in foreign languages.
2. Redundant phrases like "ATM Machine" and "and etc."
3. The assumption that everybody and their mother knows or remembers something. Marc is guilty of this one a lot; he screamed at a contestant on Millionaire for not knowing what an Obi is, which *I* wouldn't have known either if I hadn't read Shogun that summer.

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[graspthethorn.livejournal.com]

1. People who mispronounce words despite hearing it correctly, or don't even try to pronounce it. Especially in foreign languages.

Oh god, that one annoys me too, especially in German. Why can no one pronounce the ch sound properly in ich, etcetera? WHY? *flail*

/random stranger HI -x-

[sagesaria.livejournal.com]

Hi random stranger!

Oh man, practically everybody in my German class struggled with ich except me. Apparently that's a "hard sound to make". I finally just told them to immitate a cat hissing and they'd be making process.

My Spanish class had problems like that too. I wanted to smack everybody who pronounced the l's in "ella"

[graspthethorn.livejournal.com]

Hahah, hylô :D
To be honest, my class didn't have a problem with ch, probably due to the fact we have a very similar sound in Welsh (though, my God, you should have heard us slaughter French for the ill-advised year we were forced to take it :|). But, since moving to England I seem to be surrounded by unilingual idiots who insist on saying ch as ck.

*cowers from your slaps of fury*
I'd probably be one of the people pronouncing Spanish ls wrong. :D You can't really blame me, as I don't know a word of Spanish past "hola!", and blimey, how languages did you take??!? haha

-x-

[sagesaria.livejournal.com]

Well ck is correct if that's the dialect they use. XD

What bothered me was that no matter how many times the Spanish teacher said that two ls was pronounced like a y, everybody still pronounced them like ls

Haha, I only officially took German and Spanish. Don't remember a word of Spanish though XD and I don't know much Japanese except for a few words, and I know enough to know how to frikkin' pronounce "Hiroshima", the word that inspired that pet peeve.

[starsandauras]

Oh god don't even get me started on idiots who insist on pronoucing it as "Hero-shima". It's Japanese, damn near everything is pronouced exactly as it is spelled. And no, the "hi" is not pronouced the way we say "hi" in greeting.

First we bomb the poor city (And Nagasaki, but no one remembers poor Nagasaki) and then to make matters worse we can't even properly prounounce it! And don't get me started on just how wrong it was to bomb those two cities to start with!

*uses new approprate icon*