Pronunciation pet peeves

Cause me wee Todd did?

 

Dog as knee, cow shi I know? As hole Bob, he shi know!
Eye tole joo, an I dun tole joo 'gin...

 

The Rosie Perez school of linguistics.

My submission: A.

It's the first effing word in the dictionary. It's pretty common, but people can't seem to pronounce it right. "Uh." That's it. Not "ay."

It's particularly annoying when a newscaster or announcer (in a commercial) mispronounces it. Why?
Because it makes it obvious that you're reading from a script rather than just speaking.

Read these out loud. Get uh clue. Get ay clue.

Which one sounds natural? Which one sounds like a first grader, pointing at the words as they read a sentence in class.....

Scab picked. Rant off.

 

I gotta John Tron that one…. “What?!?!? What the…”

 

Say it quick, sound it out, hahahaha

 

The KUSI morning show had a girl doing the weather on there that said Moun-ens..it took about 2 weeks to correct her because of viewer complaints. She only lasted a few more months! I'm sure Fisheromen had her whacked!

 

You haven't even touched on this stuff until you've been pushed through the Catholic school system. Alllll daaaay long - Catholicism, spelling and penmanship. Think of what its like for me? I can only tell you regardless of pronunciation, I'm sick of hearing one word... "LIKE." "I'm like feeling like sick." "Okay, so you're feeling something akin or similar to sick?" "No, I'm like really sick." "What's like sick?" See where this could go? Those of us shoved through the parochial system will understand. There (used to be anyway) a huge difference in parochial vs. public school teaching and lessons. Yes, I was an altar boy. It got me nowhere except out of class for funerals, First Friday masses, and morning masses during Lent.

 

I cringed every time I heard JFK pronounce nuclear as "nucular". Throw in his Boston accent and we got a somber speech to the nation on the Quber missle crisis and the threat of nucular war.

 

Nope. LOL!
Ya sound like Teeter from Yellowstone! ROFL!

 

Another fan out of the closet ! I love it ! That's home, for me anyway. It's the dying commitment to family, the value of a true hard days work, loyalty and respect that our up and coming generations will never know and understand.

 

Don’t get me started about Japanese words that is common English vernacular now.

I get corrected by Americans how to say these words…It’s just easier for me to say it wrong so they understand me or don’t try to correct me

karaoke
It’s: Ka-ra-o-ke…..not Carry-Oh-key

Sukoshi……. Su-ko-shi. not Skosh

Sake…..Saa-kay not. Sa-key

Karate….ka-ra-te ….not ka-raaa-tayy

How do you say these words?
Arigato
Teriyaki
Tokyo
Sukiyaki
Toyota
Yokosuka
Hiroshima
Tofu

I just laugh…..

 

And Spanish words….

La Jolla
El Cajon
Penasquitos
Tijuana
Etc etc etc

if you live here….learn how to say it right!

Respect the culture….learn it…appreciate it

 

Jamacha. Ham-a-shaw? Or is is Ja-Make-A?

 

Ok..I agree with soften...not so much often!

 

Has anyone else ever noticed how words/phrases can be "invented" overnight by influential people (Hollywood idiots, social media darlings)? And by the next day, the general public (mostly kids that idolize them) is adding them into their own vocabulary? The black community is HUGE on this. A brother or sister can dream-up practically any word or phrase and put it on social media. And by the next day, people of all colors, backgrounds and ages are doing their level best to integrate that "speak" into their own vocabularies. The latest "professional" phrase that has always killed me is, "At the end of the day..."