[ SECRET POST #5334 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5334 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #763.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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[case]

Name the fandom. And repeats, etc.

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Secret count?

[(Anonymous)]

If you've got a moment to spare, I'd love to know. Thank you, Case!

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01. https://i.imgur.com/hfIVaPj.png

[(Anonymous)]

I give some leeway on non-native speakers pronunciation (been there, done that) but when it's something very easily verifiable and easy to say, sorry they need to actually look it up.

I've had to skip podcast episodes because the podcaster wasn't pronouncing some easily verifiable names correctly. They were American pronouncing non-English names so I wasn't expecting perfection but some of them were just so wrong I couldn't listen to it anymore.

And I'm American and the names were in language I don't speak but they were very well-known names! I even looked it up later to make sure I wasn't Mandela Effecting myself and nope, easy to look up and pronounced how I'd heard it before.

[philstar22]

This ruined a couple really interesting historical list Youtube channels for me. It seemed like they were almost deliberately mispronouncing at times.

[(Anonymous)]

I have the opposite problem lmao, can't listen to native English speakers mention any city or name from my country because the pronunciation is dreadful without fail.

[(Anonymous)]

I've definitely had this happen to me too.

It honestly makes me feel better that I'm not the only one who's been bugged into quitting something because of constant mispronunciations, even when it seems irrational.

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds a lot closer to the Spanish pronunciation.

[(Anonymous)]

The irony of an American complaining about other people mispronouncing anything...

[(Anonymous)]

As an Aussie, this secret makes me laugh. Americans in particular are always mispronouncing our cities and towns on youtube. If anything, I find it cute.
(for example, americans tend to say "Mel-borne" we pronounce it "Mel-ben").

[(Anonymous)]

I get where OP is coming from, but as an ESL this secret makes me feel really bad lol
we don't mispronounce things on purpose, and we're always open to being corrected as long as it's done respectfully. It's not very nice when people who can't even string a full sentence in your language jump all over you when making minor mistakes in theirs.

Usually what happens when we mispronounce given names or very specific words is that we genuinely don't know better, or just learn words by reading them and piece how they are pronounced from our previous knowledge, other words and so on. There's also the issue of absorbing words from people with different accents or from other regions. We can't look up words we don't know we are saying wrong, and english has the particularity of having flexible sounds while my mother tongue is entirely flat (and many others also).

Again, I get where OP is coming from but there's a lot more to these things than just "not looking them up".

[(Anonymous)]

I keep coming across Youtubers who mispronounce a lot of words in general and don't have the excuse if a language/accent/nationality difference. The word "indicted" seems to give people trouble, for example.

[greghousesgf]

The voice over on a local bus pronounces "Aileen" wrong (there is an Aileen Street in the next town over from me).

[(Anonymous)]

That reminds me of this (American) podcast series where the narrators try very hard to correctly pronounce some of the names (like Latin American or Chinese) to be politically correct but couldn't give a rat's ass about other pronunciations (like German names) - they don't even try.

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02. https://i.imgur.com/TtGTsqs.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Tarantino's acting is less of a problem than Rodriguez' directing. Seriously, the first half of the movie is phenomenal, the Santanico Pandemonium dance is obviously amazing, and then after that the movie just falls off a cliff.

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03. https://i.imgur.com/ZPa28Jw.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

What bugs you about Serial? The format? The presentation?

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04. https://i.imgur.com/TbS5XUv.png

[tei]

Do you actually, uh, know anything about gymnastics? Or did you read three tweets and decide you're an expert?

1. She didn't damage their chances of winning. She pulled out of the team final because she had already received the lowest score in the rotation on the event she did do, and anticipated that she would continue performing poorly (aka, more poorly than any of her teammates) on the other events. This is obviously completely besides the safety argument, but since you clearly only care about medals-- yeah. She didn't lose them the team gold. She stepped down to allow them to win the team silver.

2. She didn't "reserve her emotional health for the solo competition." She didn't compete in the individual all-around. Sunisa Lee won it. Have you been living under a rock?

3. "Taking a spot and not competing" is precisely the (extremely normal) situation that the team format, including all-arounds and reserve athletes for finals, is for. This is not some crazy unprecedented situation. Athletes have to pull out of competitions all the time. Because Simone pulled out of event finals, MyKayla Skinner was able to compete in the vault final (which she otherwise wouldn't have been) and won a silver medal, and Jade Carey was able to win the gold on floor. No, there are not any other American athletes who were denied the chance to go to Tokyo who would have done better than that.

This is so fucking stupid I can't even believe I spent my time explaining it. What is wrong with you that the concept of "mental health>sports" needs an "argument"?

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05. [SPOILERS for Amphibia]
https://i.imgur.com/TdtE7QG.jpg

[feotakahari]

I don’t go here, but this kid’s what, 13?

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06. [WARNING for discussion of noncon/underage]
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[feotakahari]

TV Tropes assumes the same.

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Weekend Plans!

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What is everyone doing this weekend?

I am going to ikea tomorrow. It is going up be 4 hour drive there but my sister really wants to go. Sunday will be for driving home.

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