[ SECRET POST #6060 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6060 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

DA

Do you have any examples of YouTubers not pronouncing basic words correctly?

[(Anonymous)]

Not the same anon, but the one that I hear the most is "especially". I've heard it pronounced as "expecially" quite a few times (MyFroggyStuff does it for example, but not for the purpose OP suspects).

Now, I'm ESL so maybe that example is just due to an accent I'm not familiar with.

[(Anonymous)]

DA
I'm American and from a POC immigrant family (I'm 1st Gen born in US though), and I want to add some context here.

There are regional accents I think is being forgotten about here/not known of. And take into account the sheer volume of diversity in a country as large as the US.

"Expecially" is - to my knowledge - African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). I'm not an expert here since I'm not Black. But from my POV, "expecially" is not an incorrectly pronounced word. It wasn't commonly said in the places I grew up, but I grew up in a mostly white neighborhood/city. As I grew older and became more exposed to the world though, I began to understand that it's so common and normalized to annunciate words differently from region/subculture to region/subculture.

Like any country the US is very diverse and we have a lot of subcultures that intersect and align. So what is normal language to some is weird wording in others, even within a city and within a racial group.

From personal experience, as a youth I found the usage of "ain't" as improper and wrong, but my cousins from a less affluent and more racially diverse city (even though we only lived about 20 minutes away from each other) used "ain't" all the time.

Like, after so many years on earth living in America, I think we should embrace each other's different annunciations. Of course with technical topics and words and depending the seriousness of the topic, I would hope that a creator who takes their job seriously will try their best to pronounce things correctly.
However, I wouldn't hold it against any creator or person for not being able to or forgetting to pronounce it correctly.