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⌈ Secret Post #6657 ⌋

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[Barbara Gordon, Oracle]

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07. [SPOILERS for Ghost (band)]

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Do you have any fandom words or names that people pronounce in a way that bugs you?

Anything that you yourself pronounce unusually? Or struggle to pronounce “correctly”?

I have a friend who's name is Carolina and it is pronounced Care-o-leen-ah instead of what I am used to, Care-o-line-ah. I had so much trouble when I first met her because even though I knew I was pronouncing it the way she said it, it *felt* wrong everytime and my brain kept making me doubt.

I had the opposite problem. When I see the name Carolina as a given name in a written work, I assume it's Car-o-lee-na because it's the Spanish and Italian version of Caroline and that's how it's pronounced in those languages. Carolina only sounds like Caroline with an A to me when it's preceded by North or South.

This happened to me twice in a book where a character had the name or nickname Lina, and I assumed it was pronounced Lee-na. In one case you didn't find out it was short for Carolina until a while into the book, and it finally clicked that oh, her sister calling her "Liney" was a nickname-of-a-nickname and it's pronounced Line-a, not Lee-na. In another, the character's full name was Lina and again, weird coincidence, she had a sister who called her "Wy-na" and I was wondering why it wasn't "Wee-na" and it wasn't till later in the series you fine it implied that her name came from the state of North Carolina.

I’ve lived half my life in America and half in England so my pronunciation is totally random. I try to go with the local variant but sometimes it just doesn’t happen.

The old game Skies of Arcadia barely has a(n English) fandom anymore, but I think most people in it including me reject the official name pronunciations because they don't make any intuitive sense. I didn't even know I was pronouncing them "wrong" until I saw them written in katakana after I finished the game.

The biggest offender is Enrique, which is apparently officially pronounced with the last E being silent. Maybe somewhere someone has that name pronounced that way, but when the character is from a country that's a blatant analogue for Imperial Spain, that's just dumb.

"for {name} and I" this is in a zillion movies and TV shows and it's wrong. You say "for me", not "for I"!

It bugs me so much when "[blank] and I" is used when it's supposed to be "[blank] and ME".

The tickets are for ME, not for I. They insulted ME, they did not insult "I". 😩

It's worse when someone is sharing trauma on the internet, and then they drop that on everyone else. And I have to fight the urge to correct the improper use of grammar because they are having such a bad time already...

This drives me bonkers. And it's so widespread that now it's considered "correct." OH MY GOD NO IT ISN'T. It's like having a ice pick shoved in my ears.

Even worse is when they insist I's is correct. As in, Jane and I's meeting. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA STOP THAT. IT IS AN AFFRONT TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, AND THAT'S SAYING SOMETHING.

Not a fandom thing, but I just hate how English changed the word ceramics. It's keramikos! K!
Yes, it's normal for languages to adapt words and English is known for that, but this one bugs me to no end.

I love how niche this is. Also, thanks for teaching me a fun fact I didn't know!

Tbf it's mostly because my language adopted this word closer to Greek version. So my brain glitches on it.
This is highly ironic considering that we butchered French in all kind of ways

AH, in Italy too it's pronounced more like the English version than the Greek one. Same with the name/title Caesar. It should be with a "K", like the ancient Latin pronunciation, but we pronounce it with a "CH".
I've always found it irritating because I had to study ancient Latin and almost all my professors pronounced the C like "CH" like in Italian BUT IT'S WRONG!!!

We (doxxing myself - Russian language, a lot of words Greek based) pronounce caesar as a title with a k. Caesarean section with K too. But Guy Julius "Tsezar". And "Tsezar" salad. Why? Just because

I'm amused whenever someone pronounces midwifery the way it looks like it should be pronounced because it reminds me of the (much funnier) way it is actually pronounced.

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