[ SECRET POST #2595 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2595 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Nayrt

Sure, but "Jawn" looks like it rhymes with "yawn" and this American pronounces "yawn" and "John" with the same vowel sound so that they rhyme. I would imagine Cumberbatch pronounces them so they rhyme, too, but with a different vowel sound. Spelling it "Jawn" doesn't account for the accent difference, though, because to me there is no pronounciation difference between "John" and "Jawn" unless you really make an effort.

[(Anonymous)]

No, "yawn" and "John" wouldn't even come close to rhyming when said by him. It's hard to explain the difference in writing without IPA. I guess the vowel sound in yawn is a lot more drawn out. You almost explicitly pronounce the w. I could say that "yawn" rhymes with "born" but that's probably not helpful to you because American accents are generally rhotic. So maybe yawn rhymes with born when said by someone with a stereotypical Boston accent.

John has an entirely different vowel sound.

[(Anonymous)]

Good to know, but I still don't see how "Jawn" in any way describes how Cumberbatch says it in the minds of American viewers, when to me (Anerican) "Jawn" and "John" should be pronounced the same. Are we sure "Jawn" even comes from the American side of fandom or that it has anything to do with pronounciation and isn't just an attempt to be cute?

[(Anonymous)]

I have no idea, it's weird as. I've seen that happen before though, like "oh my gawd" or "like a baws" but I never understood it. I guess it's either to be cute or as some sort of emphasis.

I figure whatever the reason though, it's got to be Americans because it reads really awkwardly if you pronounce those vowel sounds differently.

[fingalsanteater]

The o in boss and god don't sound much like aw to me. (God sounds less like gawd than boss does to baws, though.) Those do feel like an exaggeration when I say them, as compared to Jawn/John which sound the same.

[(Anonymous)]

I think I'm just going to go with "We intentionally misspell it to be cute" and stop trying to bring logic into it.