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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
heh, i also was raised by a teacher (primary school), so there was no latitude whatsoever for mis-pronunciation when i was growing up. when i was 2, my mother would impress her friends by asking me "what's that fish eating the algae in the aquarium ?" and i would reply (correctly enunciating) "it's a plecostomus." (i did have to check wikipedia just now to find how to spell it correctly !).
i have always been amazed by people who can imitate accents ; i have no talent for that. however i have little patience for people who speak lazily or badly (like in Taylor's quacking example, although i cannot for the life of me imagine what that could really sound like).
in french, there are the words "dénoter" (to denote) and "détonner" (to be out of tune, to jar). people are *always* saying "détonner" when they mean "dénoter" and it drives me crazy. especially since the meaning seems so obvious to me in each case, if you just think about it : "dénoter" like a note you would make to indicate something, and "détonner" like the "tone" of a sound or a color, which you are going against.
Ising "mythical" when you mean "legendary" also drives me crazy.
my friends often want to give me a good smack.  |
Whachew talkin bout? I ain' got no akcent but I do capitalize words properly, even though the Southern accent is a legedary myth.
