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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 7:04:13 GMT -5
My kids did two years of Latin Rosetta Stone. Neither liked it for spoken languages ( one tried Italian one japenese) but for vocabulary development Latin it worked.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 14, 2017 8:55:50 GMT -5
Why many of us mispronounce ''epitome'?
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Sept 14, 2017 10:25:22 GMT -5
Segue, sough, cloaca, meme, Pyrrhic, pwned, effete, interdict.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 14, 2017 11:33:25 GMT -5
Segue, sough, cloaca, meme, Pyrrhic, pwned, effete, interdict. Had to look up the meaning of two of the words and their pronunciation: Sough - 'stuff' minus the 't'. Cloaca - a word I will never, ever use in a written or spoken sentence. Interesting pronunciation though.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 14, 2017 15:21:27 GMT -5
Cassiopeia. In Greek mythology, she was the wife of king Cepheus of Phoenicia and mother of Andromeda. Cassiopeia also pissed off Poseidon who chained her to a throne in the heavens as a constellation.
Fifty-five plus years ago, my dad told me it was pronounced 'Kas-see-oh-pee-uh'.
I just happened to catch a clip a 1971 movie a few minutes ago to learn I had been mispronouncing it all these years. Her name actually pronounced 'kas-ee-uh-pee-uh.
Thanks you Ossie Davis and Shelley Winters.
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Post by Spellbound454 on Sept 14, 2017 17:05:40 GMT -5
I think your dad was right.....thats how we would say it in England. Speaking of Greek myth, I can cope with Calliope but how on earth do you pronounce Mnemosyne . Wouldn' t know where to start.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2017 17:30:10 GMT -5
Yes Cas ee o pee uh.
Off to look up cloaca.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 14, 2017 17:40:07 GMT -5
I think your dad was right.....thats how we would say it in England. Speaking of Greek myth, I can cope with Calliope but how on earth do you pronounce Mnemosyne . Wouldn' t know where to start. I remember using Mnemosyne a dozen times a day when I was a kid. But then I forgot it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2017 15:21:43 GMT -5
Can't think of any words right now that I say wrong but names of people in books, I read wrong or say wrong which I find out later when the movie comes out. I think it's because I just don't really care how to pronounce them as long as I recognize them. Sometimes I'm a long way off.
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Post by teen persuasion on Oct 17, 2017 8:37:28 GMT -5
My parents' phone announces incoming calls, and they ignore all they don't recognize. At dinner last weekend it kept announcing "Call from (awkward pause) Buff-FOLlow Ehnn-Why", over and over and over.
I hate to think of how it would pronounce other local placenames like Cheektowaga, Scajaquada, Chautauqua.
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Post by Tennesseer on Oct 17, 2017 8:47:12 GMT -5
Can't think of any words right now that I say wrong but names of people in books, I read wrong or say wrong which I find out later when the movie comes out. I think it's because I just don't really care how to pronounce them as long as I recognize them. Sometimes I'm a long way off. There are names, places, and other words in books I read which most likely will never be a part of my oral vocabulary. I am ok with not knowing how to pronounce them as long as I know what they mean.
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Post by tskeeter on Oct 17, 2017 12:46:10 GMT -5
So I don't know if it's because I gained so much of my vocabulary through reading, but there are some words I just coded wrong. Some I've corrected over the years. Some I find it hard because I just like how I say it better Anyone else? Calendula, pedagogy and Hermione were all words I read wrong first ... When I was much younger, I couldn't pronounce calliope. I pronounced it exactly the way it was written. Come to think of it, I struggled with a lot of words in English. The language makes no sense and has no rules. A GH could sound like an F or a G or have no sound whatsoever. Plurals were puzzling. If it's one house and two houses, why isn't it one mouse and two mouses? If it one goose and two geese, why isn't it one moose and two meese? If it's one fish and two fish, why isn't it one dish and two dish? It made no sense to me at all. We’ve done that so we can feel superior to folks who speak American English as a second language.
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Post by Tennesseer on Oct 17, 2017 12:48:39 GMT -5
Siobhán (though I now say it right (shiv + awn”))
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Post by Waffle on Oct 19, 2017 12:39:59 GMT -5
Niger. I say the first syllable like the word nigh. I really have to think hard to stop myself from doing that.
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Post by zibazinski on Oct 20, 2017 18:35:54 GMT -5
It’s not pronounced NI-GER? Please tell me it’s not pronounced the other way.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2017 18:39:24 GMT -5
I just had one come up today. I wanted to us assuage in conversation but had to change cause I realized I wasn’t sure how it was pronounced.
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Post by Waffle on Oct 20, 2017 20:27:07 GMT -5
It’s not pronounced NI-GER? Please tell me it’s not pronounced the other way. The first syllable sounds more like the word knee. That's assuming that all of the news people are saying it right. And it rhymes with air.
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Post by zibazinski on Oct 20, 2017 21:28:52 GMT -5
Whew!
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 21, 2017 0:01:06 GMT -5
Niger is Francophone. Therefore, it's pronounced the French way.
Knee-JHAIR.
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